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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
The-Changing-Earth-New-Scientific-Challenges-for-ESAs-Living-Planet-Programme.pdf
This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 129.
Document - General Reference
The Science and Research Elements of ESA Living Planet Programme
This document presents the plans for the Earth Explorer element of the European Space Agency's 'Living Planet' Programme for Earth Observation.
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
SMOS-ESAs-Water-Mission-Fact-sheet.pdf
This document provided a series of information on the SMOS mission.
Document - General Reference
Sentinel-1-The-Radar-Mission-for-GMES-Land-and-Sea-Services.pdf
This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 131.
Activity - Quality
SCIRoCCo
The SCIRoCCo project is an interdisciplinary cooperation of scatterometry experts aimed at promoting the continuing exploitation of ESA's unique 20 years' worth of ERS Scatterometer data.
Document - General Reference
Remote-Sensing-and-marine-ecology.pdf
This volume collects the lecture notes of the training course on Marine Remote Sensing and its applications, held on 15-26 June 1998 at ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. The lectures were held in italian: the book is available in italian only.
Activity - Quality
REAPER
The REAPER (REprocessing of Altimeter Products for ERS) project covers both the ERS-1 and the ERS-2 altimetry missions. The project aims to support and maintain data quality.
Document - Proceedings
PolInSAR-2007-Proceedings-of-the-3rd-International-Workshop-on-Science-and-Applications-of-SAR-Polarimetry-and-Polarimetric-Interferometry.pdf
Proceedings of PolInSAR 2007 held in Frascati, Italy on from 22-26 January 2007.
Document - General Reference
New-Views-of-the-Earth-Applications-Achievements-of-ERS-1.pdf
This document describes the Applications Achievements of ERS-1 and includes colour illustrations and images.
Document - General Reference
New-views-of-Earth-Scientific-achievements-of-ERS-1.pdf
This document concentrates on the scientific achievements of the ERS-1 satellite. Its purpose is to present examples of high quality scientific work which clearly demonstrate that ERS-1 data are being used extensively within the international science community.
News - Data Release news
New reprocessing of datasets celebrates 30 years of ERS
The ERS programme celebrated its 30th anniversary on 17 July. Today, we are still exploiting ERS data and experts continue to work on improving the altimeter, radiometer and SAR data the programme acquired.
News - Data Release news
New ERS-2 GOME Level 1 v5.1 dataset available online
A new GOME Level 1b dataset has been generated for the 16-year mission period bringing relevant quality improvements for the revised calibration approach, compensating aging and instrument degradation, and provide enhanced accessibility.
Document - General Reference
Medspiration-A-Precursor-to-the-GMES-Marine-Core-Service-Sea-Surface-Thematic.pdf
This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr. 132.
Event - Conference
Living Planet Symposium 2022
Learn about the 2022 edition of ESA's Living Planet Symposium.
News - Spotlight on EO community
Introducing Mirko Albani
In this short introduction, ESA's Heritage Missions Programme Manager describes what he likes most about ESA's long term archive of satellite mission data and his role in the programme.
News - Spotlight on EO community
Interviewing Mirko Albani
ESA’s Heritage Space Programme Manager describes the goals of the programme, some of the challenges involved in preserving and improving 40 years of historical Earth observation data, and his passion for curating this long-term archive.
Document - General Reference
Highlights-of-the-ERS-Envisat-Symposium.pdf
This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 105 and providesdetails on the achievements of the ESA's Earth ObservationProgramme following the Gothenburg's symposium.