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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 - Events and Proceedings
2 Dec 2022SMOS data advances space weather and ionospheric research
Title: Tracking the solar activity cycle using SMOS data Description: This graph shows the “rise” of our current solar activity cycle from L-band solar
News - Data Release news
18 Jan 2022SMOS sea ice thickness reprocessed data now available
from the reprocessed level 1 baseline v724 and with the latest level 3 and 4 sea ice thickness processors baseline v3.3 and v204 respectively, which are currently
News - Success Stories
7 Sept 2022Satellite data predicts lower wheat crop yield
Title: Current drought situation in Ebro basin Description: The SMOS soil-moisture-based drought monitor is updated monthly and tracked the progression
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 - 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 - Events and Proceedings
21 Oct 2019Special event for 10th anniversary of SMOS
uncertainty estimation Re-processing of measurements and generation of FCDRs and TCDRs SMOS as part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Synergies with current
News - Success Stories
3 Nov 2022SMOS data improve estimates of rainfall in Africa
Currently, however, only two precipitation products use this information.
News - Thematic area articles
2 Mar 2022How space data are transforming the global food system
ICEYE, for example, is a constellation currently consisting of 11 X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites – with seven more to be added by the end of
News - Thematic area articles
30 June 2022Transforming space data into climate action
By combining high-quality data from both current and previous missions, scientists are improving their understanding of the long-term changes impacting
News - Thematic area articles
16 Aug 2022Satellites reveal changes to Earth’s icy zones
By combining information collected by current and previous missions, researchers can estimate how the cryosphere is evolving over decades.
News - Events and Proceedings
13 June 2022Highlights from Living Planet Symposium
ESA will continue to pursue recovery and reprocessing of heritage data to extend time series and complement data from current and future missions.”
News - Thematic area articles
24 Jan 2023Satellites expand research on Space Weather and Sun-Earth Interactions
This research – which is currently being completed – aims to explore how the process produces nitrogen oxide in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere which