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Document - Publication - Paper
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
News - Thematic area articles
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
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.
Document - Publication - Paper
Tracking of tropical cyclones with the ERS Scatterometer
Presented at IGARSS 1999: Tracking of tropical cyclones with the ERS Scatterometer
Document - Technical Note
The RA-2 On-Board Tracker and its Autonomous Adaptable Resolution
This technical note describes the complete functionality of the RA-2 on-board Tracker and how its Resolution Selection Logic (RSL) works. It gives a detailed analysis of the algorithm and its configuration parameters.
Document - Publication - Paper
THE ERS-2 SCATTEROMETER- INSTRUMENT AND DATA PERFORMANCES ASSESSMENT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE MISSION
Scatterometer performances presented to ERS-ENVISAT Symposium Montreux 2007 (paper): ERS-2 Scatterometer - Instrument and data performances assessment since the beginning of the mission
Document - Publication - Paper
The Advanced Scatterometer Processing System for ERS Data- Thirteen Years of Ocean Winds from Space
Document - Publication - Paper
Stability of Amazon Backscatter at C-band- ERS1-2 and RADARSAT-1
Stability of Amazon Backscatter at C-band: Spaceborne Results from ERS-1/2 and RADARSAT-1
News - Success Stories
Spotlight on sea-level rise
Scientists to share findings on how satellite has revealed changes in the height of the sea, ice, inland bodies of water and more.
Activity - Quality
SCIRoCCo
The SCIRoCCo project is an interdisciplinary cooperation of scatterometry experts aimed at promoting the continuing exploitation of ESA's unique 20 years' worth of ERS Scatterometer data.
Document - Publication - Paper
Scatterometer Ground Processing Review for Gyro-Less Operations
Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice: Scatterometer Ground Processing Review for Gyro-Less Operations
Document - Technical Note
Scatterometer Algorithm Review - RMA Technical report
Review of old Scatterometer algorithm and design of new ESACA processor: Scatterometer Algorithm Review - RMA Technical report
Document - Technical Note
Scatterometer Algorithm Review
Scatterometer Algorithm Review: Technical Report no: RMA-SIC-011109
News - Data Release news
New reprocessing of datasets celebrates 30 years of ERS
The ERS programme celebrated its 30th anniversary on 17 July. Today, we are still exploiting ERS data and experts continue to work on improving the altimeter, radiometer and SAR data the programme acquired.
News - Data Release news
New ERS-2 GOME Level 1 v5.1 dataset available online
A new GOME Level 1b dataset has been generated for the 16-year mission period bringing relevant quality improvements for the revised calibration approach, compensating aging and instrument degradation, and provide enhanced accessibility.
Event - Conference
Living Planet Symposium 2022
Learn about the 2022 edition of ESA's Living Planet Symposium.
Data - EO Sign In Authentication (Open)
Land Ice Thematic Data Product [ALT_TDP_LI]
This is the Land Ice Thematic Data Product (TDP) V1 resulting from the ESA FDR4ALT project and containing estimates of ice sheet surface elevation and associated uncertainties. The collection covers data for three different missions: ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat, and based on Level 1 data coming from previous reprocessing (ERS REAPER and the Envisat V3.0) but taking into account the improvements made at Level 0/Level 1 in the frame of FDR4ALT (ALT FDR). The Land Ice TDP focuses specifically on the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, providing these data in different files. For many aspects, the Land Ice Level 2 and Level 2+ processing is very innovative: Improved relocation approach correcting for topographic effects within the beam footprint to identify the Point of Closest Approach Homogeneous timeseries of surface elevation measurements at regular along-track reference nodes. The FDR4ALT products are available in NetCDF format. Free standard tools for reading NetCDF data can be used. Information for expert altimetry users is also available in a dedicated NetCDF group within the products. Please consult the FDR4ALT Product User Guide before using the data. The FDR4ALT datasets represent the new reference data for the ERS/Envisat altimetry missions, superseding any previous mission data. Users are strongly encouraged to make use of these datasets for optimal results.
News - Spotlight on EO community
Introducing Mirko Albani
In this short introduction, ESA's Heritage Missions Programme Manager describes what he likes most about ESA's long term archive of satellite mission data and his role in the programme.