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Document - General Reference
BIOMASS-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-forest-biomass.pdf
The objective of the BIOMASS Mission is to determine the global distribution of forest biomass by reducing the uncertainty in the calculation of carbon stock and fluxes associated with the terrestrial biosphere.
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 - General Reference
Envisat-The-Future.pdf
This brochure provides an overview of the Envisat mission.
Document - General Reference
ERS-Radar-data-for-operational-land-cover-mapping-AfriCover-Study.pdf
This report illustrates the results obtained during the ESA-ESRIN/FAO Pilot Study conducted within the Remote Sensing Exploitation Department of ESA/ESRIN by Gianna Calabresi and Juerg Lichtenegger, with contributions from Jarkko Koskinen, presently with the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Document - General Reference
Farewell-to-ERS2.pdf
This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr.148.
Document - General Reference
Healing-the-Earth-Earth-Observation-Supporting-International-Environmental Conventions.pdf
This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 128.
Document - General Reference
Happy-Birthday-ERS-1991-2001.pdf
This brochure celebrates the tenth anniversary of the ERS mission. ERS-1 was launched in 1991 and was joined by ERS-2 in 1995.
Document - General Reference
The four Candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions - Land-Surface Processes and Interactions Mission
This report describes the Land-Surface Processes and Interactions Mission, one of the four Candidate Earth Explorers in 1999.
Document - General Reference
The Earth Observation Handbook, 2010 Update - Key Tables
This is the 2010 update of the CEOS Earth Observation Handbook. You can browse the live database at http://database.eohandbook.com/ or download the printable PDF of key tables based on the 2010 database contents for a handy reference.
Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report
ERS-2-Rapid-Products-Validation.pdf
This note shortly summarizes the validation activities for the new rapid orbit and altimeter products RPD/ROPR for ERS-2. Besides internal quality measures the products are compared with the operational Preliminary Orbit (PRL) and the Quick-Look Ocean Product Records (QLOPR).
Document - General Reference
A-Review-of-Mediterranean-Environmental-Management-Actions-Using-Space-Techniques.pdf
This document represents the executive review of the work performed by CTM (Centro di Telerilevamento Mediterraneo) and the National Observatory of Athens. This review has been promoted by ESA - EURISY Colloquium (Athens, 19-20 October 1998)
Document - General Reference
A-New-Earth-Explorer-The-Third-Cycle-of-Core-Earth-Explorers.pdf
This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 131
Document - General Reference
SPECTRA-Surface-Processes-and-Ecosystem-Changes-Through-Response-Analysis.pdf
This report describes the SPECTRA mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.
Document - General Reference
Space-Technologies-for-Water-Resources-Management-in-Africa.pdf
This brochure presents images from Envisat's MERIS and ASAR instruments of locations in Africa, as presented at the TIGER Workshop in Rabat, Morocco, from 06 to 08 October 2003.
Document - General Reference
SMOS-ESAs-Water-Mission-Fact-sheet.pdf
This document provided a series of information on the SMOS mission.
Document - General Reference
The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Land-Surface Processes and Interactions Mission
This report for assessment addresses the Land-Surface Processes and Interactions mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.
Document - Product Document
ERS-Products-WMO-FM94-BUFR-Format.pdf
This document defines all the products distributed by ESA/ESRIN for transmission over the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Global Telecommunication System (GTS). Products are defined in terms of their structure, content and format.
Document - Technical Note
Envisat-Satellite-Qualification-Review-Data-Package-Volume-1K-Supporting-ESQR-Documents.pdf
This volume is the first of a 15 volume set of documents that comprises the Payload to Ground Segment Interface Control Document (PGICD). Volume 1 provides introductory information that is needed to understand both the purpose and scope of the PGICD as well as the concept of breaking the document into individual volumes.
Document - Technical Note
Envisat-products-specifications-VOLUME-17-EXTRACTED-INSTRUMENT-HEADERS.pdf
This file presents the Product Quality Readme (PQR) information for the AATSR Level 1b (ATS_TOA_1P) products. All PQRs are retained for reference in this file, even those pertaining to historically available datasets only, hence there is an explicit statement in each PQR noting whether it is still applicable to the most recent AATSR dataset.
Document - Technical Note
Radar-Altimeter-Ground-Processing-Requirement.pdf
This document defines the Fast Delivery Ground Processing Algorithm Requirements for the ERS-1 Radar Altimeter. It does not include the basic tasks of decoding the telemetry stream, and assumes that the relevant parameters have been extracted for ingestion into the algorithms presented here.