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• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  PAZ - Spain's radar success

  One way of collecting images in unfavourable weather is to use Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). PAZ is one such Earth observation mission capable of delivering all-weather imagery thanks to its X-band SAR.

• News - General News

  

  News - General News

  PAZ infographic

  Learn more about the PAZ mission, a Spanish X-Band SAR satellite and part of ESA's Third Party Missions programme, in our latest infographic.

• News - Data Release news

  

  News - Data Release news

  New imaging modes added to PAZ collection

  Two new imaging modes, Wide ScanSAR and Staring Spotlight, have been added to the PAZ offering and are now available to users for research and application development following submission of a project proposal subject to evaluation and acceptance by ESA and the data owner.

• Event - Workshop

  

  Event - Workshop

  Space and the Arctic 2009 Workshop

  Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at an unprecedented rate. This workshop looked at the needs and challenges of working and living in the rapidly changing Arctic and explore how space-based services might help to meet those needs.

• News - General News

  

  News - General News

  Third Party Missions infographic

  ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of almost 50 satellite missions, which are owned by organisations around the world. ESA has agreements with these organisations to acquire, process, and distribute data from their missions

• News - Events and Proceedings

  

  News - Events and Proceedings

  Φ-Week Triumphs

  In its fourth edition, Φ-Week presented the scientific community with amazing opportunities and projects—thus running alongside innovation at 360 degrees.

• 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 POES and Metop AVHRR sensors data acquired at the Universit...

• Data - Data Description

  

  Data - Data Description

  PAZ Full Archive and New Tasking

  PAZ Image Products can be acquired in eight image modes with flexible resolutions (from 1 m to 40 m) and scene sizes. Thanks to different polari...

• 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 - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  Mission continuity

  Long-term availability of Earth observation data from a given instrument is crucial to many data users and their research—but just how does it work?

• 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.

• Campaign

  

  Campaign

  BACCHUS-DOC

  The BACCHUS-DOC Radar and Optical Campaign was an area mapping project of vineyards near Frascati (Italy). ESA required high resolution geo-referenced airborne SAR data of different wavelength and polarisation (preferably polarimetric).

• Activity - Quality

  Activity - Quality

  EDAP

  The ESA Earthnet Data Assessment Pilot (EDAP) project will perform assessments for various missions to ensure the delivered data is fit for purpose.

• News - General News

  News - General News

  Europe's third polar-orbiting weather satellite lofted into orbit

  The third Metop satellite, Metop-C, has been launched on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

• News - General News

  News - General News

  Metop-C ready for big day

  With liftoff set for 7 November, the latest Metop weather satellite has been rolled out to the launch pad and positioned on the Soyuz rocket.

• News - General News

  News - General News

  Counting down to Metop-C

  Teams at ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Germany have been training for months in preparation for next week's launch of Metop-C.

• News - Success Stories

  News - Success Stories

  Metop: The power of three

  Metop-A was launched in 2006 and Metop-B in 2012, and now it is time for Metop-C.

• Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions

  

  Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions

  SPOT 7

  SPOT 7 (Azersky), like all the SPOT missions, is aimed at supplying high-resolution, wide-area optical imagery.

• Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions

  

  Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions

  SPOT 6

  SPOT 6, like all the SPOT missions, is aimed at supplying high-resolution, wide-area optical imagery.

• Document - Newsletter

  

  Document - Newsletter

  Earth-Online-Newsletter-18-February-2022.pdf

  This issue of the Earth Online Newsletter covers a selection of the latest news and events from ESA.