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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 - User Guide
User Documentation for (A)ATSR 4th Reprocessing Level 1B Products
This document provides a guide for users of (A)ATSR 4th reprocessing products, giving easily viewed format details, highlighting differences from previous reprocessed products, noting technical features inherent in the products, and giving notification of remaining Open Issues.User Documentation for (A)ATSR 4th Reprocessing Level 1B Products
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.
Data - Data Description
TropForest - ALOS, GEOSAT-1 & KOMPSAT-2 optical coverages over tropical forests
The objective of the ESA TropForest project was to create a harmonised geo-database of ready-to-use satellite imagery to support 2010 global forest assessment performed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Assessments for year 2010 were essential for building realistic deforestation benchmark rates at global to regional levels. To reach this objective, the project aimed to create a harmonised ortho-rectified/pre-processed imagery geo-database based on satellite data acquisitions (ALOS AVNIR-2, GEOSAT-1 SLIM6, KOMPSAT-2 MSC) performed during year 2009 and 2010, for the Tropical Latin America (excluding Mexico) and for the Tropical South and Southeast Asia (excluding China), resulting in 1971 sites located at 1° x 1° geographical lat/long intersections. The project finally delivered 1866 sites (94.7% of target) due to cloud coverages too high for missing sites. Spatial coverage: Check the spatial coverage of the collection on a map available on the Third Party Missions Dissemination Service.
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.
Activity - Projects
TOLEOS
The TOLEOS (Thermosphere Observations from Low-Earth Orbiting Satellites) project will produce thermosphere mass density observations from the accelerometer measurements of the GRACE, GRACE-FO, and CHAMP satellites.
Document - General Reference
TIGER Initiative - Looking After Water in Africa
This brochure presents images from the second TIGER Workshop, held in Pretoria from 08 to 10 November 2004. The images show locations in Africa acquired by Meteosat-8, Envisat's ASAR and MERIS instruments and Proba-1's HRC instrument.
Document - Proceedings
Third ESA International Conference on Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems
The proceedings from the Third ESA International Conference on Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems, which took place at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, from 26 to 29 November 1996, are presented here.
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-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.