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Mission - Heritage Missions
Seasat
The instrument had the objectives of the determination of sea surface profiles, currents, wind speeds and wave heights.
News - Success Stories
The Earthnet Programme: 40 years of evolution and future challenges
Giuseppe Ottavianelli Title: Current Earthnet TPM Programme Manager Description: Giuseppe Ottavianelli, Earthnet TPM Programme
Activity - Quality
Odin-SMR
The current reprocessing campaign is a cooperation between Chalmers and Molflow.
Mission - Heritage Missions
Seasat Objectives
wealth of information on diverse ocean phenomena such as sea-surface winds and temperatures, surface and internal waves, currents
Event - Workshop
Coastal and Marine Applications of SAR Workshop 2003
Applications were specifically focussed on wind, waves, sea ice, and currents.
Document - General Reference
The Earth Observation Handbook, 2010 Update - Key Tables
This is the 2010 update of the CEOS Earth Observation Handbook. You can browse the live database at http://database.eohandbook.com/ or download the printable PDF of key tables based on the 2010 database contents for a handy reference.
News - Success Stories
Odin celebrates 18 years in orbit
Moreover, SMR is currently the only instrument providing global measurements of nitric oxide, which is an important species
Document - Technical Note
SeaSat-SAR-IPF-Data-and-Processing-Issues.pdf
This document describes the rehabilitation and reprocessing of ESA’s historic SeaSat raw data archive.
Document - General Reference
Heritage Missions brochure
This brochure describes ESA's Heritage Space Programme and includes infographics describing some of the missions in the programme.
Document - General Reference
PREMIER-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-atmospheric-composition.pdf
The objective of the PREMIER mission is to quantify the processes controlling global atmospheric composition in the mid/upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (5-25 km height range), which is a region of particular importance for climate change.
Document - General Reference
BIOMASS-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-forest-biomass.pdf
The objective of the BIOMASS Mission is to determine the global distribution of forest biomass by reducing the uncertainty in the calculation of carbon stock and fluxes associated with the terrestrial biosphere.
News - Thematic area articles
Space data help to unravel the complexities of Earth’s atmosphere
mission delivered unprecedented insight into the global distributions of methane and carbon dioxide, helping to underpin current
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.
News - Success Stories
Atmosphere-studying Odin mission enjoys ongoing success
Another research project – which is currently being completed – focuses on the eruption of the Hunga Tonga submarine volcano
Document - General Reference
The International Charter- Space and Major Disasters
The Charter is an important step forward in linking the needs of disaster and relief organisations with space technology solutions to help mitigate the effects of disaster on human life, property and the environment.
News - Success Stories
A stroll through Heritage Missions
In the current digital era, this confirms ESA’s commitment to maintain heritage data and keep information available, in support
Document - General Reference
Third Party Missions Brochure
This brochure summarises ESA's Third Party Missions programme, providing a timeline and examples of content related to some of the missions.
Document - Product Specifications
JERS-SeaSat-SAR-Level-1-products-format-specifications.pdf
This document defines the Envisat and GEOTIFF/TIFF format of the L1 products generated from JERS/SeaSat SAR sensor data by the ESA JERS SAR Instrument Processing Facility.
News - Data Release news
Release of Odin SMR reprocessed data
data was used as input in the ESA MesosphEO project Extensive validation against correlative satellite instruments The current