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• News - Infographics

  

  Explore sample data products from Third Party Missions

  ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of over 50 satellite missions from commercial and public organisations worldwide.

• Data - Sample Data (Open)

  

  PlanetScope Sample Data

  Download free PlanetScope sample datasets to preview products available for this mission.

• Data - Sample Data (Open)

  

  IRS-P6 (ResourceSat-1) Sample Data

  Download free IRS-P6 (ResourceSat-1) sample datasets to preview products available for this mission.

• News - General News

  

  Go-to guide to Third Party Mission data offering

  ESA’s latest Third Party Missions Data Access Guide has been published, providing technical details and information on available data collections for all current or past Third Party Missions.

• News - Data Release news

  

  Sample data products from ESA’s Third Party Missions

  Samples of data products from a range of Third Party Missions are now available to download, offering a preview of what these missions provide.

• News - Thematic area articles

  

  How to use space data to probe humankind’s ancient past

  Data disseminated by ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme are enabling archaeological investigations that could help to unravel the mysteries of past societies and cultures.

• News - Infographics

  

  Focusing on the PlanetScope ESA archive

  Learn more about the PlanetScope ESA Archive in our latest infographic.

• News - Thematic area articles

  

  Cloud-free collections key for land monitoring

  Satellite imagery is a crucially important tool for monitoring the land, but cloud cover can often block parts of Earth’s surface from view, limiting subsequent analyses.

• News - Success Stories

  

  Commercial space data help to regreen grasslands in Africa

  Commercial satellite imagery made available through ESA’s Third Party Missions programme is guiding an ambitious community-focused initiative to regrow natural grasslands in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• News - Success Stories

  

  TPM data help advance plastic litter detection from space

  Several innovative ESA Discovery element projects exploring remote sensing of plastic marine litter lean on commercial satellite data disseminated via the Agency’s Third Party Mission programme.

• News - Thematic area articles

  

  Remote sensing data map impacts of natural hazards

  As climate change increases the frequency and severity of natural disasters, remote sensing data can warn about extreme events and help tackle emergency situations.

• News - Thematic area articles

  

  Remote sensing data underpin research on soil

  Environmental data disseminated by ESA’s Earth observation programmes provide knowledge about the stresses on Earth’s soils – aiding many applications such as crop management, drought and flood forecasting, and ecosystem protection.

• News - General News

  

  International collaboration: Summarising ESA’s Third Party Missions

  ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world. Learn more about the Third Party Missions in this video.

• News - Success Stories

  

  Showcasing success stories from ESA's Third Party Missions

  ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world.

• 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

  

  Satellites investigate Earth’s terrestrial hydrosphere

  ESA’s Earth observation satellites are playing a leading role in furthering our understanding of how Earth’s water cycle is being influenced by humankind.

• Document - Data Access Information

  

  ESA-archive-third-party-mission-collections.pdf

  Discover the ESA archive data collections offered for the Third Party Missions programme.

• News - Thematic area articles

  

  How satellite data help to shape society

  Data from ESA’s Earth observation archives are improving understanding of the interactions between human activities and the environment, helping to power green economic development and boosting prosperity in Europe and beyond.

• News - Data Release news

  

  New Data Voucher for Planetscope on-demand

  ESA’s Third Party Missions Programme offers researchers, scientists and companies from around the world access to Planet’s high-frequency, high-resolution satellite data for non-commercial use.

• News - Data Release news

  

  Two new ESA archive collections have been opened for PlanetScope and SkySat

  PlanetScope ESA archive and SkySat ESA archive collections are available through ESA’s Third Party Missions programme via Fast Approval Registration.