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News - Infographics
What is CRYO2ICE?
Learn about CRYO2ICE, an innovative campaign producing near simultaneous acquisitions over Antarctica from the CryoSat and ICESAT-2 missions, in this new infographic.
News - Data Release news
Updated Precise Orbit data (POD) for the full ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission available
The Precise Orbit files (ERS.ORB.POD) for the entire ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission periods have been reprocessed with up-to-date standards.
News - Data Release news
Updated CryoSat magnetometer data now available with new baseline 0201
An improved version of the CryoSat magnetic field data is now available on the Swarm Dissemination Server with new baseline 0201.
News - Data Release news
Updated CryoSat magnetometer data now available
An improved version of the CryoSat magnetic field data (version 0102) is now available in the "#CryoSat-2" folder of the ESA FTP server.
Document - General Reference
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.
News - Thematic area articles
Transforming space data into climate action
ESA’s Earth observation activities are playing a key role in the revitalised global drive to combat climate change.
News - Success Stories
Trailblazing ERS-2 mission enables climate change applications
As ESA’s ERS-2 satellite approaches Earth’s atmosphere for reentry, it’s time to reflect on the mission’s great achievements in powering climate-related applications.
Document - General Reference
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 - General Reference
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.
Document - General Reference
The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Precipitation Mission
This report for assessment addresses the Precipitation mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.
Document - General Reference
The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Magnetometry Mission
This report for assessment addresses the Magnetometry mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.
Document - General Reference
The Living Planet - Observing the Earth - The Earth Observation programme
This brochure provides an overview of ESA's Living Planet Strategy, an Earth Observation programme approved in 1999.
Document - General Reference
The Dragon Programme - ESA and China Cooperate in Earth Observation
This article describes the Dragon programme, a cooperation between ESA and the China's National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSCC) in thedevelopment of Earth Observation applications.
Document - General Reference
The Data User Element
This brochure describes ESA's Data User Element (DUE) programme, which aims to bring together user communities and actors from research institutes, industrial companies and other specialised fields. This collaborative approach ensures the transfer of valid and high quality demonstration products into sustainable environments which meet the practical and operational needs of the user communities .
Document - Technical Note
Telemeter-Instrumentation-Schedule-LMSC-No-1241637.pdf
This Telemetry Instrumentation Schedule contains a listing and channel assignment of all data processed by the Satellite Vehicle System (SVS) data system. A brief description of the telemetry format is included.
News - Data Release news
Systematic swath elevation and monthly DEMs over the Greenland Ice Sheet margin from CryoSat
The CryoTEMPO-EOLIS (Elevation Over Land Ice from Swath), the first of the CryoTEMPO products, is now available.
News - Data Release news
Systematic swath elevation and monthly DEMs over the Antarctica Ice Sheet margin from CryoSat 2
Land-ice is declining globally, raising sea levels worldwide and impacting glacial risks and access to fresh-water in high-mountain glaciers regions.
Document - General Reference
Sustainable-Development-The-Space-Contribution-From-Rio-to-Johannesburg-Progress-over-the-last-10-years.pdf
This information guide illustrates how the space community is working to fulfil the aims of the World Summit 2002 in topics such as: Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Livelihoods, Protecting and Managing the Natural Resource Base, Sustainable Development Initiatives for Africa, Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Means of Implementation.
News - General News
Stunning new features for ESA and NASA altimetry portal cs2eo.org
Working with combined ESA and NASA altimetry data is easier than ever thanks to a range of handy new features on cs2eo.org.
Document - General Reference
Spacelab-in-context.pdf
This document provides an overview of Spacelab, a joint ESA-NASA laboratory that was carried aboard space shuttles from 1981 to 2000.