News - Success Stories

10 years of Envisat data help to illuminate ocean processes

A decade after Envisat beamed its final image to the planet, the pioneering ESA mission is continuing to foster improved understanding of Earth’s systems.

Document - Proceedings

1st MSG RAO Workshop

Proceedings of the workshop organised by ESA and EUMETSAT held in CNR of Bologna, Italy in May 2000.

Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

1st-Final-report-Long-term-validation-of-SCIAMACHY-Data.pdf

This document describes the work packages, and focusses on the newer results obtained in the second half of phase A of ESRIN contract No. 18809/05-I-LG. This work is focussing on the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard Envisat.

Document - Proceedings

2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium

The 2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium was held in Salzburg - Austria from 6 to 10 September 2004. The 2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium provided a forum for investigators to present results of ongoing research project activities and assess the development of applications and services.

Document - General Reference

2007 Dragon Symposium - Abstract book

The Dragon Programme concerns the exploitation of BSA and Chinese BO data particularly from the ERS and Envisat satellites for monitoring and mapping applications in 16 thematic application areas in the P.R. China. The abstracts presented herein detail the results achieved since the Lijiang Symposium that was held in July 2006 in P.R. China.

Document - General Reference

2013 Dragon 3 Brochure

The 2013 Dragon 3 cooperation brochure presents the activities undertaken since the formal start of programme in June 2012.

Document - Proceedings

2nd-Conference-on-Academic-and-Industrial-Cooperation-in-Space-Research.pdf

This document describes the proceedings of the second conference on academic and industrial cooperation in space research, held in Graz, Austria, 15-17 November 2000.

Document - Proceedings

2nd-MSG-RAO-Workshop.pdf

Proceedings of the 2nd MSG RAO Workshop, held on 9-10 September 2004 in Salzburg, Austria

Document - Proceedings

2nd-Workshop-on-the-Atmospheric-Chemistry-Validation-of-Envisat-ACVE-2.pdf

This is the collection of presentations given at the 2nd Workshop on the Atmospheric Chemistry Validation of Envisat, organised by the ESA Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes, held from 3-7 May 2004 at ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.

Document - Proceedings

3rd-MSG-RAO-Workshop.pdf

Proceedings of the 3rd MSG RAO Workshop held on 5 June 2006 in Helsinki, Finland

Document - Proceedings

3rd-Workshop-on-the-Atmospheric-Chemistry-Validation-of-Envisat-ACVE-3.pdf

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the Atmospheric Chemistry Validation of Envisat, held from 4-7 December 2006 at ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy

Document - Product Document

Access to Envisat Data

The scope of this document is to focus on the data dissemination methods and the different means offered to Users to access the Envisat data.

Data - External Data (Restrained)

ADAM Surface Reflectance Database v4.0

ADAM enables generating typical monthly variations of the global Earth surface reflectance at 0.1° spatial resolution (Plate Carree projection) and over the spectral range 240-4000 nm. The ADAM product is made of gridded monthly mean climatologies over land and ocean surfaces, and of a companion API toolkit that enables the calculation of hyperspectral (at 1 nm resolution over the whole 240-4000 nm spectral range) and multidirectional reflectances (i.e. in any illumination/viewing geometry) depending on user choices. The ADAM climatologies that feed the ADAM calculation tools are: For ocean: Monthly chlorophyll concentration derived from SeaWiFS-OrbView-2 (1999-2009); it is used to compute the water column reflectance (which shows large spectral variations in the visible, but is insignificant in the near and mid infrared). Monthly wind speed derived from SeaWinds-QuikSCAT-(1999-2009); it is used to calculate the ocean glint reflectance. For land: Monthly normalized surface reflectances in the 7 MODIS narrow spectral bands derived from FondsdeSol processing chain of MOD09A1 products (derived from Aqua and Terra observations), on which relies the modelling of the hyperspectral/multidirectional surface (soil/vegetation/snow) reflectance. Uncertainty variance-covariance matrix for the 7 spectral bands associated to the normalized surface reflectance. For sea-ice: Sea ice pixels (masked in the original MOD09A1 products) have been accounted for by a gap-filling approach relying on the spatial-temporal distribution of sea ice coverage provided by the CryoClim climatology for year 2005.

Document - Proceedings

Advances-in-Atmospheric-Science-and-Applications.pdf

Proceedings in Advances in Atmospheric Science and Applications held in 18-22 June 2012 in Bruges, Belgium.

Document - Technical Note

Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document for Processor

Data - Announcement of Opportunity (Restrained)

Announcement of Opportunity for G-POD

ESA is offering all scientists the possibility to perform bulk processing and/or validation of their own algorithms exploiting the large ESA Earth-observation archive.

Event - Conference

Atmospheric Science Conference 2006

The 2006 conference was dedicated the theme atmosphere to provide scientists and data users with the opportunity to present first-hand and up-to-date results from their ongoing research activities ESA Mission instruments.

Tools - Processing

Atmospheric Toolbox

The Atmospheric Toolbox (previously known as BEAT) is a collection of executable tools and API, developed to facilitate the utilisation, viewing and processing of e.g. GOMOS, MIPAS, SCIAMACHY and GOME data.

Document - General Reference

BIOMASS-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-forest-biomass.pdf

The objective of the BIOMASS Mission is to determine the global distribution of forest biomass by reducing the uncertainty in the calculation of carbon stock and fluxes associated with the terrestrial biosphere.

Document - Conference Presentation - Poster

Calibration Procedures and Quality Aspects for the ENVISAT Atmospheric-Chemistry Instruments