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  • News - Success Stories

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    1 km resolution aerosol optical thickness retrieved from PROBA-V

    The ESA SPAR@MEP project aims to deliver a long-term data record (LTDR) of aerosol optical properties and surface reflectance from SPOT-VGT and PROBA-V observations.

  • News - Success Stories

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    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.

  • Event - Workshop

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    10 Years of GOME on ERS-2 Workshop

    The workshop summarised 10 years of operation of the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) on board ERS-2.

  • Event - Conference

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    15 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium

    A Symposium on "15 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry" and the annual meeting of the Ocean Surface Topography Science Team, the International Doris Service Workshop and the ARGO Workshop.

  • Event - Meeting

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    20th GHRSST Science Team Meeting

    The 20th GHRSST International Science Team meeting in 2019 brought together sea surface temperature experts to look at future innovations.

  • Event - Training

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    2nd Advanced Training Course on Ocean Remote Sensing 2009

    This advanced training course focused on ocean remote sensing theory and applications.

  • Event - Conference

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    3rd ERS Symposium

    The ESA Directorate for Observation of the Earth and its Environment held the 3rd ERS Symposium, in 1997, where many of the results from the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions were presented and discussed by the scientific community.

  • Event - Workshop

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    4th CHRIS PROBA Workshop

    Workshop on the treatment of Compact High Resolution Images Spectrometer (CHRIS) data.

  • Document - Technical Note

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    AATSR-Latitude-Dependent-Bias-Correction.pdf

    This document contains calibration information for the Sea Surface Temperature readings from the AATSR instrument on Envisat.

  • Event - Training

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    Advanced Training Course on Ocean Remote Sensing 2006

    The objective of the course was to provide first-hand information on a broad range of ocean research topics including key principles of SAR, Radar Altimetry, Ocean Colour and Sea Surface Temperature measurements, processing algorithms, data products and their use in oceanographic applications.

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    Aeolus

    The Aeolus mission which was launched into space on 22 August 2018 and was retired on 30 April 2023, provided global observations of wind profiles from space to improve the quality of weather forecasts, and to advance our understanding of atmospheric dynamics and climate processes.

  • News - Infographics

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    Aeolus - ESA's mission dedicated to winds, aerosols and clouds

    Learn more about ESA's youngest Earth Explorer - the Aeolus mission - in our latest infographic

  • Event - Workshop

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    Aeolus Cal/Val and Science Workshop

    The ESA organised Aeolus Cal/Val virtual workshop was a forum for reporting on the mission status and product evolution, for informing and coordinating mission Cal/Val activities.

  • Activity - Quality

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    Aeolus DISC

    The Aeolus DISC is the core element in ESA's data quality framework for the Aeolus mission, comprised of an international expert consortium to study and improve the data quality of Aeolus products.

  • Data - EO Sign In Authentication (Open)

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    Aeolus L2A Aerosol/Cloud optical product

    The Level 2A aerosol/cloud optical products of the Aeolus mission include: Geo-located consolidated backscatter and extinction profiles Backscatter-to-extinction coefficient LIDAR ratio, scene classification Heterogeneity index Attenuated backscatter signals. Resolution: Horizontal resolution of L2A optical properties at observation scale (~87 km); Exceptions are group properties (horizontal accumulation of measurements from ~3 km to ~87 km) and attenuated backscatters (~3 km). Note: The resolution of "groups" in the L2A can only go down to 5 measurements at the moment, i.e. ~15 km horizontal resolution. This could be configured to go to 1 measurement - Vertical resolution 250-2000 m (Defined by Range Bin Settings).

  • News - Data Release news

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    Aeolus Level-2A old Baseline-11 data now publicly available

    We are pleased to inform Aeolus users that 3232 Level 2A products in Baseline 11 that were not previously released are now available for browsing and download on the Aeolus Dissemination server.

  • News - Data Release news

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    Aeolus third Reprocessing Campaign Data published

    Data from the Aeolus 3rd reprocessing campaign, covering the sensing period from 31 August 2018 to 16 June 2019, relevant to the first period of operations of the ALADIN Flight Model A instrument is available for browsing and download.

  • Tools - Processing

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    Aeolus VRE

    The Aeolus Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is the latest extension to the VirES for Aeolus service, which offers more direct and in-depth data exploitation of the Aeolus mission. The VRE is a cloud service that provides a web-based development environment in the form of a JupyterLab workspace.

  • Event - Meeting

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    AGU Fall Meeting 2019

    The 2019 AGU Fall Meeting offered the opportunity to participate in AGU's centennial presentations and special events that brought to life the past, present and the future of AGU's science.

  • News - Spotlight on EO community

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    An overview of the Aeolus mission

    In this overview video, ESA's mission manager, Tommaso Parrinello, describes the successes and challenges of this amazing mission, whose impacts will live long beyond its lifetime in space.