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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
10 Nov 2020Publication of Coastal Current Intrusions from Satellite Altimetry
A new study entitled “Coastal current intrusions from satellite altimetry” has just been published in the journal Remote Sensing.
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 - 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 - 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
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - General News
21 Mar 2023ESA's excellent Earth Explorer missions extended to 2025
Acting like the spinning conductor in a bicycle dynamo, it generates electrical currents and thus the continuously changing electromagnetic field.
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 - Data Release news
14 Apr 2023Back-processed data from 2010 now available for CryoTEMPO-EOLIS Baseline 2
2010 until now are: Alaska Arctic Canada North High Mountain Asia (Central/South East/South West Asia) Russian Arctic Svalbard Iceland Regions that are currently
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 - Data Release news
30 Jan 2023New version of the SMOS-CryoSat level 4 sea ice thickness product is now available
The current version 205 replaces the previous baseline version 204.
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
News - Data Release news
14 Feb 2023New CryoSat Ice Baseline-E 2011 reprocessed data now available
The Ice Baseline-E Reprocessing campaign is currently underway to reprocess all CryoSat ice products from July 2010 - August 2021 with the latest Baseline-E
News - Data Release news
17 May 2023New CryoSat Ice Baseline-E 2018 and 2019 reprocessed data – available now!
The Ice Baseline-E Reprocessing campaign is currently underway to reprocess all CryoSat ice products from July 2010 - August 2021 with the latest Baseline-E