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 - Technical Note

The SeaSat-A Synthetic Aperture Radar System

The SeaSat-A synthetic aperture radar imaging radar system (SAR) was the first imaging radar system used as a scientific instrument from Earth orbit. The system generated continuous radar imagery with a 100 km swath at a resolution of 25 m from an 800 km altitude orbit. The imagery is a pictorial representation of the radar backscatter of the Earth's surface in a map-like representation.

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.

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 - Technical Note

SeaSat-SAR-IPF-Data-and-Processing-Issues.pdf

This document describes the rehabilitation and reprocessing of ESA’s historic SeaSat raw data archive.

Document - General Reference

SeaSat views Oceans and Sea Ice with Synthetic Aperture Radar

Data - EO Sign In Authentication (Open)

SeaSat ESA archive

This collection gives access to the complete SEASAT dataset acquired by ESA and mainly covers Europe. The dataset comprises some of the first ever SAR data recorded for scientific purposes, reprocessed with the most recent processor. The Level-1 products are available as: SAR Precision Image [SEA_PRI_1P] SAR Single Look Complex Image [SEA_SLC_1P] SAR Ellipsoid Geocoded Precision Image [SEA_GEC_1P] Spatial coverage: Check the spatial coverage of the collection on a map available on the Third Party Missions Dissemination Service.

Mission - Heritage Missions

Seasat

On board Seasat was the first-ever space-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system for science applications.

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 - General News

Satellite Radar Altimetry: past and future

Satellite radar altimetry measurements yield a wealth of information that can be used for a wide range of applications.

Document - General Reference

PREMIER-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-atmospheric-composition.pdf

The objective of the PREMIER mission is to quantify the processes controlling global atmospheric composition in the mid/upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (5-25 km height range), which is a region of particular importance for climate change.

Document - Proceedings

Preliminary-Radiometric-Calibration-Assessment-of-ALOS-AVNIR-2.pdf

This paper was presented at IGARSS 2007 (23-27 July 2007 - Barcelona, Spain). It summarizes the activities carried out in the frame of the data quality activities of the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type 2 (AVNIR-2) sensor on board the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS).

News - General News

PolSARpro v6.0 (Biomass Edition) software new release

Download the latest version of ESA's Polarimetric SAR data Processing and Educational Toolbox (PolSARpro).