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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 - Earth Explorers

  

  Mission - Earth Explorers

  Swarm

  Swarm is dedicated to creating a highly detailed survey of the Earth’s geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution as well as the electric field in the atmosphere using a constellation of three identical satellites.

• 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.

• Activity - Quality

  Activity - Quality

  TIRO

  Topside Ionosphere Radio Observations from multiple LEO-missions (TIRO) project will provide two measurements from onboard instruments of LEO satellite missions: TEC (Total Electron Content) derived from GNSS signals, and electron density derived from KBR (K-Band Ranging) system observations.

• Activity - Quality

  Activity - Quality

  Swarm LP Ion Drift and Effective Mass

  The Swarm LP Ion Drift and Effective Mass (SLIDEM) project will augment Swarm's ability to measure the along-track component of ion drift, and assess the composition of ionospheric ions.

• Activity - Quality

  Activity - Quality

  Plasmapause Related boundaries in the topside Ionosphere as derived from Swarm Measurements

  In the project, Plasmapause Related boundaries in the topside Ionosphere as determined from Swarm Measurements (PRISM), the team develop products that characterise position of the plasmapause related phenomena in the topside ionosphere.

• Activity - Quality

  Activity - Quality

  Ionospheric signature of auroral and subauroral fast flows

  The ionospheric signature of auroral and subauroral fast flows project is a Living Planet Fellowship research project that aims to advance the understanding of narrow regions of fast flow in the auroral and subauroral regions.

• Activity - Quality

  Activity - Quality

  SIEMIC

  Swarm Investigation of the Energetics of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (SIEMIC) project is a Living Planet Fellowship research project to discover how much energy flows from the magnetosphere to the ionosphere at which scales into each hemisphere?

• 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.