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News - Infographics
Discover how RADARSAT scans Earth's surface
Learn about how RADARSAT scans Earth's surface in our new infographic.
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 - 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.
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.
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
News - Data Release news
RADARSAT data on demand
In the framework of the Earthnet programme, ESA is distributing RADARSAT data on-demand to support EO science and research activities.
Event - Workshop
POLinSAR 2013
The objectives of the PolInSAR 2013 workshop were to present the latest studies and results of SAR polarimetry and polarimetric interferometry.
Mission - Earth Watch
PROBA-V
The PROBA-V mission provides multispectral images to study the evolution of the vegetation cover on a daily and global basis.
Event - Conference
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
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.
Event - Workshop
POLinSAR 2009
The 2009 workshop focused on theory and methods in the fields of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry
Event - Workshop
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.
Document - Conference Presentation - Poster
2_Charbonneau_compact_pol.pdf
RCM Compact Polarimetry Applied to Watershed Study F. J. Charbonneau [Natural Resources Canada]
Document - Conference Presentation - Poster
8_PolinSAR2013_soil_moisture_wetland_session_summary_Fina.pdf
Applications of SAR Polarimetry on Land: Soil Moisture and Wetlands
Document - Conference Presentation - Poster
1_POLinSAR2013_compact_v1.pdf
Time Series Decomposition Analysis for Compact Polarimetry S.R. Cloude [AEL Consultants - UK]
Document - Conference Presentation - Poster
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]