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News - General News
ESA's improved Earth system data records: what is in store for the future?
Fundamental Data Records (FDRs) are instrumental in advancing our understanding of Earth systems and for addressing societal challenges effectively. These long-term records contain uncertainty-quantified, calibrated and geo-located multi-instrument/multi-platform satellite sensor data spanning several decades to support climate-related applications.
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 - 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 - 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 - Infographics
ERS - ESA’s first Earth observation satellites
To mark the 30th anniversary of ERS, we've released a new infographic summarising the mission.
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.
Mission - Heritage Missions
ERS
The ERS programme was composed of two missions, ERS-1 and ERS-2, which together observed the Earth for 20 years, from 1991 to 2011.
Document - User Guide
ERS-1 Altimeter Products User Manual
The Altimeter Products User Manual describes the ERS-1 products for user's reference.
Event - Training
Advanced Training Course in Land Remote Sensing 2012
The 2012 advanced training course focused on land remote sensing theory and applications.
Event - Training
3rd Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing 2011
This 2011 advanced ESA training course focused on land remote sensing theory and applications.
Event - Workshop
CEOS-IVOS Workshop on Inter-comparison of Large Scale Optical and Infrared Sensors
The 2004 workshop was an opportunity to present and exchange experiences and knowledge from work on inter-comparing large scale optical sensors at different product levels.
Event - Workshop
Applications of the ERS Along Track Scanning Radiometer Workshop 1999
The workshop on ERS mission's Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) instrument gathered researchers and specialists working on different applications of the mission.
Event - Conference
3rd ERS Symposium
The ESA Directorate for Observation of the Earth and its Environment held the 3rd ERS Symposium, in 1997, where many of the results from the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions were presented and discussed by the scientific community.
Document - Product Readme Note
ERS-1-and-2-manoeuvres-history-since-launch.pdf
The objective of this technical note is to give all information related to manoeuvres performed on ERS satellites since their launch on 17 July 1991 for ERS-1 and 21 April 1995 for ERS-2 up to the end of 1995.
Document - General Reference
ERS-1-Mission-Announcement-of-Opportunity.pdf
The ERS-1 Announcement of Opportunity for basic scientific research studies and application-oriented projects issued in 1986 resulted in approximately 250 Proposals Principal Investigators (Pl's) being accepted within the ERS-1 Science and Application Plan.
Document - General Reference
ERS-1-Ground-Segment-Acronyms-Abbreviations-and-glossary-of-terminology.pdf
This document contains the acronyms, abbreviations and glossary of terminology for the ERS-1 project, mainly in the area of the Ground Segment.
Document - General Reference
ERS-1-A-keen-eye-on-the-Earth.pdf
This document presents a brief overview of the ERS mission and the main features of the satellite and its instruments.