Document - Proceedings

Advances-in-Atmospheric-Science-and-Applications.pdf

Proceedings in Advances in Atmospheric Science and Applications held in 18-22 June 2012 in Bruges, Belgium.

Tools - Catalogues

EO CAT

EO CAT is a data catalogue, offering a Next Generation Earth Observation system designed to manage end-user Earth Observation services.

Event - Workshop

EO for Agriculture Under Pressure 2024

EO for Agriculture Under Pressure 2024 Workshop follows up from previous events, bringing together the large community working on EO-based science and solutions for agriculture.

Tools - Catalogues

FedEO

FedEO is a data catalogue that provides a unique entry point to a number of scientific catalogues and services for, but not limited to, European and Canadian missions.

Mission - Earth Explorers

FLEX

The FLEX mission will provide global maps of vegetation fluorescence, which can be converted into an indicator of photosynthetic activity.

Campaign

FLEXSense 2018

The 2018 Fluorescence Explorer Sense (FLEXSense) campaign combined various field activities in preparation for the FLEX satellite mission.

Data - Campaigns (Open)

FLEXSense 2018

The 2018 Fluorescence Explorer Sense (FLEXSense) campaign combined various field activities in preparation for the FLEX satellite mission.

Event - Meeting

Fluorescence (FLEX) 2019

The FLEX 2019 meeting consisted of a series of events addressing remote sensing of vegetation fluorescence.

News - Thematic area articles

Global understanding of Earth's land surfaces greatly boosted by satellite data

ESA perform land surface monitoring with a range of instruments onboard satellites acquiring optical and radar data. Collections of data from these missions are freely available for research purposes.

Mission - Heritage Missions

JERS-1

The overall objectives of JERS-1 (Japanese Earth Resources Satellite) were the generation of global data sets with SAR and OPS sensors aimed at surveying resources, establishing an integrated Earth observation system

Data - EO Sign In Authentication (Open)

JERS-1 OPS (Optical Sensor) Very Near Infrared Radiometer (VNIR) System Corrected Products level 1

The JERS-1 Optical System (OPS) is composed of a Very Near Infrared Radiometer (VNIR) and a Short Wave Infrared Radiometer (SWIR). The instrument has 8 observable spectral bands from visible to short wave infrared. Data acquired by ESA ground stations The JERS-1 OPS products are available in GeoTIFF format. These products are available only for the VNIR sensor. All four bands are corrected. The correction consists in a vertical and horizontal destriping, the radiometry values are expanded from the range [0.63] to the range [0.255]. No geometrical correction is applied on level 1. The pixel size of approximately 18 x 24.2 metres for raw data is newly dimensioned to 18 x 18 metres for System Corrected data using a cubic convolution algorithm. Disclaimer: Cloud coverage for JERS OPS products has not been computed using an algorithm. The cloud cover assignment was performed manually by operators at the acquisition stations. Due to missing attitude information, the Nadir looking band (band 3) and the corresponding forward looking band (band 4) are not well coregistered, resulting in some accuracy limitations. The quality control was not performed systematically for each frame. A subset of the entire JERS Optical dataset was selected and manually checked. As a result of this, users may occasionally encounter issues with some of the individual products. Spatial coverage: Check the spatial coverage of the collection on a map available on the Third Party Missions Dissemination Service.

Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

JERS-1- Validation of optical sensor products

Document - Product Specifications

JERS-1-Optical-System-OPS-Format-Description.pdf

This document describes the JERS-1 Optical System data format as delivered by the European Space Agency.

Document - Technical Note

JERS-1-TPML-mission-instrument-characteristics.pdf

This documents contains an over of the JERS-1 mission and instrument characteristics. In particular, it provides details about the mission history and background, and the correction algorithm applied.

News - Infographics

Measuring photosynthetic fluorescence - ESA's FLEX mission

Learn about ESA's upcoming FLEX mission, which is dedicated to gathering information about photosynthetic activity to shed light on the functioning of Earth's vegetation, in our latest infographic.

News - Data Release news

New FLEX-related campaign datasets released

New datasets have been released for three campaigns, covering activities supporting the upcoming FLEX mission.

Tools - Processing

PolSARpro

PolSARpro is a toolbox for the scientific exploitation of polarimetric SAR data and a tool for high-level education in radar polarimetry.

News - Thematic area articles

Satellite data central to ocean monitoring

Over 95% of Earth’s water is found in our oceans, and yet sadly, oceans are under stress from climate change and pollution. Monitoring our oceans is vital for Earth’s survival and satellites are the primary means of long-term and independent observation of our vast ocean bodies and their associated coastal zones.

Tools - Analysis

Sentinel-1 Toolbox

The Toolbox consists of: processing tools, data product readers and writers and a display and analysis application to support the archive of SAR data from ESA and 3rd party missions.

Data - Campaigns (Open)

SoyFLEX 2015

SoyFLEX 2015 took place over the agricultural area around Jülich, Germany and Rzecin wetland site, Poland