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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.

• News - General News

  

  News - General News

  Interviewing Mirko Albani

  ESA’s Heritage Space Programme Manager describes the goals of the programme, some of the challenges involved in preserving and improving 40 years of historical Earth observation data, and his passion for curating this long-term archive.

• News - General News

  

  News - General News

  Introducing Mirko Albani

  In this short introduction, ESA's Heritage Missions Programme Manager describes what he likes most about ESA's long term archive of satellite mission data and his role in the programme.

• Event - Conference

  

  Event - Conference

  Atmospheric Science Conference 2006

  The 2006 conference was dedicated the theme atmosphere to provide scientists and data users with the opportunity to present first-hand and up-to-date results from their ongoing research activities ESA Mission instruments.

• Activity - Projects

  Activity - Projects

  Dragon 2 Cooperation Programme

  The Dragon Programme is a joint undertaking between ESA and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China designed to encourage increased exploitation of ESA and Chinese Earth Observation satellite data within China.

• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  ERS' Contribution to Altimetry

  Satellite radar altimetry missions have transformed the way we see Earth and its oceans. Using the ranging capability of radars, they measure the surface topography profile along a satellite’s track.

• News - Maintenance News

  

  News - Maintenance News

  ESA data dissemination - Maintenance on 17 August 2021

  Due to a scheduled software patching campaign on 17 August, a series of data dissemination services will experience a short downtime.

• News - Maintenance News

  

  News - Maintenance News

  MERCI (A)ATSR web interface - Maintenance 28 July 2021

  A planned software maintenance activity will affect ESA's MERCI web interface, providing access to ERS and Envisat (A)ATSR data collections, on 28 July.

• News - Data Release news

  

  News - Data Release news

  New reprocessing of datasets celebrates 30 years of ERS

  The ERS programme celebrated its 30th anniversary on 17 July. Today, we are still exploiting ERS data and experts continue to work on improving the altimeter, radiometer and SAR data the programme acquired.

• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  ERS Heritage Data allow for 30 years of science

  At their time of launch thirty years ago, the two ERS satellites were the most sophisticated Earth observation spacecraft ever developed and launched by Europe.

• News - General News

  

  News - General News

  New ERS infographic

  To mark the occasion of the 30th anniversary of ERS, we've released a new infographic summarising the mission.

• Tools - Apps

  

  Tools - Apps

  Heritage Missions app for iOS

  Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.

• Tools - Apps

  

  Tools - Apps

  Heritage Missions app for Android

  Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.

• Document - Proceedings

  

  Document - Proceedings

  3rd-ERS-Symposium-Space-at-the-Service-of-our-Environment.pdf

  Proceedings of the 3rd ERS Symposium 'Space at the Service of our Environment', held on 14-21 March 1997 in Florence, Italy. 3 Volumes.

• Document - Product Specifications

  

  Document - Product Specifications

  wind-scatterometer-processing-requirements-from-sigma-nought-triplets-to-dealiased-wind.pdf

  This document defines the ground processing algorithms for the ERS-1 AMI wind mode (Scatterometer) from the sigma nought triplets to the wind speed and direction, including the wind retrieval and the ambiguity removal processing.

• Document - Proceedings

  

  Document - Proceedings

  2nd-Conference-on-Academic-and-Industrial-Cooperation-in-Space-Research.pdf

  This document describes the proceedings of the second conference on academic and industrial cooperation in space research, held in Graz, Austria, 15-17 November 2000.

• Document - Publication - Paper

  

  Document - Publication - Paper

  Calibration strategy for ERS scatterometer data reprocessing.pdf

  Paper included in the Proceedings of SPIE Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2005 - vol.5977- Brugge (Belgium): Calibration strategy for ERS scatterometer data reprocessing. WS Cal/Val.

• News - Data Release news

  News - Data Release news

  New ERS-2 GOME Level 1 v5.1 dataset available online

  A new GOME Level 1b dataset has been generated for the 16-year mission period bringing relevant quality improvements for the revised calibration approach, compensating aging and instrument degradation, and provide enhanced accessibility.

• News - Data Release news

  News - Data Release news

  GOME TCWV Climate product available online

  GOME Total Column Water Vapour (TCWV) Climate product developed within the ESA GOME-Evolution project is now accessible from the ESA data archives together with the ERS-2 GOME data.

• Instrument - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers

  

  Instrument - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers

  ATSR

  The Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) on board ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission consisted of two instruments, an Infra-Red Radiometer and a Microwave Sounder.