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News - Thematic area articles
Global understanding of Earth's land surfaces greatly boosted by satellite data
ESA perform land surface monitoring with a range of instruments onboard satellites acquiring optical and radar data. Collections of data from these missions are freely available for research purposes.
News - Thematic area articles
Satellites investigate Earth’s terrestrial hydrosphere
ESA’s Earth observation satellites are playing a leading role in furthering our understanding of how Earth’s water cycle is being influenced by humankind.
News - Thematic area articles
Satellites reveal changes to Earth’s icy zones
ESA’s Earth observation activities are helping scientists investigate the influence of climate change on widespread ice-losses across the planet.
Event - Training
EO Summer School 3
ESA's series of summer schools, on Monitoring of the Earth System, aims to promote the exploitation of Earth observation data.
Event - Conference
Living Planet Symposium 2022
Learn about the 2022 edition of ESA's Living Planet Symposium.
News - Thematic area articles
Transforming space data into climate action
ESA’s Earth observation activities are playing a key role in the revitalised global drive to combat climate change.
News - Thematic area articles
Satellite data boost global understanding of land surface
Understanding our changing land surface is essential in the study of climate change. Satellites are used to monitor changes to the material that covers Earth’s surface, so-called land cover, such as vegetation and water.
Event - Training
3rd Advanced Training Course on Ocean Remote Sensing 2013
The 3rd Advanced Training Course on Ocean Remote Sensing was held from 23 to 27 September 2013 in Cork, at the National Maritime College of Ireland.
Document - Proceedings
Dragon Programme Mid-Term Results
Proceedings of the 2005 Dragon Symposium held on 27 June - 1 July 2005 in Santorini, Greece.
Document - General Reference
Earth-Observation-from-Space-supporting-Biodiversity-Conservation.pdf
This brochure provides an overview of the ESA-funded Diversity project, which aims to demonstration the contribution Earth observation makes towards monitoring the trends and status of different marine and terrestrial ecosystems relevant to diversity.
Document - General Reference
Earth-Observation-Applications-for-the-Aquaculture-Industry.pdf
This flyer describes the applications of Earth Observation for aquaculture, specifically the Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) system of Hatfield Consultants Ltd.
Document - General Reference
The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Topography Mission
This report for assessment addresses the Topography mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.
Document - General Reference
Application-of-satellite-remote-sensing-to-developing-countries.pdf
This booklet is a preliminary copy of the first set of viewgraphs being prepared by Satellite Observing Systems (SOS) for ESA to support Agencies activities for promoting the use of Earth observation data from space in various environmental disciplines and applications for developing countries.
Document - General Reference
Earth-Observation-Services-Today-Using-Radar-from-Space.pdf
This booklet provides descriptions of EO services available today from specialist providers for the marine environment e.g. CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites] and NERSC (Nansen Environmental and RemoteSensing Centre], Ocean Numerics, ARGOSS, MeteoMer and Satellite Observing Systems (SOS].
Document - General Reference
Sentinel-1-The-Radar-Mission-for-GMES-Land-and-Sea-Services.pdf
This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 131.
Document - General Reference
Globcolour-A-Precursor-to-the-GMES-Marine-Core-Service-Ocean-Colour-Thematic-Assembly-Centre.pdf
This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 132.
Document - General Reference
Remote-Sensing-and-marine-ecology.pdf
This volume collects the lecture notes of the training course on Marine Remote Sensing and its applications, held on 15-26 June 1998 at ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. The lectures were held in italian: the book is available in italian only.
Document - General Reference
Medspiration-A-Precursor-to-the-GMES-Marine-Core-Service-Sea-Surface-Thematic.pdf
This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr. 132.
Document - General Reference
Healing-the-Earth-Earth-Observation-Supporting-International-Environmental Conventions.pdf
This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 128.
Document - General Reference
SMOS-ESAs-Water-Mission-Fact-sheet.pdf
This document provided a series of information on the SMOS mission.