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Discover the latest news on the European Space Agency's Earth Observation activities. Learn all about new data availability and how ESA's missions are performing.
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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
Transforming space data into climate action
ESA’s Earth observation activities are playing a key role in the revitalised global drive to combat climate change.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
ESA data dissemination maintenance – 20 June 2022
A planned software maintenance activity will affect some of ESA's data dissemination services on 20 June 2022.
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News - Events and Proceedings
News - Events and Proceedings
QA4SM Evolution in FRM4SM presented at sixth Soil Moisture Validation Workshop
The use and distribution of EO Soil Moisture (SM) data calls for rigorous, automated quality assessment procedures.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
SMOS reprocessed Sea Surface Wind Speed dataset is now available
The entire SMOS L1B archive has been reprocessed with the latest version of the Sea Surface Wind Speed processor V300 which was deployed into the SMOS wind near real time service in August 2021.
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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
Satellite data central to ocean monitoring
Over 95% of Earth’s water is found in our oceans, and yet sadly, oceans are under stress from climate change and pollution. Monitoring our oceans is vital for Earth’s survival and satellites are the primary means of long-term and independent observation of our vast ocean bodies and their associated coastal zones.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
SMOS L2 Sea Surface Salinity products documentation updates
SMOS L2 Sea Surface Salinity product validation report is now available.
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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
How space data are transforming the global food system
European Earth observation activities are accelerating a data-driven transformation in the agriculture sector that is helping farmers adapt to the dual challenges of climate change and population increase.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
SMOS sea ice thickness reprocessed data now available
The reprocessed SMOS level 3 and 4 sea ice thickness products over the Arctic are now available from the ESA SMOS Dissemination Service.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
SMOS dissemination service maintenance on 10 January 2022
SMOS dissemination service maintenance on 10 January 2022
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News - General News
News - General News
Updated SMOS documentation available
Updated versions of several SMOS data documents are now available.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
SMOS sea ice thickness Arctic winter season 2021/2022 data available
SMOS Sea Ice thickness level 3 and level 4 data products are now available for the Arctic winter season 2021/2022.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
New SMOS Near Real Time Sea Surface Wind Speed new baseline is released
A new version of the SMOS Sea Surface Wind Speed processor - version 300 - was deployed at IFREMER and ESA operational ground segments on 4 August 2021.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
New SMOS Level 1 Near Real Time processing baseline released
A new version of the SMOS level 1 Near Real Time processor - version 724 - was deployed in the operational ground segment on 2 August 2021.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
New SMOS Level 2 Near Real Time Neural Network Soil Moisture baseline is released
A new version of the SMOS level 2 Near Real Time processor - version 300 - was deployed in the operational ground segment on 2 August 2021.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
SMOS level 1 and level 2 products new baseline is now available
New versions of the SMOS processors for level 1 and 2 were deployed in the operational ground segment on 25 May 2021.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Nominal SMOS production has been temporarily discontinued
Due to the on-going deployment of L1 and L2 V7 operational processors, nominal SMOS production has been temporarily discontinued.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
SMOS nominal and near real time production at ESAC will be stopped on the week of the 24 May
Due to the operational deployment of the new Level 1 and Level 2 SMOS processing baseline v7, nominal and near real time production at ESAC will be stopped on the week of the 24 May.
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News - General News
News - General News
New SMOS infographic
Learn more about the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission in our latest infographic
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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
Water mission takes on space weather
Adding to SMOS’ list of talents, new findings show that what was considered noise in the mission’s data can actually be used to monitor solar activity and space weather, which can damage communication and navigation systems.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
ESA OTF dissemination - Maintenance on 23 July 2020
A software maintenance activity affecting the On-The-Fly (OTF) ESA data dissemination service infrastructure has been planned on 23 July 2020.