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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
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
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
News - Events and Proceedings
1 June 2023GLOC 2023: Democratising data access key to climate action
Currently, more than a trillion tonnes of ice is lost each year.
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
News - Operational News
13 Sept 2023CryoSat Orbit under Investigation
The issue is currently being looked into and CryoSat users will be kept updated accordingly.
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
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 - Success Stories
25 Nov 2021COP26 fuels interest in satellite data
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
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
News - Data Release news
23 Mar 2023New CryoSat Ice Baseline-E 2012 and 2013 Reprocessed Data – Available now!
The Ice Baseline-E Reprocessing campaign is currently underway to reprocess all CryoSat ice products from July 2010 - August
News - Success Stories
21 Dec 2021Retrieving Snow Depth Over Sea Ice Using Dual-Frequency Altimetric Measurements
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
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
News - Success Stories
31 Aug 2023New CryoSat data to boost understanding of the oceans
The dataset – presented in the Nature Research journal Scientific Data and currently available for download – provides a
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
News - General News
23 Feb 2023Stunning new features for ESA and NASA altimetry portal cs2eo.org
Currently available polygons include a selection of glacier outlines from the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) Version 6,
News - Data Release news
20 Sept 2023Global glacier mass change data now available from CryoSat
The Earth Explorer is the only radar altimetry satellite currently capable of monitoring the change of all land ice regions
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