News - Events and Proceedings

Φ-Week Triumphs

In its fourth edition, Φ-Week presented the scientific community with amazing opportunities and projects—thus running alongside innovation at 360 degrees.

Event - Meeting

VH-RODA and CEOS SAR workshop

The workshop provided an open forum for the presentation and discussion of current status and future developments related to the calibration and validation of space borne very high-resolution SAR and optical sensors and data products.

Data - Data Description

TropForest - ALOS, GEOSAT-1 & KOMPSAT-2 optical coverages over tropical forests

The objective of the ESA TropForest project was to create a harmonised geo-database of ready-to-use satellite imagery to support 2010 global forest assessment performed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Assessments for year 2010 were essential for building realistic deforestation benchmark rates at global to regional levels. To reach this objective, the project aimed to create a harmonised ortho-rectified/pre-processed imagery geo-database based on satellite data acquisitions (ALOS AVNIR-2, GEOSAT-1 SLIM6, KOMPSAT-2 MSC) performed during year 2009 and 2010, for the Tropical Latin America (excluding Mexico) and for the Tropical South and Southeast Asia (excluding China), resulting in 1971 sites located at 1° x 1° geographical lat/long intersections. The project finally delivered 1866 sites (94.7% of target) due to cloud coverages too high for missing sites. Spatial coverage: Check the spatial coverage of the collection on a map available on the Third Party Missions Dissemination Service.

Document - User Guide

TPM-L-OADS-dissemination-service-User-Manual.pdf

This guide describes the Third Party Missions Dissemination System.

News - Infographics

Timeline to over 40 years of historical satellite missions

ESA's Heritage Space Programme preserves historical data from over 40 years of Earth observation missions.

Document - User Guide

Third Party Missions, Cat-1 Data Availability

This brochure gives a quick overview on the availability of the Third Party Missions IRS-P3, JERS-1, NIMBUS, Proba, Landsat, KOMPSAT-1, SCISAT-1, Terra/Aqua, NOAA, QSCAT, OrbView, SPOT-1,-2,-3,-4, ALOS.

Document - General Reference

Third Party Missions Brochure

This brochure summarises ESA's Third Party Missions programme, providing a timeline and examples of content related to some of the missions.

Document - Proceedings

Third Euro-Latin American Space Conference

Document - General Reference

The Earth Observation Handbook, 2010 Update - Key Tables

This is the 2010 update of the CEOS Earth Observation Handbook. You can browse the live database at http://database.eohandbook.com/ or download the printable PDF of key tables based on the 2010 database contents for a handy reference.

Document - General Reference

The Earth from ALOS - New Perspectives from Space including 3D

This brochure gives an example of the ALOS spectacular scenes, 3D pictures and general info on the satellite applications.

Document - Proceedings

The contribution of the European Space Agency to the ALOS PRISM- AVNIR-2 commissioning phase

This paper was presented at IGARSS 2007 (23-27 July 2007 - Barcelona, Spain). It summarizes the strategy that ESA adopted to define and implement a data verification plan for mission operated by foreign nations, classified as so called ESA Third Party Missions.

Tools - Analysis

SNAP

SNAP is a common architecture for all Sentinel Toolboxes. It is ideal for Earth observation processing and analysis.

Document - General Reference

Shrimp farm inventory and monitoring

This series produced by the Environment and Natural Resources Service of FAQ aims to present the possibilities of remote sensing techniques for natural resource management and planning.

Tools - Analysis

Sentinel-3 Toolbox

The Toolbox consists of a set of visualisation, analysis and processing tools for the exploitation of OLCI and SLSTR data.

Tools - Analysis

Sentinel-1 Toolbox

The Toolbox consists of: processing tools, data product readers and writers and a display and analysis application to support the archive of SAR data from ESA and 3rd party missions.

Document - Proceedings

SEASAR-2012-sessions-summaries-seed-questions-recommendations.pdf

This document gathers together the sessions summaries with seed questions discussion and recommendations of the SEASAR 2012 workshop.

Document - Proceedings

SeaSAR 2012

Event - Workshop

SEASAR 2012

The European Space Agency and the Norwegian Space Centre jointly organised the fourth SAR oceanography workshop, 'SEASAR 2012', entitled 'Advances in SAR Oceanography'.

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.

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.