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  • News - Maintenance News

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    ESA Data Dissemination Maintenance - 18 January 2024

    A planned software maintenance activity will affect ESA's GOCE data dissemination service on 18 January 2024.

  • Document - Product Document

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    GOCE impact of re-processed Level 1b data on gravity field products

    This technical note summarizes the status of the GOCE Level 2 products obtained at the end of the nominal operational phase of GOCE.

  • Document - Product Document

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    GOCE Level 2 Product Report

    This technical note summarises the status of the GOCE Level 2 products obtained at the end of the nominal operational phase of GOCE.

  • News - Success Stories

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    Long-term satellite data show wind farms can affect local air currents

    Decades of satellite data have allowed for the first long-term study of the impact of offshore wind farms on downstream wind flow in coastal areas.

  • Event - Workshop

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    1st International GOCE User Workshop

    The workshop provided a forum for presentations and discussions on the development, use and exploitation of GOCE Level 2 (global and regional) geoid products and Level 3 (science and application) data products.

  • Data - EO Sign In Authentication (Open)

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    ICEYE ESA archive

    The ICEYE ESA archive collection consists of ICEYE Level 1 products requested by ESA supported projects over their areas of interest around the world. The dataset regularly grows as ESA collects new products over the years. Three different modes are available: Spot: With a slant resolution of 50 cm in range by 25 cm in azimuth that translated into the ground generates a ground resolution of 1 m over an area of 5 km x 5 km. Due to multi-looking, speckle noise is significantly reduced Strip: The ground swath is 30 x 50 km2 and the ground range resolution is 3 m Scan: A large area (100 km x 100 km is acquired with ground resolution of 15 m). Two different processing levels: Single Look Complex (SLC): Level 1A geo-referenced product and stored in the satellite's native image acquisition geometry (the slant imaging plane) Ground Range Detected (GRD): Level 1B product; detected, multi-looked and projected to ground range using an Earth ellipsoid model; the image coordinates are oriented along the flight direction and along the ground range; no image rotation to a map coordinate system is performed, interpolation artefacts not introduced. The following table defines the offered product types: EO-SIP Product Type Mode Processing level XN_SM__SLC Strip Single Look Complex (SLC) - Level 1A XN_SM__GRD Strip Ground Range Detected (GRD) - Level 1B XN_SL__SLC Spot Single Look Complex (SLC) - Level 1A XN_SL__GRD Spot Ground Range Detected (GRD) - Level 1B XN_SR__GRD Scan Ground Range Detected (GRD) - Level 1B As per ESA policy, very high-resolution data over conflict areas cannot be provided.

  • Document - Proceedings

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    EO-Summer-School-6-Gravity-and-Earth-Sciences.pdf

    This presentation from ESA's EO Summer School describes gravity and Earth sciences

  • Document - Proceedings

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    EO-Summer-School-6-ESA-explorer-mission-GOCE-earth-gravity-from-space.pdf

    This presentation from ESA's EO Summer School 6 presents the ESA explorer mission GOCE earth gravity from space

  • Event - Conference

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    Living Planet Symposium 2022

    Learn about the 2022 edition of ESA's Living Planet Symposium.

  • News - Events and Proceedings

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    Data preservation takes centre stage at Living Planet Symposium

    Against the backdrop of the famed Rhine River, world-class scientists and Earth observation data-users are gathered this week in the historical city of Bonn, at the Living Planet Symposium (LPS).

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    How ESA uses space data to explore deep Earth

    As anthropogenic activities continue to unbalance our environment, scientists strive to fully understand the intricate interactions within Earth’s system.

  • News - Spotlight on EO community

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    Interviewing Mirko Albani

    ESA’s Heritage Space Programme Manager describes the goals of the programme, some of the challenges involved in preserving and improving 40 years of historical Earth observation data, and his passion for curating this long-term archive.

  • News - Data Release news

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    TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X WorldDEM data now available to users

    WorldDEM products have been added to the TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X offering and are now available to users for research and application development following submission of a project proposal subject to evaluation and acceptance by ESA and the data owner.

  • Event - Workshop

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    2nd International GOCE User Workshop

    This workshop provided a forum for presenting progress on the development of the GOCE mission's payload, ground segment and data products.

  • Event - Workshop

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    3rd International GOCE User Workshop

    This workshop focussed on the oceanographic applications, such as absolute dynamic topography, of GOCE data in conjunction with other space-borne data, such as radar altimetry, and in-situ data and models.

  • News - Success Stories

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    Earth Observation data to improve navigation risk modelling and shipping routes

    With the increased frequency of shipping activities, such as tourism and transport of freights, navigation safety has become a major concern. Even if new technologies have already supplied aids to pilots for navigation risk reduction, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) reports that the majority of accidents could have been avoided by providing suitable input to the navigation decision-making process — this is where Earth Observation data can represent complementary information, to improve traffic monitoring and guidance along safe routes.

  • Document - General Reference

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    GOCE-Facts-and-Figures.pdf

    This fact sheet gives a quick and complete overview of the GOCEmission.

  • Document - Proceedings

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    2nd-International-GOCE-User-Workshop.pdf

    This document describes the proceedings of the 2nd International GOCE User workshop held at the ESA-ESRIN Site, Frascati, Italy, 8-10 March 2004.

  • News - Infographics

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    GOCE – An overview of ESA’s gravity satellite mission

    Learn more about ESA's first Earth Explorer - the Gravity field and Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mission - in our latest infographic.

  • Activity - General activities

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    GSCB and LTDP

    The Copernicus programme is based on a fleet of European Earth observation satellites, built and operated by ESA, member states and commercial entities. Copernicus will also offer data from non-European satellites.