Document - General Reference

WATS - Water Vapour and Temperature in the Troposphere and Stratosphere.pdf

This report describes the WATS mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.

Document - Technical Note

WALES - Water Vapour Lidar Experiment in Space

This report describes the WALES mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.

News - Thematic area articles

Transforming space data into climate action

ESA’s Earth observation activities are playing a key role in the revitalised global drive to combat climate change.

News - Thematic area articles

Tracking the world’s forests from space

As human activities continue to threaten the planet’s forests, data delivered by satellites are boosting global efforts to conserve these crucial natural resources.

Document - General Reference

The-Changing-Earth-New-Scientific-Challenges-for-ESAs-Living-Planet-Programme.pdf

This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 129.

Data - Campaigns (Open)

SPARC

ESA's SPectra bARrax Campaign (SPARC) activity was part of the preparatory study for a proposed ESA Earth Explorer mission called SPECTRA. The objective was to collect a CHRIS/PROBA reference dataset for SPECTRA-related studies.

News - Thematic area articles

Space data support Earth’s ecosystems

ESA’s Earth observation (EO) missions are making a critical contribution to monitoring transformations in our planet’s ecosystems, helping track changes in the vegetation, soil, and ocean that affect these systems.

Document - General Reference

Satellite-Data-in-Hydrology-Experience-with-ERS.pdf

This document is aimed at both current and potential users of ERS data in hydrology. It demonstrates the existing uses of ERS data in this field, considers the potential for further development and examines the issues effecting hydrological application of ERS data specifically.

News - Data Release news

New reprocessing of datasets celebrates 30 years of ERS

The ERS programme celebrated its 30th anniversary on 17 July. Today, we are still exploiting ERS data and experts continue to work on improving the altimeter, radiometer and SAR data the programme acquired.

Document - Proceedings

Microwave Remote Sensing Applied to Vegetation - EARSeL Workshop

Document - Proceedings

MERIS and (A)ATSR Workshop 2005

Proceedings of the MERIS and (A)ATSR Workshop held from 26-30 September 2005 at ESRIN in Frascati, Italy

Document - General Reference

Mapping-Forest-Fire-Damage-with-Envisat.pdf

This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 120 and describes how remote sensing from space (and ESA's ENVISAT environment satellite, launched in March 2002, in particular) is suitable for forest-fire-related studies.

Document - General Reference

Looking-after-Water-in-Africa-ESAs-TIGER-Initiative.pdf

This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 117 anddescribes the TIGER initiative, a direct follow up of ESA'sengagement in the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on SustainableDevelopment: the project is aimed to offer to developing countriestechnology to monitor from space the water resources.

News - Infographics

Learn more about Envisat MERIS Full Resolution Level-1 data

Learn more about the Envisat MERIS Level 1 products in our latest infographic.

News - Spotlight on EO community

Introducing Mirko Albani

In this short introduction, ESA's Heritage Missions Programme Manager describes what he likes most about ESA's long term archive of satellite mission data and his role in the programme.

News - Success Stories

How Envisat helped to shape global understanding of Earth’s systems

Twenty years have passed since a ground-breaking European spacecraft designed to deliver unprecedented insight into the planet’s changing environment was lofted into orbit.

Tools - Apps

Heritage Missions app for iOS

Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.

Tools - Apps

Heritage Missions app for Android

Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.

Document - General Reference

Healing-the-Earth-Earth-Observation-Supporting-International-Environmental Conventions.pdf

This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 128.

News - Thematic area articles

Global understanding of Earth's land surfaces greatly boosted by satellite data

ESA perform land surface monitoring with a range of instruments onboard satellites acquiring optical and radar data. Collections of data from these missions are freely available for research purposes.