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Document - General Reference
BIOMASS-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-forest-biomass.pdf
The objective of the BIOMASS Mission is to determine the global distribution of forest biomass by reducing the uncertainty in the calculation of carbon stock and fluxes associated with the terrestrial biosphere.
Document - General Reference
Envisat-The-Altimetry-Report-Science-and-Applications.pdf
This report provides a detailed assessment of the dual frequency Radar Altimetry (RA-2) to be implemented on ENVISAT. It addresses the integrated altimeter system including the microwave radiometer and positioning systems, the instrument observation and mission requirements, and the algorithm maturity and geophysical parameter retrieval.
Document - General Reference
Envisat-Mission-and-System-Summary.pdf
This document provides a description of the mission objectives, the underlying system design concepts, status of the design, and developments of the system elements.
Document - General Reference
Envisat-Europes-Earth-Observation-Mission-for-the-new-Millennium.pdf
This issue of the Earth Observation Quarterly is fully dedicated to the ENVISAT mission. The production of this periodical is now suspended, but paper copies are still available for distribution.
Document - General Reference
Envisat-Caring-for-the-Earth.pdf
This document provides a description on the overall development and verification of the mission, its objectives, the payload and applications, the ground segment.
Document - General Reference
Envisat-Opportunities-for-Science-and-Applications.pdf
This document presents an overview of the opportunities for exploitation of Envisat data products and it is hoped that it will serve the purpose of encouraging scientists and application developers to plan for the use of Envisat data in their work.
Document - Product Handbook
Envisat-RA-2-Level-2-Product-Handbook.pdf
This handbook describes the Envisat RA-2 and MWR Level 2 products.
Document - Product Document
ENVISAT-RA-2-MWR-Product-Handbook.pdf
This document provides in-depth information to users of ENVISAT RA2 and MWR data products format and their contents, information on the instruments, the principle of the measurements and the main algorithm used in the processing chains.
Document - General Reference
ESA-Achievements-More-than-thirty-years-of-pioneering-space-activity.pdf
This volume gives a general overview of ESA's activities and programmes by analyzing the single missions where it is involved.
Document - General Reference
GLOBCOVER-The-most-detailed-portrait-of-Earth.pdf
This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr. 136.
Document - General Reference
Monitoring-Marine-Life-from-Space-Envisat-Experience-in-Chile.pdf
This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 126 and describes the use of satellite data for monitoring the environmental conditions of coastal waters and the health of southern oceans.
Document - General Reference
Monitoring-River-and-Lake-Levels-from-Space.pdf
This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 117 and describes the new global river and lake monitoring products developed by ESA with the help of De Monfort University (UK).
Document - General Reference
The Envisat Radar Altimeter System (RA-2)
This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 98 and givesdetails on RA-2 and on its role in the ENVISAT mission.
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
Taking-the-Measure-of-Earth-Fifteen-Years-of-Progress-in-Radar-Altimetry.pdf
This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 128.
Document - General Reference
CoReH2O-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-snow-and-ice.pdf
This report describes the CoReH2O (Cold Regions Hydrology high-resolution Observatory) mission, which was selected for feasibility study in the third cycle of Earth Explorers.
Document - General Reference
Meteosat-Second-Generation-The-Satellite-Development.pdf
This publication provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the MSG programme, the mission objectives, the design and development of the MSG spacecraft.
Document - General Reference
Meteosat-Second-Generation.pdf
This flyer summarises in short the aims, applications and technology of the MSG mission.
Document - General Reference
ESA-Bulletin-Nr-106-Envisat-Special-Issue.pdf
This issue of the ESA Bulletin is fully dedicated to the ENVISAT mission.
Document - General Reference
Highlights-of-the-ERS-Envisat-Symposium.pdf
This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 105 and providesdetails on the achievements of the ESA's Earth ObservationProgramme following the Gothenburg's symposium.