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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.

• Event - Training

  

  Event - Training

  2nd Advanced Training Course on Ocean Remote Sensing 2009

  This advanced training course focused on ocean remote sensing theory and applications.

• 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.

• Instrument - Radar Altimeters

  

  Instrument - Radar Altimeters

  RA (ERS)

  The Radar Altimeter (RA) was a Ku-band (13.8 GHz) nadir-pointing active microwave sensor, on board ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions, designed to measure echoes from ocean and ice surfaces.

• Mission - Heritage Missions

  

  Mission - Heritage Missions

  ERS

  The ERS programme was composed of two missions, ERS-1 and ERS-2, which together observed the Earth for 20 years, from 1991 to 2011.

• Activity - Quality

  Activity - Quality

  SCIRoCCo

  The SCIRoCCo project is an interdisciplinary cooperation of scatterometry experts aimed at promoting the continuing exploitation of ESA's unique 20 years' worth of ERS Scatterometer data.

• Document - Proceedings

  

  Document - Proceedings

  2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium

  The 2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium was held in Salzburg - Austria from 6 to 10 September 2004. The 2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium provided a forum for investigators to present results of ongoing research project activities and assess the development of applications and services.

• Document - Proceedings

  

  Document - Proceedings

  ERS-Envisat Symposium

  Proceedings of the ERS-Envisat Symposium held from 16-20 October 2000 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Document - Proceedings

  

  Document - Proceedings

  15 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium

  Proceedings of symposium held from 13-18 March 2006 in Venice, Italy.

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  ERS and its Applications - Marine

  Brochure composed of 6 leaflets describing ERS Marine Applications. Includes inserts: Wind and Wave forecasting, Bathymetric mapping, Oil pollution monitoring, Sea-Ice monitoring, Offshore oil and gas exploration, Marine climatology.

• Event - Training

  

  Event - Training

  Advanced Training Course in Ocean Remote Sensing 2011

  Within the framework of the Dragon Programme, a joint collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), ESA and NRSCC are providing a series of advanced thematic training courses on remote sensing applications hosted by university and research institutions in P.R. China.

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  CoReH2O-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-snow-and-ice.pdf

  This report describes the CoReH2O (Cold Regions Hydrology high-resolution Observatory) mission, which was selected for feasibility study in the third cycle of Earth Explorers.

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  Taking-the-Measure-of-Earth-Fifteen-Years-of-Progress-in-Radar-Altimetry.pdf

  This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 128.

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  Further-Achievements-of-the-ERS-Missions.pdf

  This publication shows how with time the various uses of ERS data are developing and consolidating in key areas of science and economic exploitation.