Document - General Reference

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

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.

Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

Visible Channel Long Term Drift Analysis Using Desert Targets

Visible Channel Long Term Drift Analysis Using Desert Targets. The stability of AATSR visible channel calibrations have been measured using data from stable desert targets. The calibration drift rates obtained from the time-series are less than 3.5% per year and comparable to those measured for ATSR-2. Application of the drift correction to AATSR L1B images is discussed.

Document - Software Verification Plan/Report

Verification of the BUFR Form of the AATSR Meteo Product

Verification of the BUFR Form of the AATSR Meteo Product. This document describes the verification applied to the AATSR Meteo product (ATS_MET_AX) in its BUFR form

Document - Technical Note

Validation of SST products from the ATSR V3-0 dataset

Document - Technical Note

Update-on-AATSR-Visible-Channel-Long-Term-Trends.pdf

This document contains calibration guidance for the AATSR instrument.

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.

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 - Topography Mission

This report for assessment addresses the Topography 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 - 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 Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Earth Radiation Mission

This report for assessment addresses the Earth Radiation 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 - Atmospheric Dynamics MIssion

This report for assessment addresses the Atmospheric Dynamics 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 - Atmospheric Chemistry Mission

This report for assessment addresses the Atmospheric Chemistry mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.

Document - General Reference

The MSG System - consisting of a Space Segment and a Ground Segment, designed to provide data, based on a series of three satellites called MSG-1, -2 and -3

This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 111.

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 In-Orbit Commissioning of MSG-1

This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 114.

Document - General Reference

The four Candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions - Earth Radiation Mission

This report describes the Earth Radiation Mission, one of the four Candidate Earth Explorers in 1999.