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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.

• Activity - Projects

  Activity - Projects

  Dragon 2 Cooperation Programme

  The Dragon 2 Programme focussed on the exploitation of ESA, ESA's Third Party Missions and Chinese Earth observation data for science and applications development in land, ocean and atmospheric applications.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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...

• 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...

• Data - Data Description

  

  Data - Data Description

  ADAM Surface Reflectance Database v4.0

  ADAM enables generating typical monthly variations of the global Earth surface reflectance at 0.1° spatial resolution (Plate Carree projection) ...

• 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.