Document - Product Specifications

wind-scatterometer-processing-requirements-from-sigma-nought-triplets-to-dealiased-wind.pdf

This document defines the ground processing algorithms for the ERS-1 AMI wind mode (Scatterometer) from the sigma nought triplets to the wind speed and direction, including the wind retrieval and the ambiguity removal processing.

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.

News - Events and Proceedings

Very High Resolution data to take centre stage

In the last few years, European New Space providers have helped strengthen the offering of very high resolution remote sensing data products—a designated workshop this November aims to focus on the latest developments in this arena.

Document - Technical Note

UWA Processing Algorithm Specification

This technical note specifies version 2 of the algorithm to derive SAR wave spectrum products from ERS AMI wave mode data.

Document - User Guide

User's Guide to NASDA's SAR products

This document summarises the algorithms to obtain geometric and radiometric information from NASDA's JERS SAR products. It includes a list of the physical information to be derived from the JERS SAR products. Not applicable for JERS SAR data generated by ESA (only for NASDA data).

Document - User Guide

User Guide for JERS-1 SAR data format

This document describes the Computer Compatible Tape (CCT) format and the film format for JERS-1's Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data process in EOC. The EOC's CCT product conforms to the CEOS SAR data products format Standard.

Event - Workshop

URBIS24

URBan Insights from Space (URBIS24) Workshop will offer an insightful exploration of urban challenges and innovative EO-integrated solutions.

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.

Document - General Reference

Two Years of ERS-1 Data Exploitation

This bulletin reports on the first two years of the ERS-1 satellite.

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 - Technical Note

Tracking a Tropical Cyclone with ERS-Scatt report

Tracking a Tropical Cyclone with ERS-Scatt: a CMOD4 Model Review

Document - Publication - Paper

Tracking a Tropical Cyclone with ERS-Scatt paper

Tracking a Tropical Cyclone with ERS-Scatt: a CMOD Model Review

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 - Proceedings

Thematic Applications of SAR Data

This document presents the proceedings from a workshop held at ESA/ESRIN in Frascati, Italy, from 09 to 11 September 1985 regarding the ERS mission and the SAR instrument.

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 - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

The-Calibration-of-the-ERS-1-Radar-Altimeter.pdf

This report describes the calibration of ERS-1's Radar Altimeter during the commissioning phase, which used Venice as a basis for calibration.

Document - Technical Note

The SeaSat-A Synthetic Aperture Radar System

The SeaSat-A synthetic aperture radar imaging radar system (SAR) was the first imaging radar system used as a scientific instrument from Earth orbit. The system generated continuous radar imagery with a 100 km swath at a resolution of 25 m from an 800 km altitude orbit. The imagery is a pictorial representation of the radar backscatter of the Earth's surface in a map-like representation.

Document - Publication - Paper

The Performance of the ERS-2 SAR on becoming a Teenager

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.