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• Mission - Earth Explorers

  

  Mission - Earth Explorers

  Aeolus

  The Aeolus mission provides global observations of wind profiles from space to improve the quality of weather forecasts, and to advance our understanding of atmospheric dynamics and climate processes.

• Mission - Third Party Missions

  

  Mission - Third Party Missions

  PROBA-1

  PROBA-1 is a technology demonstration satellite that later became an operational Earth observation mission.

• Mission - Heritage Missions

  

  Mission - Heritage Missions

  Envisat

  Envisat was ESA's successor to ERS. Envisat carried ten instruments aboard for a wide range of Earth observing fields. The mission was operational from 2002 to 2012.

• News - Scientific Highlights

  

  News - Scientific Highlights

  Traceability of AERONET-EUROPE to the GAWPFR WMO reference for Aerosol Optical Depth

  Within the IDEAS-QA4EO ESA project a precision filter radiometer (PFR) travelling standard was installed at the European calibration site of AERONET to provide continuous traceability of aerosol optical depth measurements to the World reference maintained at Davos through a PFR Triad.

• Mission - Copernicus Sentinels

  

  Mission - Copernicus Sentinels

  Copernicus Sentinel-5P

  The Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor mission is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere.

• News - General News

  News - General News

  Introducing the Newest ESA Third Party Missions

  ESA's Earth Observation Programme Board has unanimously approved the integration of the Federated Satellite Systems (FSSCat) mission, the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) instrument on-board the GEO-KOMPSAT-2B satellite and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, as Third Party Missions.

• News - General News

  

  News - General News

  New Campaign datasets available

  A new set of datasets is available, acquired during airborne campaigns conducted between 2014 and 2019

• Campaign

  

  Campaign

  EPATAN 2016

  The main scientific objectives of EPATAN 2016 (Earthcare PrepAraTion cAmpaigN) were derived from the scientific objectives of EarthCARE.

• Data - Data Description

  Data - Data Description

  GOSAT-2 TANSO FTS-2 and CAI-2 full archive and new products

  The TANSO-FTS-2 (Thermal And Near infrared Sensor for carbon Observation - Fourier Transform Spectrometer-2) instrument is an high-resolution 5-...

• Data - Data Description

  Data - Data Description

  AVHRR Level-1B Local Area Coverage Imagery

  This collection is composed of AVHRR L1B products (1.1 km) reprocessed from the NOAA and Metop AVHRR sensors data acquired at the University of ...

• News - Operational News

  News - Operational News

  Aeolus set for Instrument Telescope Refocussing exercise

  Aeolus’s telescope requires periodic collimation and refocussing. To this end, the Instrument Telescope Refocussing activity aims to improve the radiometric performance of the Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument (ALADIN)’s telescope by optimizing the throughput at the field stop, the smallest aperture where the return light has to pass. This is done through a change of the temperature settings on the telescope.

• News - General News

  

  News - General News

  Around the world in eight balloons with Strateole-2

  Strateole-2 is a French-US project supported by ESA that uses CNES superpressure balloons drifting around the globe to study the climate processes in the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL) and the lower stratosphere, helping Aeolus validation activities along the way.

• Document - Product Handbook

  Document - Product Handbook

  AVHRR-Handbook.pdf

  The AVHRR user handbook provides details about the content of the consolidated and harmonised data set archived at ESA facilities.

• News - General News

  News - General News

  Forty years of heritage data highlight warming European lakes

  In the last decade, climate change has taken centre stage in both the public and scientific arenas, as increasingly extreme weather and human impact on the environment have become more apparent.

• Activity - Quality

  Activity - Quality

  Aeolus DISC

  The Aeolus DISC is the core element in ESA's data quality framework for the Aeolus mission, comprised of an international expert consortium to study and improve the data quality of Aeolus products.

• News - General News, Scientific Highlights

  News - General News, Scientific Highlights

  Aerosol spread from Australian fires

  Ferocious bushfires have been sweeping across Australia since September 2019, fuelled by record-breaking temperatures, drought and wind. The country has always experienced fires, but this season has been horrific.

• News - Scientific Highlights

  News - Scientific Highlights

  Satellites providing clear picture of greenhouse gases

  With increasing levels of greenhouse gases causing our climate to change, it is important to understand them.

• Data - Data Description

  Data - Data Description

  GOSAT TANSO FTS and CAI full archive and new products

  The TANSO-FTS instrument on-board GOSAT satellite features high optical throughput, fine spectral resolution, and a wide spectral coverage (from...

• Data - Data Description

  Data - Data Description

  Envisat MERIS Full Resolution - Level 1 [MER_FRS_1P/ME_1_FRG]

  The MERIS Level 1 Full Resolution (FR) product contains the Top of Atmosphere (TOA) upwelling spectral radiance measures. The in-band reference ...

• Data - Data Description

  Data - Data Description

  Envisat AATSR Level 3 LST products from UOL [ATS_LST_3P]

  The recommended AATSR Level 3 products for Land Surface Temperature (LST) applications are the Level 3 products that have been produced by the U...