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  • News - Success Stories

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    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.

  • Document - Conference Presentation - Poster

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    1_POLinSAR2013_compact_v1.pdf

    Time Series Decomposition Analysis for Compact Polarimetry S.R. Cloude [AEL Consultants - UK]

  • Document - Conference Presentation - Poster

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    2_Charbonneau_compact_pol.pdf

    RCM Compact Polarimetry Applied to Watershed Study F. J. Charbonneau [Natural Resources Canada]

  • Document - Conference Presentation - Poster

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    2_Lopez_Sanchez.pdf

    Polarimetric response of rice fields at C-band: analysis and applications Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez [University of Alicante -Spain]

  • Document - Conference Presentation - Poster

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    3_Polinsar2013_hongquan_IETR.pdf

    Scattering mechanism analysis using multi-angular polarimetric Radarsat-2 datasets H. Wang [Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Rennes - France]

  • Document - Conference Presentation - Poster

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    5-Touzi_wetland_PolinSAR13.pdf

    Investigation of Polarimetric L-band ALOS and C-band RADARSAT-2 for peatland subsurface water flow monitoring R. Touzi [Canada Centre for Remote Sensing]

  • Event - Training

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    5th Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry 2019

    The course was dedicated to training the next generation of EO scientists to exploit dual and fully polarimetric data for science and applications development.

  • Document - Conference Presentation - Poster

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    8_PolinSAR2013_soil_moisture_wetland_session_summary_Fina.pdf

    Applications of SAR Polarimetry on Land: Soil Moisture and Wetlands

  • Campaign

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    AgriSAR 2009

    The AgriSAR 2009 campaign was defined to leverage the RADARSAT-2 mission to better understand and demonstrate the potential for GMES land monitoring user services, particularly in agriculture.

  • Data - Campaigns (Open)

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    AgriSAR 2009

    The AgriSAR 2009 campaign was defined to leverage the RADARSAT-2 mission to better understand and demonstrate the potential for GMES land monitoring user services, particularly in agriculture.

  • News - Infographics

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    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

  • News - Infographics

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    Discover how RADARSAT scans Earth's surface

    Learn about how RADARSAT scans Earth's surface in our new infographic.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    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.

  • Event - Conference

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    IGARSS 2019

    World-class scientists, engineers and educators in geoscience and remote sensing gathered in Yokohama, Japan, for the 39th annual IGARSS symposium.

  • Event - Conference

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    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

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    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.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    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 - Operational News

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    New experimental phase for PROBA-V

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

  • Event - Workshop

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    POLinSAR 2007

    The POLinSAR 2007 workshop was open to ESA Principal Investigators and co-investigators, scientists and students working in the field of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry, and to representatives from national, European and international space agencies and value adding industry.

  • Event - Workshop

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    POLinSAR 2009

    The 2009 workshop focused on theory and methods in the fields of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry