Document - General Reference

ESA-Achievements-More-than-thirty-years-of-pioneering-space-activity.pdf

This volume gives a general overview of ESA's activities and programmes by analyzing the single missions where it is involved.

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 - General Reference

Meteosat-Second-Generation.pdf

This flyer summarises in short the aims, applications and technology of the MSG mission.

Document - Proceedings

Advances-in-Atmospheric-Science-and-Applications.pdf

Proceedings in Advances in Atmospheric Science and Applications held in 18-22 June 2012 in Bruges, Belgium.

Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

ERS-2-OPR-Product-Validation-Report.pdf

This report focuses on the inspection of the OPR products and the associated user documentation.

Document - Proceedings

3rd-MSG-RAO-Workshop.pdf

Proceedings of the 3rd MSG RAO Workshop held on 5 June 2006 in Helsinki, Finland

Document - Proceedings

2nd-MSG-RAO-Workshop.pdf

Proceedings of the 2nd MSG RAO Workshop, held on 9-10 September 2004 in Salzburg, Austria

Event - Training

Advanced Training Course on Ocean Remote Sensing 2006

The objective of the course was to provide first-hand information on a broad range of ocean research topics including key principles of SAR, Radar Altimetry, Ocean Colour and Sea Surface Temperature measurements, processing algorithms, data products and their use in oceanographic applications.

Event - Workshop

GEWEX / ESA DUE GlobVapour Quality Assessment of Water Vapour Data Sets Workshop

The workshop brought together the producers and users of water vapour data sets to define a useful water vapour data set for GEWEX.

Event - Training

Advanced Training Course in Ocean Remote Sensing 2011

Within the framework of the Dragon Programme, a joint collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), ESA and NRSCC are providing a series of advanced thematic training courses on remote sensing applications hosted by university and research institutions in P.R. China.

News - Success Stories

Spotlight on sea-level rise

Scientists to share findings on how satellite has revealed changes in the height of the sea, ice, inland bodies of water and more.

News - Data Release news

ERS-1 Scatterometer L2 dataset processed with ASPS v10.04 is available online

The reprocessed dataset together with corresponding ERS-2 data is now available.

Document - Proceedings

ERS-Envisat Symposium

Document - Proceedings

1st MSG RAO Workshop

Proceedings of the workshop organised by ESA and EUMETSAT held in CNR of Bologna, Italy in May 2000.

Document - Proceedings

2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium

The 2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium was held in Salzburg - Austria from 6 to 10 September 2004. The 2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium provided a forum for investigators to present results of ongoing research project activities and assess the development of applications and services.

Document - General Reference

2013 Dragon 3 Brochure

The 2013 Dragon 3 cooperation brochure presents the activities undertaken since the formal start of programme in June 2012.

Activity - Quality

SCIRoCCo

The SCIRoCCo project is an interdisciplinary cooperation of scatterometry experts aimed at promoting the continuing exploitation of ESA's unique 20 years' worth of ERS Scatterometer data.

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.

Mission - Heritage Missions

Envisat

Envisat was ESA's successor to ERS. Envisat carried ten instruments aboard for a wide range of Earth observing fields. The mission was operational from 2002 to 2012.

Data - Fast Registration with immediate access (Open)

ERS-1/2 SCATTEROMETER Ocean Wind field and Sea Ice probability [ASPS20.H/ASPS20.N]

The ASPS Level 2 products contain, for each node: the radar backscattering sigma nought for the three beams of the instrument, the four aliased wind solutions (Rank 1-4 wind vector) and the de-aliased wind vector flag, the sea-ice probability and sea-ice flag, the YAW quality flag. The wind retrieval is performed with the CMOD5N geophysical model function derived by ECMWF to compute the neutral winds rather than 10 m winds. ASPS L2.0 High resolution products are provided with a spatial resolution of 25x25 km and a grid spacing of 12.5 km. ASPS L2.0 Nominal resolution products are provided with a spatial resolution of 50x50 km and a grid spacing of 25 km. One product covers one orbit from ascending node crossing. Please consult the Product Quality Readme file before using the ERS ASPS data.