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MISSIONS

Explore the European Space Agency's Earth Observation satellite missions. Learn all about ESA's dedicated Earth Explorers or collaborations with other agencies through the Third Party Missions programme.

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    SMOS product availability

    + NIR + Long     LO + FTT     LO + Electrical Stability     LO + NIR + Long + FTT     LO + Short     LO + Long + Short Current

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    PALSAR

    A small percentage of ALOS-1 PALSAR products processed by the current installed ESA IPF are affected by a known quality issue

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    PALSAR Processor Releases

    The current ALOS-1 PALSAR IPF integrated within the ESA On-The-Fly system is v4.16p9, installed on 24 January 2017.

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    ASAR Processor Releases

    August 2009 5.03L03 9 October 2009 5.04 17 September 2010 6.00 16 December 2011 6.02 30 April 2012 6.03 3 July 2015 (current

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    SMOS Objectives

    SMOS Science The SMOS mission is a direct response to the current lack of global observations of soil moisture and ocean

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    MIPAS Quality Control Reports

    Maps are currently available only for a limited part of the mission.

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    Products Availability L0

    The current list of gaps in the AATSR Level 0 dataset is available here.

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    SCIAMACHY Auxiliary Data

    In these cases, default values for the calibration parameters (Leakage current, Pixel-to-Pixel Gain and Etalon, Spectral

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    Products Information

    For an optimal exploitation of the current SMOS L2 data set V620 consult the read-me-first notes available for V620 soil

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    Products Availability L0

    Last update on 29 March 2017 - Issue 1.3 Year Total orbits Products available Percentage of availability Products currently

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    AATSR Auxiliary Data

    The Fourth Reprocessing is the first to use the FAST processor (v2.0.5) and so there is currently no historical information

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    PALSAR Quality Control Reports

    Find out more Quality Disclaimer A small percentage of ALOS-1 PALSAR products processed by the current installed ESA IPF

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    SMOS Overview

    Mission Background The SMOS mission is a direct response to the current lack of global observations of soil moisture and

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    SCIAMACHY Quality Control Reports

    Maps are currently available only for a limited part of the mission. Read More

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    Products Availability L1

    SCIAMACHY Level 1b products version 7.04-W Number of Orbits Year Planned Available Not recoverable* Failed or Missing Current

  • Mission - Third Party Missions

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    ALOS-1 Mission Objectives

    Oceanography and coastal zone-related research (oil spill, high-resolution DEM) Coastal zones, sea surface wind, wave height, wave current

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    AATSR Products Information

    Third Reprocessing Dataset Information Third Reprocessing products are currently available on the NEODC archive via CEDA.

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    ASAR Products Information

    Higher level products (Level 2) can then be derived from L1 products; however, this is currently only done with Wave mode

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    Products Availability L2

    7.03 Last update on 25 May 2016 - Issue 1.0 Year Total orbits Products available Percentage of availability L0 products currently

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    Product Anomalies L2

    The status of the SCIAMACHY consolidated data sets currently available at D-PAC can be accessed here.