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• 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.

• 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 - 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.

• 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 - 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.

• Instrument - Positioning/Navigation

  

  Instrument - Positioning/Navigation

  PRARE

  The Precise Range And Range-Rate Equipment (PRARE) was a microwave tracking system on board the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions.

• Instrument - Scatterometers

  

  Instrument - Scatterometers

  SAR (ERS)

  The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument aboard ERS-1 and ERS-2 was capable of high precision change detection of surface heights.

• Data - Data Description

  

  Data - Data Description

  ERS PRARE Precise Orbit Product (ERS.ORB.POD/ERS.ORB/PRC)

  The precise orbit results from a data reduction process in which all available tracking data (Single-Lens Reflex, radar altimeter crossovers, PR...

• Data - Data Description

  

  Data - Data Description

  ERS-1/2 SCATTEROMETER Nominal Resolution back-scattering measurements, Ocean Wind field [UWI]

  The ERS data reprocessed with the ASPS facility is also available in the UWI format to maintain the compatibility with the FD (Fast Delivery) pr...

• Data - Data Description

  

  Data - Data Description

  ERS-1/2 SCATTEROMETER Ocean Wind field and Sea Ice probability [ASPS20.H/ASPS20.N]

  Surface soil moisture records are derived from the backscatter coefficient measured by the Scatterometer on-board the European Remote Sensing sa...

• 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.

• Data - Campaigns data

  Data - Campaigns data

  Request campaigns data

  Request data acquired during airborne campaigns, many of which were conducted in support of ESA missions.

• 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 - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  2013 Dragon 3 Brochure

  The 2013 Dragon 3 cooperation brochure presents the activities undertaken since the formal start of programme in June 2012.

• 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

  1st MSG RAO Workshop

  Proceedings of the workshop organised by ESA and EUMETSAT held in CNR of Bologna, Italy in May 2000.

• Document - Proceedings

  

  Document - Proceedings

  ERS-Envisat Symposium

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

• Document - Technical Note

  

  Document - Technical Note

  Study of a method to de-alias winds from ERS-1 data

  Final report of ESA contract CONTRACT 6074/87/GP.

• News - Data Release news

  News - Data Release news

  Updated Precise Orbit data (POD) for the full ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission available

  The Precise Orbit files (ERS.ORB.POD) for the entire ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission periods have been reprocessed with up-to-date standards.