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  • Document - Product Specifications

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    wind-scatterometer-processing-requirements-from-sigma-nought-triplets-to-dealiased-wind.pdf

    This document defines the ground processing algorithms for the ERS-1 AMI wind mode (Scatterometer) from the sigma nought triplets to the wind speed and direction, including the wind retrieval and the ambiguity removal processing.

  • Document - General Reference

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    Wetlands monitoring by ERS SAR data.pdf

    The objectives of this study were to assess the suitability of ERS SAR images in monitoring the seasonal changes of the wetland areas which are difficult to monitor on land. Lake Bangweulu in Zambia was selected for the study. An additional objective was to carry out a comparison of the results obtained from both ERS SAR and NOAA AVHRR data.

  • Document - General Reference

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    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 - General Reference

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    warp5-grid.pdf

    SCIRoCCo WARP 5 Grid

  • Document - Technical Note

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    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.

  • Event - Meeting

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    VH-RODA and CEOS SAR workshop

    The workshop provided an open forum for the presentation and discussion of current status and future developments related to the calibration and validation of space borne very high-resolution SAR and optical sensors and data products.

  • Document - Technical Note

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    UWA Processing Algorithm Specification

    This technical note specifies version 2 of the algorithm to derive SAR wave spectrum products from ERS AMI wave mode data.

  • Activity - Cal/Val activities

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    UV nadir viewing galleries

    Atmospheric chemistry nadir observation from space now spans nearly forty years. The early UVN (UV nadir missions) mainly focused on measuring ozone.

  • Document - Technical Note

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    UTC-SBT time correlation study

    UTC-SBT time correlation study

  • Document - User Guide

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    User Documentation for (A)ATSR 4th Reprocessing Level 1B Products

    This document provides a guide for users of (A)ATSR 4th reprocessing products, giving easily viewed format details, highlighting differences from previous reprocessed products, noting technical features inherent in the products, and giving notification of remaining Open Issues.User Documentation for (A)ATSR 4th Reprocessing Level 1B Products

  • News - Data Release news

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    Updated Precise Orbit data (POD) for the full ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission available

    The Precise Orbit files (ERS.ORB.POD) for the entire ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission periods have been reprocessed with up-to-date standards.

  • Document - Publication - Paper

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    Uniqueness of the ERS Scatterometer for nowcasting and typhoon forecasting

    Paper presented to IGARSS-2005: Uniqueness of the ERS Scatterometer for nowcasting and typhoon forecasting

  • Document - General Reference

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    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.

  • Document - General Reference

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    Two Years of ERS-1 Data Exploitation

    This bulletin reports on the first two years of the ERS-1 satellite.

  • Data - Data Description

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    TropForest - ALOS, GEOSAT-1 & KOMPSAT-2 optical coverages over tropical forests

    The objective of the ESA TropForest project was to create a harmonised geo-database of ready-to-use satellite imagery to support 2010 global forest assessment performed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Assessments for year 2010 were essential for building realistic deforestation benchmark rates at global to regional levels. To reach this objective, the project aimed to create a harmonised ortho-rectified/pre-processed imagery geo-database based on satellite data acquisitions (ALOS AVNIR-2, GEOSAT-1 SLIM6, KOMPSAT-2 MSC) performed during year 2009 and 2010, for the Tropical Latin America (excluding Mexico) and for the Tropical South and Southeast Asia (excluding China), resulting in 1971 sites located at 1° x 1° geographical lat/long intersections. The project finally delivered 1866 sites (94.7% of target) due to cloud coverages too high for missing sites. Spatial coverage: Check the spatial coverage of the collection on a map available on the Third Party Missions Dissemination Service.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    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 - Success Stories

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    Trailblazing ERS-2 mission enables climate change applications

    As ESA’s ERS-2 satellite approaches Earth’s atmosphere for reentry, it’s time to reflect on the mission’s great achievements in powering climate-related applications.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    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.