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News - Events and Proceedings
Workshop celebrates end of long-running PROBA-1 satellite
In January, ESA will mark the end of its long-running CHRIS sensor onboard the PROBA-1 satellite in a special workshop.
News - Spotlight on EO community
Introducing the EarthCARE Mission Manager
In this video, Björn Frommknecht describes his role as Mission Manager of EarthCARE, and what he enjoys most about his involvement with this upcoming Earth Explorer.
News - Success Stories
New cross-calibration readies PROBA-1 data for climate research
While PROBA-1 has already exceeded expectations by suppling over 21 years of Earth observation hyperspectral data, recent cross-calibration activities are aiming to ensure the data will robustly serve long time-series research, even when the satellite ends operations.
News - Infographics
EarthCARE - ESA's cloud, aerosol and radiation explorer mission
Learn about ESA’s upcoming cloud, aerosol and radiation explorer mission – EarthCARE – in our latest infographic.
Document - Data Access Information
ESA-archive-third-party-mission-collections.pdf
Discover the ESA archive data collections offered for the Third Party Missions programme.
Tools - Catalogues
FedEO
FedEO is a data catalogue that provides a unique entry point to a number of scientific catalogues and services for, but not limited to, European and Canadian missions.
Tools - Catalogues
EO CAT
EO CAT is a data catalogue, offering a Next Generation Earth Observation system designed to manage end-user Earth Observation services.
News - Infographics
A summary of ESA Third Party Mission collections
A new summary is available, showcasing the ESA archives for Third Party Mission collections.
News - Infographics
PROBA-1 - From technology demonstration to long-term Earth observation
Learn about ESA's PROBA-1 (Project for On-Board Autonomy) mission in our new infographic.
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.
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.
Document - Algorithms Theoretical Baseline Document
EarthCARE-CPR-L1B-ATBD.pdf
This document describes the theoretical basis of Level 1b algorithm, except for the spacecraft data processing, for the EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR).
Document - Product Document
EarthCARE-CPR-L1B-PDD.pdf
The purpose of this document is to specify the format and content of the L1 products for the EarthCARE CPR (Cloud Profiling Radar).
News - General News
Release of CHRIS PROBA-1 toolbox for SNAP
PROBA -1 continues to provide valuable hyperspectral data to the scientific community, and so the tools to handle this data have been incorporated into ESA’s SNAP multi-mission toolbox.
Data - EO Sign In Authentication (Open)
PROBA-1 HRC
The HRC Level 1A product is an image with a pixel resolution of 8m. The data are grey scale images, an image contains 1026 x 1026 pixels and covers an area of 25 km2. HRC data is supplied in BMP format. All PROBA-1 passes are systematically acquired according to the current acquisition plan, HRC data are processed every day to Level 1A and made available to ESA users. Spatial coverage: Check the spatial coverage of the collection on a map available on the Third Party Missions Dissemination Service.
Mission - Third Party Missions
PROBA-1
PROBA-1 is a technology demonstration satellite that later became an operational Earth observation mission.
Data - Announcement of Opportunity (Restrained)
CLOSED - EarthCARE Calibration and Validation Announcement of Opportunity
ESA offered an announcement of opportunity to support the calibration and validation of EarthCARE products. This opportunity closed in 2017.
Document - Publication - Paper
Comparing Three Canopy Reflectance Models with Hyperspectral Multi-Angular Satellite Data
Studies that compare modelled reflectances with satellite-measured reflectances for different wavelengths and view angles are still rare. We compared model outputs from three different canopy reflectance models (SLC, FRT and INFORM) with satellite measured reflectances (Chris/PROBA).
Document - Publication - Paper
Mapping of chlorophyll and suspended particulate matter maps from CHRIS imagery of the Oostende ---
The image set created on 5 August 2003 by CHRIS/PROBA is analyzed to assess the feasibility of producing suspended particulate matter (SPM) and chlorophyll (CHL) maps.