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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 - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  How Envisat helped to shape global understanding of Earth’s systems

  Twenty years have passed since a ground-breaking European spacecraft designed to deliver unprecedented insight into the planet’s changing environment was lofted into orbit.

• 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 - 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Activity - General activities

  Activity - General activities

  GSCB and LTDP

  The Copernicus programme is based on a fleet of European Earth observation satellites, built and operated by ESA, member states and commercial entities. Copernicus will also offer data from non-European satellites.

• Instrument - Laser Ranging

  

  Instrument - Laser Ranging

  LRR ERS

  The Laser Retro-Reflector (LRR), on board the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions, was an optical device for accurate satellite tracking from the ground to support instrument data evaluation.

• 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.

• Instrument - Scatterometers

  

  Instrument - Scatterometers

  WS

  The Wind Scatterometer (WS) instrument, on board the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions, obtained information on wind speed and direction over the sea surface.

• Data - Data Catalogues

  Data - Data Catalogues

  ESA PDGS Data Cube

  ESA's new service Data cube is now available and accessible with a valid EO Sign In account

• Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

  

  Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

  ECMWF Report on ERS-2 scatterometer - cycle 74

  ECMWF Report on ers-2 scatterometer for cycle 74

• Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

  

  Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

  ECMWF Report on ERS-2 scatterometer - cycle 53

  ECMWF Report on ers-2 scatterometer for cycle 53

• Tools - Other, Visualisation

  Tools - Other, Visualisation

  EVDC Orbit Prediction Tool

  The EVDC Orbit Prediction and Overpass Tool generates and visualises satellite's overpasses.

• Data - Data Description

  

  Data - Data Description

  ERS-2 SCATTEROMETER Surface Soil Moisture Time Series and Orbit product in High and Nominal Resolution [SSM.H/N.TS - SSM.H/N]

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

• 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...