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  • Documents (296)
  • News - Infographics

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    What are the next Earth Explorers?

    Learn about the planned missions in the Earth Explorers programme - EarthCARE, Biomass, FLEX, and FORUM - which will further our understanding of Earth’s climate.

  • Document - General Reference

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    WATS - Water Vapour and Temperature in the Troposphere and Stratosphere.pdf

    This report describes the WATS mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.

  • Document - Technical Note

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    WALES - Water Vapour Lidar Experiment in Space

    This report describes the WALES mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.

  • Data - EO Sign In Authentication (Open)

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    VT GOCE Data

    This collection contains the VT GOCE software and associated data set needed to run the software that is used for GOCE data visualisation.

  • Event - Meeting

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    VH-RODA and CEOS SAR workshop

    The workshop provided an open forum for the presentation and discussion of current status and future developments related to the calibration and validation of space borne very high-resolution SAR and optical sensors and data products.

  • News - Data Release news

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    Version 2.0 of GOCE thermosphere reprocessed data released

    Version 2.0 of the GOCE thermosphere dataset is now available on the GOCE Online Dissemination Service.

  • Document - Software Verification Plan/Report

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    User Toolbox Requirements Document - GOCE User Toolbox Specifications (GUTS)

    Deliverable: WP2000: This document provides user requirement for the GOCE User Toolbox, designed around the GOCE mission.

  • Document - General Reference

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    Understanding our Planet - the Earth Observation Envelope Program

    This brochure describes the Earth Observation Envelope Programme.

  • Document - General Reference

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    Understanding climate change from space

    This document describes ESA's Climate Change Initiative, and how it is intended to contribute towards monitoring and understanding the Earth's climate.

  • Campaign

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    TropiScat

    The major objectives of the experiment were the temporal survey of the variation of the measurements in time scales ranging from diurnal, weekly, monthly, up to 12 months of observation.

  • Campaign

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    TropiSAR 2009

    The TropiSAR campaign objectives were the evaluation of P-Band radar imaging over tropical forests for biomass and forest height estimation.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    Tracking the world’s forests from space

    As human activities continue to threaten the planet’s forests, data delivered by satellites are boosting global efforts to conserve these crucial natural resources.

  • Document - General Reference

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    Towards the Definitive Space Gravity Mission

    This article appeared on the International WOCE Newsletter, issue nr. 33 published on December 1998.

  • Document - General Reference

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    Towards More Efficient Use of Radar-Altimeter Data

    Twenty years ago, experimental altimeters on NASA's Skylab and Geos-3 were already demonstrating the potential of such instrumentation. This led in turn to the development and launch by NASA in July 1978 of the Seasat oceanographic satellite mission. Both Geos-3 and Seasat were very successful in their pioneering missions, but were limited somewhat by poor coverage in the case of Geos-3 and an abnormally short mission duration in Seasat's case.

  • Document - Software Verification Plan/Report

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    Toolbox Functionality and Algorithm Specification Document - GOCE User Toolbox Specifications (GUTS)

    Deliverable: WP3000: This report is the output from WP3000 of the GOCE User Toolbox Specification. The study will select the best (in terms of accuracy and computational demands) algorithms to compute the variables listed in the user requirement document [1]. This document will form the basis for the system specification work performed in WP4000 and the prototype and tutorials to be generated in WP5000, all available in this library.

  • Activity - Projects

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    TOLEOS

    The TOLEOS (Thermosphere Observations from Low-Earth Orbiting Satellites) project will produce thermosphere mass density observations from the accelerometer measurements of the GRACE, GRACE-FO, and CHAMP satellites.

  • News - Infographics

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    Timeline to over 40 years of historical satellite missions

    ESA's Heritage Space Programme preserves historical data from over 40 years of Earth observation missions.

  • Document - Proceedings

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    Third ESA International Conference on Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems

    The proceedings from the Third ESA International Conference on Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems, which took place at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, from 26 to 29 November 1996, are presented here.

  • Document - General Reference

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    The-Changing-Earth-New-Scientific-Challenges-for-ESAs-Living-Planet-Programme.pdf

    This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 129.

  • Document - General Reference

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    The-CEOS-Earth-Observation-Handbook-2008.pdf

    This report presents the main capabilities of satellite Earth observations, their applications, and a systematic overview of present and planned Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) agency Earth observation satellite missions and their instruments. It also explores society's increasing need for information on our planet. This edition has a particular focus on climate change.