News - Success Stories

CryoSat-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

Document - Technical Note

ERS-2 Scatterometer- Mission Performances and Current Reprocessing Achievements

News - Operational News

CryoSat Daily Quality Control delays

CryoSat Quality Control (QC) is currently experiencing delays due to a temporary anomaly.

Document - General Reference

Earth-Explorers-Satellites-to-understand-our-changing-Earth.pdf

This eight-page brochure provides an overview of the Earth Explorers currently in orbit and those under development.

Document - Proceedings

Emerging-Scatterometer-Applications-from-Research-to-Operations.pdf

The objective of the Workshop, held on 5-7 October 1998 at ESA-ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands), was to review the current applications of scatterometer

News - Operational News

CryoSat 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

Document - General Reference

SCI-PUB-14-0002-v01-WMO-report-1.0.pdf

The ERS Scatterometers in the Global Climate Observing System report describes the current and anticipated relationship and role of the ERS scatterometers

News - Success Stories

CRYO2ICE 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

Document - General Reference

Satellite-Data-in-Hydrology-Experience-with-ERS.pdf

This document is aimed at both current and potential users of ERS data in hydrology.

News - Success Stories

CryoTEMPO-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

Document - Proceedings

3rd International Symposium on Retrieval of Bio and Geophysical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications

This Symposium provided a snapshot of where we currently stand in exploiting SAR data to understand geophysical and biophysical processes.

Activity - Instrument characterisation and algorithm studies

ESA satellites and instruments calibration landing page

not available online Instrument Monitoring: Information currently not available online Data Outages: Information currently not available online Relevant

Instrument - Scatterometers

SAR (ERS) Processor Releases

Processor Releases It should be noted that for SAR, each product ordered is processed directly from the raw data, using the current version of the SAR

Instrument - Imaging Radars

PALSAR

A small percentage of ALOS PALSAR products processed by the current installed ESA IPF are affected by a known quality issue; IPF failures due to PRF changes

Instrument - Imaging Radars

PALSAR Processor Releases

Processor Releases The current ALOS PALSAR IPF integrated within the ESA On-The-Fly system is v4.16p9, installed on 24 January 2017.

News - Data Release news

CryoSat 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

CryoSat 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

CryoSat 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.

Event - Workshop

SEASAR 2006

Assess wave mode user requirements Formulate recommendations for algorithm and new products development To present ESA studies results on wind, wave and currents

News - Thematic area articles

How 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