News - Events and Proceedings

Celebrating ESA’s first small satellite with science success

Scientists and data users gathered at a special workshop to celebrate the end of PROBA-1’s CHRIS sensor and discuss the results of this overachieving mission.

Document - Proceedings

EO-Summer-School-6-ESA-explorer-mission-GOCE-earth-gravity-from-space.pdf

This presentation from ESA's EO Summer School 6 presents the ESA explorer mission GOCE earth gravity from space

Event - Conference

Living Planet Symposium 2022

Learn about the 2022 edition of ESA's Living Planet Symposium.

News - Infographics

PROBA-1 - From technology demonstration to long-term Earth observation

Learn about ESA's PROBA-1 (Project for On-Board Autonomy) mission in our new infographic.

News - Events and Proceedings

Data preservation takes centre stage at Living Planet Symposium

Against the backdrop of the famed Rhine River, world-class scientists and Earth observation data-users are gathered this week in the historical city of Bonn, at the Living Planet Symposium (LPS).

News - Spotlight on EO community

Interviewing Mirko Albani

ESA’s Heritage Space Programme Manager describes the goals of the programme, some of the challenges involved in preserving and improving 40 years of historical Earth observation data, and his passion for curating this long-term archive.

News - Thematic area articles

Satellite data central to ocean monitoring

Over 95% of Earth’s water is found in our oceans, and yet sadly, oceans are under stress from climate change and pollution. Monitoring our oceans is vital for Earth’s survival and satellites are the primary means of long-term and independent observation of our vast ocean bodies and their associated coastal zones.

Event - Conference

EGU General Assembly 2019

The annual European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting to cover all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences.

Event - Workshop

2nd International GOCE User Workshop

This workshop provided a forum for presenting progress on the development of the GOCE mission's payload, ground segment and data products.

Event - Workshop

3rd International GOCE User Workshop

This workshop focussed on the oceanographic applications, such as absolute dynamic topography, of GOCE data in conjunction with other space-borne data, such as radar altimetry, and in-situ data and models.

Event - Workshop

Space and the Arctic 2009 Workshop

Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at an unprecedented rate. This workshop looked at the needs and challenges of working and living in the rapidly changing Arctic and explore how space-based services might help to meet those needs.

News - Infographics

An overview of ESA's Third Party Missions programme

ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of almost 50 satellite missions, which are owned by organisations around the world. ESA has agreements with these organisations to acquire, process, and distribute data from their missions

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.

Document - General Reference

ARTEMIS-Paving-the-way-for-Europes-future-data-relay-land-mobile-and-Navigation-Services.pdf

This brochure provides an overview of Artemis, ESAs telecommunications satellite.

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.

Activity - General activities

EO Science for Society

ESA's Earth Observation Science for Society programme aims to promote scientific exploitation of satellite data, forges new scientific discoveries and pioneers new services, stimulating downstream industrial and economic growth.

Document - General Reference

Principles of radar imagery

Mission - Third Party Missions

PROBA-1

PROBA-1 is a technology demonstration satellite that later became an operational Earth observation mission.

Activity - Instrument characterisation and algorithm studies

ESA satellites and instruments calibration landing page

ESA satellites and instruments calibration landing page.

Document - Technical Note

Quality Assessment of CERSAT Altimeter Products

The first results of the CERSAT QIP and QPR quality assessments are presented in this report.