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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 - Proceedings
Second-EPS-MetOp-RAO-Workshop.pdf
Proceedings of the 2nd EPS/MetOp RAO Workshop held from 20-22 May 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.
News - Success Stories
Satellites track the health of the ozone layer
ESA’s Earth observation activities are contributing to international efforts to monitor and preserve the layer of stratospheric ozone that blankets the planet.
Document - General Reference
Meteosat-Second-Generation.pdf
This flyer summarises in short the aims, applications and technology of the MSG mission.
Document - General Reference
Meteosat-Second-Generation-The-Satellite-Development.pdf
This publication provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the MSG programme, the mission objectives, the design and development of the MSG spacecraft.
Document - Technical Note
Long-Term-Monitoring-of-GOME-Diffuser-Reflectivity-and-Dark-Signal-Analysis-v2.pdf
This document provides an update on the diffuser degradation analysis of the GOME instrument aboard ERS-2, using the monthly calibration data from June 1995 and August 2001.
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.
News - Success Stories
How Envisat helped to shape global understanding of Earth’s systems
Twenty years have passed since a ground-breaking European spacecraft designed to deliver unprecedented insight into the planet’s changing environment was lofted into orbit.
Tools - Apps
Heritage Missions app for iOS
Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.
Tools - Apps
Heritage Missions app for Android
Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.
Document - Technical Note
GOME-Software-Databases-for-Level-1-to-2-Processing.pdf
This technical note contains summary descriptions of the climatological and spectroscopic databases required for the execution of the GOME Level 1 to 2 Data Processing Chain.
Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report
GOME-Ozone-Fast-Delivery-and-value-added-products-Validation-Document.pdf
This document gives an overview of the results of the validation of the ERS GOME Fast Delivery level 2 data (vertical ozone columns). Validation is an important part of the the GOFAP project and involves the assessing of the quality of the Fast Delivery vertical ozone columns by independent means and provides an estimate of the random and systematic errors.
Document - Product Document
GOME-Ozone-Fast-Delivery-and-value-added-products-Algorithm-Specification-Document.pdf
This document describes the algorithms used for calibration the ERS GOME Ozone Fast Delivery products.
Document - Technical Note
GOME-Diffuser-and-Dark-Signal-Trends-June-1995-June-2002.pdf
This document provides an analysis of the GOME diffuser plate stability and the detector array dark signal measurements during time period June 1995 - June 2002.
Document - Technical Note
GOME-1-calibration-Lamp-anomaly-investigation.pdf
This study examines an anomaly which developed in the cathode gas discharge lamp in the GOME instrument aboard ERS-2 during calibration.
News - Data Release news
GOME TCWV Climate product available online
GOME Total Column Water Vapour (TCWV) Climate product developed within the ESA GOME-Evolution project is now accessible from the ESA data archives together with the ERS-2 GOME data.