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News - Thematic area articles
Monitoring water on Earth's surface
ESA's Earth observation satellites are playing a leading role in furthering our understanding of how Earth's terrestrial hydrosphere is being influenced by humankind.
News - Thematic area articles
Satellites investigate Earth’s terrestrial hydrosphere
ESA’s Earth observation satellites are playing a leading role in furthering our understanding of how Earth’s water cycle is being influenced by humankind.
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.
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.
Document - General Reference
Heritage Space Programme interactive brochure
Learn about ESA's Heritage Space Programme in this interactive brochure.
Document - General Reference
Heritage Missions brochure
This brochure describes ESA's Heritage Space Programme and includes infographics describing some of the missions in the programme.
Document - General Reference
Third Party Missions Brochure
This brochure summarises ESA's Third Party Missions programme, providing a timeline and examples of content related to some of the missions.
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.
News - Infographics
Timeline to over 40 years of historical satellite missions
ESA's Heritage Space Programme preserves historical data from over 40 years of Earth observation missions.
News - Infographics
An overview of ESA's Third Party Missions programme
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of almost 50 satellite missions, which are owned by organisations around the world. ESA has agreements with these organisations to acquire, process, and distribute data from their missions
News - Infographics
ESA Third Party Missions timeline
We've released a new timeline to illustrate the history of the ESA Third Party Missions.
News - Success Stories
A stroll through Heritage Missions
At ESA's Earth Observation centre—ESRIN—in Frascati, Italy, there is a place where one can walk back in time, to better understand the history and importance of Heritage Missions and their data.
Document - Technical Note
Technical Note on Quality Assessment for OceanSat-2 (7 Oct 20)
Technical Note on Quality Assessment for OceanSat-2 (7 Oct 20)
Document - Technical Note
Technical Note on Quality Assessment for OceanSat-2 (6 Aug 20)
Technical Note on Quality Assessment for OceanSat-2 (6 Aug 20)
Document - Technical Note
Technical Note on Quality Assessment for OceanSat-2 (1 Jan 19)
Technical Note on Quality Assessment for OceanSat 2 OCM (Quarterly report for Q4 2018)
Document - Technical Note
Technical Note on Quality Assessment for OceanSat-2 (4 Jan 20)
Technical Note on Quality Assessment for OceanSat-2 OCM (Quarterly report for Q3 and Q4 2019)
Document - Technical Note
Technical Note on Quality Assessment for OceanSat-2 (3 Jul 19)
Technical Note on Quality Assessment for OceanSat 2 OCM (Quarterly report for Q2 2019)
Document - Technical Note
Technical Note on Quality Assessment for OceanSat-2 (5 May 20)
Technical Note on Quality Assessment for OceanSat-2 OCM (Quarterly report for Q1 2020)
Document - Technical Note
Technical Note on Quality Assessment for OceanSat-2 (2 Apr 19)
Technical Note on Quality Assessment for OceanSat-2 OCM (Quarterly report for Q1 2019)
Document - User Guide
TPM-L-OADS-dissemination-service-User-Manual.pdf
This guide describes the Third Party Missions Dissemination System.