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  • 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 - 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.

  • Document - Conference Presentation - Poster

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    1_Polarimetric_Soil_Moisture_Retrieval_Vegetated_Soils_in_TERENO.pdf

    Polarimetric Decompositions for Soil Moisture Retrieval from Vegetated Soils in TERENO Observatories T. Jagdhuber [German Aerospace Center - DLR]

  • 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.

  • Document - Conference Presentation - Poster

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    2_Charbonneau_compact_pol.pdf

    RCM Compact Polarimetry Applied to Watershed Study F. J. Charbonneau [Natural Resources Canada]

  • 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 - Workshop

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    2nd MERIS/AATSR User Workshop

    The workshop addressed the utilisation of MERIS and AATSR data for remote sensing of open oceans, coastal waters, land surfaces and atmospheric processes.

  • Event - Training

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    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.

  • 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 - Conference Presentation - Poster

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    5-Touzi_wetland_PolinSAR13.pdf

    Investigation of Polarimetric L-band ALOS and C-band RADARSAT-2 for peatland subsurface water flow monitoring R. Touzi [Canada Centre for Remote Sensing]

  • Document - Conference Presentation - Poster

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    8_PolinSAR2013_soil_moisture_wetland_session_summary_Fina.pdf

    Applications of SAR Polarimetry on Land: Soil Moisture and Wetlands

  • 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.

  • Event - Conference

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    ALOS 2008 Symposium

    The 2008 Joint PI Symposium of the ALOS Data Nodesa was a forum to exchange views on technical and scientific issues on the data exploitation.

  • Data - Announcement of Opportunity (Restrained)

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    Announcement of Opportunity for NoR

    ESA invites submissions for the Network of Resources (NoR) call, which aims to support research, development and pre-commercial users to innovate their working practices, moving from a data download paradigm towards a 'bring the user to the data' paradigm.

  • Event - Workshop

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    Applications of the ERS Along Track Scanning Radiometer Workshop 1999

    The workshop on ERS mission's Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) instrument gathered researchers and specialists working on different applications of the mission.

  • Event - Workshop

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    Aquaculture User Consultation

    The main goal of the workshop was to define a detailed set of user requirements for the future ESA Aquaculture project.

  • Data - EO Sign In Authentication (Open)

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    AVHRR Level-1B Local Area Coverage Imagery

    This collection is composed of AVHRR L1B products (1.1 km) reprocessed from the NOAA POES and Metop AVHRR sensors data acquired at the University of Dundee and University of Bern ground stations and from the ESA and University of Bern data historical archive. The product format is the NOAA AVHRR Level 1B that combines the AVHRR data from the HRPT stream with ancillary information like Earth location and calibration data which can be applied by the user. Other appended parameters are time codes, quality indicators, solar and satellite angles and telemetry. Two data collections cover Europe and the neighbouring regions in the period of 1 January 1981 to 31 December 2020 and the acquired data in the context of the 1-KM project in the ‘90s. During the early 1990’s various groups, including the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the Commission of the European Communities (CEC), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) Science Team and ESA concluded that a global land 1 KM AVHRR data set would have been crucial to study and develop algorithms for several land products for the Earth Observing System. USGS, NOAA, ESA and other non-U.S. AVHRR receiving stations endorsed the initiative to collect a global land 1-km multi-temporal AVHRR data set over all land surfaces using NOAA's TIROS "afternoon" polar-orbiting satellite. On 1 April 1992, the project officially began up to the end of 1999 with the utilisation of 23 stations worldwide plus the NOAA local area coverage (LAC) on-board recorders. The global land 1-km AVHRR dataset is composed of 5 channels, raw AVHRR dataset at 1.1 km resolution from the NOAA-11 and NOAA-14 satellites covering land surfaces, inland water and coastal areas. Global Land 1 km AVHRR Data Set Project HRPT Ground Station Network (as of 1 April 1992) and Acquisition Areas for LAC Recorded Data Spatial coverage: Check the spatial coverage of the collection on a map available on the Third Party Missions Dissemination Service: AVHRR L1B 1.1 KM AVHRR L1B LAC Out-of-Europe.

  • Data - EO Sign In Authentication (Open)

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    Envisat AATSR L1B Brightness Temperature/Radiance [ENV_AT_1_RBT]

    - AATSR Full Resolution land and ocean cover image of the Iberian Peninsula from 28 October 2006 AATSR Full Resolution land cover image of the Iberian Peninsula from 28 October 2006. The Envisat AATSR Level 1B Brightness Temperature/Radiance product (RBT) contains top of atmosphere (TOA) brightness temperature (BT) values for the infra-red channels and radiance values for the visible channels, on a 1-km pixel grid. Values for each channel and for the nadir and oblique views occupy separate NetCDF files within the Sentinel-SAFE format, along with associated uncertainty estimates. Additional files contain cloud flags, land and water masks, and confidence flags for each image pixel, as well as instrument and ancillary meteorological information. This AATSR product [ENV_AT_1_RBT] in NetCDF format stemming from the 4th AATSR reprocessing, is a continuation of ERS ATSR data and a precursor of Sentinel-3 SLSTR data. It has replaced the former L1B product [ATS_TOA_1P] in Envisat format from the 3rd reprocessing. Users with Envisat-format products are recommended to move to the new Sentinel-SAFE like/NetCDF format products. The 4th reprocessing of Envisat AATSR data was completed in 2022; the processing updates that have been put in place and the expected scientific improvements have been outlined in full in the User Documentation for (A)ATSR 4th Reprocessing Products.