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News - Events and Proceedings
ESA Earth observation event supports quality of New Space data
In the context of a rapidly growing New Space economy, ESA’s traditional position as an Earth Observation (EO) data provider is interchanged with new additional roles, such as customer, partner or enabler, as set out at the VH-RODA workshop.
Document - Newsletter
Earth Online Newsletter 01 December 2023
This issue of the Earth Online Newsletter covers a selection of the latest news and events from ESA.
News - Success Stories
ESA promotes radio frequency monitoring as Spire becomes TPM
The global company Spire, which specialises in using continuous global monitoring to track aircraft, ships and weather patterns using a large constellation of CubeSats, is now an ESA Third Party Mission.
News - General News
International collaboration: Summarising ESA’s Third Party Missions
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world. Learn more about the Third Party Missions in this video.
News - Thematic area articles
Satellites expand research on Space Weather and Sun-Earth Interactions
Earth observation data provide vital warnings about the impact of solar activity and strive to unravel the influence the Sun has on Earth’s system.
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.
News - Thematic area articles
Space helps monitor Earth’s changing biosphere
Earth’s biosphere is continually changing. Through its pioneering Earth observation missions, ESA is making critical contributions to monitor these changes and their impacts on Earth’s water and carbon cycles.
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 - 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.
Event - Workshop
Fringe 2003 Workshop
The third ESA International Workshop on ERS SAR Interferometry and its first Workshop on ASAR interferometry: Advances in SAR interferometry from ERS and Envisat missions.
Activity - Projects
SAFE (Standard Archive Format for Europe)
SAFE is a long-term preservation data format designed to act as a common format for archiving and conveying data within ESA Earth Observation archiving facilities.
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.
Document - Technical Note
JERS-Products-Comparison-Report.pdf
This Technical Note is in response to an action from the IDEAS+ MTR to assess the quality of JERS-1 SAR data with reference to the corresponding JAXA data.
Document - Mission Status Report
JERS-Mission-Instrument-Characteristics.pdf
This document contains an overview of the JERS mission/instrument characteristics. In particular, this document gives detail about the mission history and background, correction algorithm applied.
Document - Technical Note
IDEAS+-VEG-OQC-REP-2620_JERS_SAR_Reprocessing_QC_V1_4.pdf
This document presents the results of the data quality control (QC) performed by IDEAS+ Task 1 SAR team on the JERS-1 SAR dataset processed using JERS-1 SAR Instrument Processing Facility (IPF) version 2.05 patch 3 (v2.05p3).
Document - Product Document
SPIRE-Final-Data-Report-Form.pdf
This document is the final form to be filled in after a proposal for SPIRE data, describing how useful the data was etc.