News - Success Stories

1 km resolution aerosol optical thickness retrieved from PROBA-V

The ESA SPAR@MEP project aims to deliver a long-term data record (LTDR) of aerosol optical properties and surface reflectance from SPOT-VGT and PROBA-V observations.

Event - Training

4th Advanced Training Course in Land Remote Sensing

ESA organised the 4th Advanced Training Course in Land Remote Sensing which took place in Athens, Greece from 1 to 5 July 2013

Event - Training

Advanced Training Course in Land Remote Sensing 2012

The 2012 advanced training course focused on land remote sensing theory and applications.

News - Success Stories

COP26 fuels interest in satellite data

As COP26 stimulates action to reduce global warming, the essential role of satellite data in understanding and monitoring climate change is apparent.

Event - Workshop

CryoSat 2005 Workshop

The workshop provided new and familiar users of the mission with a detailed understanding of the mission status and projected performance at launch, and provided the first presentation to users of the processing algorithms.

Document - Proceedings

Dragon Programme Mid-Term Results

Proceedings of the 2005 Dragon Symposium held on 27 June - 1 July 2005 in Santorini, Greece.

Document - Newsletter

Earth Online Newsletter 01 December 2023

This issue of the Earth Online Newsletter covers a selection of the latest news and events from ESA.

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.

Event - Training

EO Summer School 3

ESA's series of summer schools, on Monitoring of the Earth System, aims to promote the exploitation of Earth observation data.

News - General News

ESA's excellent Earth Explorer missions extended to 2025

Since 2009, ESA’s Earth Explorer missions have pioneered breakthrough technologies and transformed our understanding of Earth’s system, from its core to the outer stretches of the atmosphere.

News - Events and Proceedings

Featuring the power of Earth observation data at EGU

The European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2024 brings together geoscientists from all over the world, aiming to provide a forum where scientists and early career researchers can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts, in all fields of geoscience.

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.

Document - General Reference

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

This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 128.

Tools - Other

Hydrology TEP

The Hydrology Thematic Exploitation Platform (TEP) enables access, processing, uploading, visualisation, manipulation and comparison of hydrological data.

Event - Conference

Living Planet Symposium 2019

ESA's Living Planet Symposia are amongst the biggest Earth observation conferences in the world. Scientists present their latest findings on Earth's environment and climate.

News - Spotlight on EO community

Meet one of ESA's first Africa Programme Research Fellows

Research Fellow, Dr Gladys Mosomtai, from the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), works on applying Earth observation data to better understand the spread of infectious disease in livestock, in Kenya.

Document - Proceedings

Microwave Remote Sensing Applied to Vegetation - EARSeL Workshop

News - Thematic area articles

Monitoring water on Earth's surface

ESA's Earth observation satellites are playing a leading role in furthering our understanding of how Earth's terrestrial hydrosphere is being influenced by humankind.

News - Data Release news

New Campaign datasets available

A new set of datasets is available, acquired during airborne campaigns conducted between 2014 and 2019

News - Operational News

New experimental phase for PROBA-V

PROBA-V has begun a new experimental phase that will continue through to October 2021.