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• News - Infographics

  

  Explore sample data products from Third Party Missions

  ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of over 50 satellite missions from commercial and public organisations worldwide.

• Data - Sample Data (Open)

  

  SkySat Sample Data

  Download free SkySat sample datasets to preview products available for this mission.

• News - General News

  

  Go-to guide to Third Party Mission data offering

  ESA’s latest Third Party Missions Data Access Guide has been published, providing technical details and information on available data collections for all current or past Third Party Missions.

• News - Events and Proceedings

  

  Celebrating ESA’s first small satellite with science success

  Scientists and data users gathered at a special workshop to celebrate the end of PROBA-1’s CHRIS sensor and discuss the results of this overachieving mission.

• News - Data Release news

  

  Sample data products from ESA’s Third Party Missions

  Samples of data products from a range of Third Party Missions are now available to download, offering a preview of what these missions provide.

• Document - Newsletter

  

  Earth Online Newsletter 15 December 2023

  This issue of the Earth Online Newsletter covers a selection of the latest news and events from ESA.

• News - Thematic area articles

  

  How to use space data to probe humankind’s ancient past

  Data disseminated by ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme are enabling archaeological investigations that could help to unravel the mysteries of past societies and cultures.

• News - Events and Proceedings

  

  Workshop celebrates end of long-running PROBA-1 satellite

  In January, ESA will mark the end of its long-running CHRIS sensor onboard the PROBA-1 satellite in a special workshop.

• Event - Workshop

  

  PROBA-1 CHRIS End of Mission Workshop

  The PROBA-1 CHRIS End of Mission Workshop will take place from 18-19 January 2024 in Ghent, Belgium.

• News - Success Stories

  

  Monitoring the health of wheat crops from space

  Very high resolution space data can be used to improve the detection of a plant disease that impacts a major global cereal crop.

• News - Success Stories

  

  Commercial space data help to regreen grasslands in Africa

  Commercial satellite imagery made available through ESA’s Third Party Missions programme is guiding an ambitious community-focused initiative to regrow natural grasslands in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• News - Success Stories

  

  New cross-calibration readies PROBA-1 data for climate research

  While PROBA-1 has already exceeded expectations by suppling over 21 years of Earth observation hyperspectral data, recent cross-calibration activities are aiming to ensure the data will robustly serve long time-series research, even when the satellite ends operations.

• 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 - Operational News

  

  PROBA-1 - End of CHRIS acquisitions

  The CHRIS instrument onboard PROBA-1 successfully ended its operational phase in December 2022 and will no longer acquire images.

• Document - Data Access Information

  

  ESA-archive-third-party-mission-collections.pdf

  Discover the ESA archive data collections offered for the Third Party Missions programme.

• 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

  

  Satellites reveal changes to Earth’s icy zones

  ESA’s Earth observation activities are helping scientists investigate the influence of climate change on widespread ice-losses across the planet.

• News - Data Release news

  

  Two new ESA archive collections have been opened for PlanetScope and SkySat

  PlanetScope ESA archive and SkySat ESA archive collections are available through ESA’s Third Party Missions programme via Fast Approval Registration.

• News - Infographics

  

  A summary of ESA Third Party Mission collections

  A new summary is available, showcasing the ESA archives for Third Party Mission collections.