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 - Success Stories

New worldwide dataset captures the planet in fine detail

Scientists have developed an open source planetwide dataset of high-resolution Earth observation imagery, thanks to commercial data delivered by ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme.

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.

Data - Project Proposal (Restrained)

SPOT-6 to 7 full archive and tasking

The SPOT 6 and 7 satellites ensure data continuity with the no longer operational SPOT 5 satellite and provide an archive of very high resolution optical acquisition as well as the possibility to task the satellites for new acquisitions. Following the completion of the SPOT 7 mission in March 2023, new acquisition tasking is only available for the SPOT 6 satellite. The ortho-products are automatically generated by the SPOT 6 and 7 ground segment, based on SRTM database or Reference3D when available. The projection available for SPOT 6 and 7 ortho-products is UTM, datum WGS84. Bands combinations: Pansharpened: colour image at 1.5 m resolution Bundle: 1.5 m panchromatic image and 6 m multispectral image. Geometric processing levels: Primary: The Primary product is the processing level closest to the natural image acquired by the sensor. This product restores perfect collection conditions: the sensor is placed in rectilinear geometry, and the image is clear of all radiometric distortion. Standard Ortho: The Ortho product is a georeferenced image in Earth geometry, corrected from acquisition and terrain off-nadir effects. Tailored ortho: Aside from the Standard Ortho product, when different specifications are needed, a custom orthorectification, with a more precise 3D model provided by the client or acquired for the purpose, can be provided on demand. As per ESA policy, very high-resolution imagery of conflict areas cannot be provided.

Data - Fast Registration with approval (Restrained)

SPOT 6 and 7 ESA archive

The SPOT 6 and 7 ESA archive is a dataset of SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 products that ESA collected over the years. The dataset regularly grows as ESA collects new SPOT 6 and 7 products. SPOT 6 and 7 Primary and Ortho products can be available in the following modes: Panchromatic image at 1.5m resolution Pansharpened colour image at 1.5m resolution Multispectral image in 4 spectral bands at 6m resolution Bundle (1.5m panchromatic image + 6m multispectral image) Spatial coverage: Check the spatial coverage of the collection on a map available on the Third Party Missions Dissemination Service. As per ESA policy, very high-resolution imagery of conflict areas cannot be provided.

Mission - Third Party Missions

PROBA-1

PROBA-1 is a technology demonstration satellite that later became an operational Earth observation mission.

Mission - Heritage Missions

SPOT

The SPOT (from French "Satellite pour l'Observation de la Terre") series of missions has been supplying high-resolution, wide-area optical imagery since 1986.

Document - Proceedings

Hyperspectral Workshop 2010

Proceedings of the Hyperspectral Workshop 2010 held on 17-18 March 2010 in ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. This workshop was organised by the European Space Agency (ESA), the German Aerospace Center (DLR)/the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI).

Document - General Reference

Overview of an Intelligent Sensorweb for Integrated Earth Sensing Project

Document - General Reference

Earth from Space - 5 Years of Proba

Mission - Heritage Missions

SPOT 7

SPOT 7 (also known as Azersky), like all of the other SPOT missions, was aimed at supplying high-resolution, wide-area optical imagery.

Mission - Third Party Missions

SPOT 6

SPOT 6, like all the SPOT missions, is aimed at supplying high-resolution, wide-area optical imagery.

Document - Product Readme Note

Retrieving-Canopy-Structure-from-Hyperspectral-Multi-Angular-Satellite-Data.pdf

This article was presented at the 5th EARSeL SIG IS workshop Imaging Spectroscopy : Innovation in Environmental Research held on 23-25 April 2007 in Bruges, Belgium, ed. By I. Reusen and J. Cools. EARSEL, 2007. 7 p.

Document - Proceedings

3rd-CHRIS-Proba-Workshop.pdf

Proceedings of the 3rd CHRIS/Proba Workshop, held from 21-23 March 2005 at ESA-ESRIN in Frascati, Italy.

Document - General Reference

BIOMASS-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-forest-biomass.pdf

The objective of the BIOMASS Mission is to determine the global distribution of forest biomass by reducing the uncertainty in the calculation of carbon stock and fluxes associated with the terrestrial biosphere.

Document - General Reference

Autonomy-in-action-Ten-years-of-Proba-1.pdf

This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr.148.

Document - General Reference

Big-year-for-small-satellite-ESAs-second-in-orbit-technology-demonstration-mission-Proba-2.pdf

This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr.144.

Document - General Reference

Earth-from-Space-Russia-and-Ukraine.pdf

This brochure is a collection of KOMPSAT EOC; ERS-2 SAR; Envisat ASAR, MERIS and Proba CHRIS, HRC mosaics.

Document - General Reference

Earth-from-Space-South-America.pdf

This brochure is a collection of Envisat MERIS, Envisat ASAR and PROBA CHRIS mosaics of South America. The attached CD-rom contains the same images in electronic version.

Document - General Reference

Earth-from-Space-Deserts.pdf

This brochure is a collection of Envisat MERIS, Envisat ASAR, Proba and Landsat mosaics of desert areas on our planet.