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Event - Meeting
World Ocean Circulation User Consultation Meeting 2019
The World Ocean Circulation User Consultation Meeting took place in 2019 with the aim to prepare a roadmap for new initiatives on ocean circulation research and applications.
Data - Campaigns (Open)
WISE
The objective of WInd and Salinity Experiment 2001 (WISE 2001) was to get more data points and better wind speed (WS) measurements so as to reduce the sensitivity to WS uncertainty.
News - General News
Updated SMOS documentation available
Updated versions of several SMOS data documents are now available.
News - Operational News
Update for the SMOS Near Real Time Sea Surface Wind Speed Processor configuration
An updated configuration of the SMOS Near Real Time Sea Surface Wind Speed Processor was deployed at the IFREMER and ESA operational ground segment on 4th December 2023.
Event - Workshop
Understanding the Carbon and Water Cycles using SMOS Data and Models
The workshop aimed to bring together the EO, SMOS, Earth system science and modelling communities involved in the observation, characterisation and forecasting of land surface processes and their impacts.
Document - General Reference
Understanding climate change from space
This document describes ESA's Climate Change Initiative, and how it is intended to contribute towards monitoring and understanding the Earth's climate.
News - Operational News
Transition from FTP to FTPS for SMOS, Aeolus and Campaign data dissemination systems
As of 15 April 2024 access to the SMOS, Aeolus and Campaign data will be changed from simple FTP to FTPS.
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.
Document - General Reference
Towards More Efficient Use of Radar-Altimeter Data
Twenty years ago, experimental altimeters on NASA's Skylab and Geos-3 were already demonstrating the potential of such instrumentation. This led in turn to the development and launch by NASA in July 1978 of the Seasat oceanographic satellite mission. Both Geos-3 and Seasat were very successful in their pioneering missions, but were limited somewhat by poor coverage in the case of Geos-3 and an abnormally short mission duration in Seasat's case.
Document - General Reference
The-Changing-Earth-New-Scientific-Challenges-for-ESAs-Living-Planet-Programme.pdf
This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 129.
Document - General Reference
The-CEOS-Earth-Observation-Handbook-2008.pdf
This report presents the main capabilities of satellite Earth observations, their applications, and a systematic overview of present and planned Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) agency Earth observation satellite missions and their instruments. It also explores society's increasing need for information on our planet. This edition has a particular focus on climate change.
Document - General Reference
The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Precipitation Mission
This report for assessment addresses the Precipitation mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.
Document - General Reference
The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Magnetometry Mission
This report for assessment addresses the Magnetometry mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.
Document - General Reference
The Living Planet - Observing the Earth - The Earth Observation programme
This brochure provides an overview of ESA's Living Planet Strategy, an Earth Observation programme approved in 1999.
Document - General Reference
The Dragon Programme - ESA and China Cooperate in Earth Observation
This article describes the Dragon programme, a cooperation between ESA and the China's National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSCC) in thedevelopment of Earth Observation applications.
Document - General Reference
The Data User Element
This brochure describes ESA's Data User Element (DUE) programme, which aims to bring together user communities and actors from research institutes, industrial companies and other specialised fields. This collaborative approach ensures the transfer of valid and high quality demonstration products into sustainable environments which meet the practical and operational needs of the user communities .
Document - Technical Note
Telemeter-Instrumentation-Schedule-LMSC-No-1241637.pdf
This Telemetry Instrumentation Schedule contains a listing and channel assignment of all data processed by the Satellite Vehicle System (SVS) data system. A brief description of the telemetry format is included.
News - Success Stories
Synergy of space data helps modernise irrigation systems
The growing demands on agriculture, coupled with the climate crisis, are pressurising Earth’s valuable freshwater resources and making assessment of water practices ever more important.
News - Events and Proceedings
Special event for 10th anniversary of SMOS
Earth Explorers for Climate - The contribution from SMOS - an event to mark the 10th anniversary of SMOS mission.
Document - General Reference
Spacelab-in-context.pdf
This document provides an overview of Spacelab, a joint ESA-NASA laboratory that was carried aboard space shuttles from 1981 to 2000.