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News - Infographics
What are the next Earth Explorers?
Learn about the planned missions in the Earth Explorers programme - EarthCARE, Biomass, FLEX, and FORUM - which will further our understanding of Earth’s climate.
Event - Workshop
Volcanic Ash Monitoring - ESA/EUMETSAT Workshop
On 14 April 2010 the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjalla erupted and had been ejecting immense plumes of ash and sulphur into the atmosphere. The workshop was held in response to the emergency.
Document - General Reference
Third Party Missions Brochure
This brochure summarises ESA's Third Party Missions programme, providing a timeline and examples of content related to some of the missions.
Document - General Reference
surface-reflectance-aerosol-properties-proba-v-observations-abstract.pdf
Joint Retrieval Of Surface Reflectance And Aerosol Properties: Application To Proba-V Observations
News - Events and Proceedings
Submit your abstracts for EarthCARE Pre-Launch Science and Validation Workshop
Invitations are now open for the EarthCARE Pre-Launch Science and Validation Workshop, which will take place at ESRIN in Frascati, Italy, from 13 to 17 November.
Document - General Reference
Sterckx-Sindy-ICOS-2017.pdf
Poster presentation at IOCS (International Ocean Colour Science) 2017, 5 -19 May 2017, Lisbon, Portugal.
News - Thematic area articles
Space data help to unravel the complexities of Earth’s atmosphere
As the impacts of the climate crisis intensify, scientists are using ESA’s Earth observation archives to investigate atmospheric processes and their influences on the planet’s changing environment.
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.
Tools - Analysis
SNAP
SNAP is a common architecture for all Sentinel Toolboxes. It is ideal for Earth observation processing and analysis.
News - Success Stories
Ship trails in the Bay of Biscay observed using PROBA-V imagery
Ship trails have been perceived as convincing evidence of aerosol-cloud interaction. Ship emissions have been proven to contribute by about 1.9% and 2.9% to the increase in the global total and fine-mode aerosol optical thickness (AOT) respectively over a five year period (Peters et al. 20212).
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.
News - Thematic area articles
Satellite data boost global understanding of land surface
Understanding our changing land surface is essential in the study of climate change. Satellites are used to monitor changes to the material that covers Earth’s surface, so-called land cover, such as vegetation and water.
Tools - Visualisation
SAMI
SAMI (Satellite Mission Editor & Player) is a freely available software application for visualisation of high-resolution 3D and 2D scenarios of ESA Earth Observation satellites.
Tools - Visualisation
S2G Data Viewer
S2G Data Viewer is an extensible application that allows you to inspect the contents of CCSDS-compliant telemetry data exchanged between a satellite and its ground segments on the space-to-ground link.
Document - Technical Note
Review of semi-empirical BRDF models performance on Proba-V and Spot-Vgt time series
Proba-V heritage mission: SPOT-VGT data processing and dissemination - Scientific paper providing overview of SPOT-VGT 15-years of data processing and dissemination
News - General News
Quality Reports Advanced Search Portal takes off
The Quality Reports Advanced Search (QRAS) Portal is a system that provides a set of functionalities for searching, filtering, visualising and downloading of Earth Observation reports data, from multiple missions.
Document - General Reference
PV-LAC-COAST-VR-v2.0.pdf
This is the second version (V2) of the Validation Report for the PV-LAC coastal activities.
Document - General Reference
PV-LAC-COAST-SR-v1.1.pdf
In the frame of the PV-LAC project a prototype code has been developed, tested and validated for the atmospheric correction (A/C) and turbidity retrieval of PROBA-V data over turbid coastal areas.