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Discover the latest news on the European Space Agency's Earth Observation activities. Learn all about new data availability and how ESA's missions are performing.
News - Success Stories
30 Oct 2020CryoSat-2 Data Used to Measure Ionospheric Currents
the CryoSat-2 and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites can be used to diagnose weak low-/mid-latitude ionospheric currents
News - Operational News
15 Oct 2020CryoSat Daily Quality Control delays
CryoSat Quality Control (QC) is currently experiencing delays due to a temporary anomaly.
News - Operational News
27 July 2021CryoSat Daily Quality Control (QC) Ocean Processor Delay
CryoSat Quality Control (QC) and Daily Report generation for Ocean Processor products is currently experiencing a delay due to maintenance of the QC tool
News - Success Stories
12 July 2022CRYO2ICE over Antarctica: revealing further insight on changing ice
The CryoSat-2 satellite is currently being aligned with ICESat-2 over Antarctica, unlocking fresh possibilities in the wealth of new information being
News - Success Stories
24 Nov 2021CryoTEMPO-EOLIS Products Now Available for Iceland, Svalbard, and the Canadian Arctic
Land-ice monitoring via Earth Observation methods in general, and altimetry in particular, are essential for tracking the current status of ice volume
News - Data Release news
7 Aug 2019CryoSat new Ice NRT products now available
The new Ice NRT products replace the current products, and can be downloaded from the SIR_NRT folder on the CryoSat Science Server.
News - Operational News
5 July 2019CryoSat new Geographical Mask in support to the French/US SWOT mission
With respect to the previous version, the new SWOT areas are reported in yellow in the figure (overlapping the current 3.9 mask version in grey).
News - Data Release news
1 Mar 2019CryoSat Ocean Baseline C reprocessed data available
The reprocessing activity is currently progressing and we are planning to publish batches of six months of data every 20 days.
News - Thematic area articles
29 Sept 2022How satellite data help to shape society
Title: Current drought situation in Ebro basin Description: The SMOS soil-moisture-based drought monitor is updated monthly and tracked the progression
News - Data Release news
11 May 2020New CryoSat BUFR products for the meteorological community
The current CryoSat Ocean Processor is able to generate Near-real-time Ocean Products (NOP) with a latency of 2-3 hours after sensing.
News - Operational News
3 Dec 2020CryoSat Science Server parallel FTP sessions reminder
Considering that data access is also currently open to anonymous users, who cannot be directly contacted, be advised that aggressive download practices
News - Operational News
10 Feb 2022Delay in the production of Cryo-TEMPO EOLIS operational data
In particular, the following datasets are currently not available on the Science Server: along-track point products: missing data for all regions from
News - General News
10 July 2020CRYO2ICE is now on Earth Online
The resulting data will have applications in the fields of sea ice, land ice, polar ocean currents, inland water and atmosphere.
News - Data Release news
31 May 2019CryoSat Ice Baseline D data products now available
Currently data is available on the Science Server in a continuous temporal sequence of the Baseline C data using the same directories.
News - Operational News
12 Sept 2019CryoSat - Geographical Mode Mask 4.0 released
SAR Interferometric (SARIn) (purple) mode is used over steeply sloping ice-sheet margins, over some geostrophic ocean currents and over small ice caps
News - Operational News
9 Mar 2021Recent CryoSat NRT Products Quality Issue Fixed
.* If you are currently downloading all NRT products published on the Science Server automatically, we recommend that you check your settings as the filenames
News - Data Release news
22 July 2021New reprocessing of datasets celebrates 30 years of ERS
For each surface, the experts will use our current knowledge acquired over 30 years of experience, to improve the ERS altimetric and radiometric data as
News - Thematic area articles
31 Mar 2022Satellite data central to ocean monitoring
are equipped with various microwave monitoring instruments, optical imagers, and infrared radiometers, which can map ocean variables related to ocean currents
News - Success Stories
25 Nov 2021COP26 fuels interest in satellite data
However, satellite data from operational and non-operational ESA missions provide long-term Earth observational records, giving essential context to current
News - Success Stories
19 May 2022New one-stop-shop for ESA and NASA altimetry data
Currently, the available standard combined products are: SAR Sea Ice (IS2 ATL07 vs CS2 SAR mode L2) – available for Arctic and Antarctic SARIn Land Ice