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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
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
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
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 - 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
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
News - Success Stories
21 Dec 2021Retrieving Snow Depth Over Sea Ice Using Dual-Frequency Altimetric Measurements
which are only available from the launch of SARAL in 2013, have been shown to provide a better climatological solution than the snow depth climatology currently
News - Data Release news
20 Oct 2020Systematic swath elevation and monthly DEMs over the Antarctica Ice Sheet margin from CryoSat 2
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
16 Nov 2020A Closer Look at CRYO2ICE Manoeuvres
The new in-sync measurements will also help map snow over the poles and advance our understanding of currents in polar oceans, with further applications
News - General News
7 May 2020Systematic swath elevation and monthly DEMs over the Greenland Ice Sheet margin from CryoSat
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
27 May 2021CryoTEMPO EOLIS and Operation IceBridge Data Added to Cryo2Ice Coincident Data Explorer
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
8 Sept 2022New CryoVEx campaign datasets released
CRYO2ICE has been performed since 2020, offering near simultaneous data from the two satellites over the same locations in the Arctic until 2022, and currently
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.