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News - Success Stories
Trailblazing ERS-2 mission enables climate change applications
As ESA’s ERS-2 satellite approaches Earth’s atmosphere for reentry, it’s time to reflect on the mission’s great achievements in powering climate-related applications.
News - Thematic area articles
Transforming space data into climate action
ESA’s Earth observation activities are playing a key role in the revitalised global drive to combat climate change.
News - Success Stories
How Envisat helped to shape global understanding of Earth’s systems
Twenty years have passed since a ground-breaking European spacecraft designed to deliver unprecedented insight into the planet’s changing environment was lofted into orbit.
Activity - Projects
Dragon 2 Cooperation Programme
The Dragon 2 Programme focussed on the exploitation of ESA, ESA's Third Party Missions and Chinese Earth observation data for science and applications development in land, ocean and atmospheric applications.
Tools - Apps
Heritage Missions app for iOS
Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.
Tools - Apps
Heritage Missions app for Android
Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.
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.
News - Data Release news
Updated Precise Orbit data (POD) for the full ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission available
The Precise Orbit files (ERS.ORB.POD) for the entire ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission periods have been reprocessed with up-to-date standards.
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.
Document - General Reference
Earth-Observation-from-Space-supporting-Biodiversity-Conservation.pdf
This brochure provides an overview of the ESA-funded Diversity project, which aims to demonstration the contribution Earth observation makes towards monitoring the trends and status of different marine and terrestrial ecosystems relevant to diversity.
Document - General Reference
Earth-Observation-Applications-for-the-Aquaculture-Industry.pdf
This flyer describes the applications of Earth Observation for aquaculture, specifically the Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) system of Hatfield Consultants Ltd.
Document - General Reference
The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Topography Mission
This report for assessment addresses the Topography mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.
Document - General Reference
Envisat-Mission-and-System-Summary.pdf
This document provides a description of the mission objectives, the underlying system design concepts, status of the design, and developments of the system elements.
Document - General Reference
Application-of-satellite-remote-sensing-to-developing-countries.pdf
This booklet is a preliminary copy of the first set of viewgraphs being prepared by Satellite Observing Systems (SOS) for ESA to support Agencies activities for promoting the use of Earth observation data from space in various environmental disciplines and applications for developing countries.
Document - General Reference
Earth-Observation-Services-Today-Using-Radar-from-Space.pdf
This booklet provides descriptions of EO services available today from specialist providers for the marine environment e.g. CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites] and NERSC (Nansen Environmental and RemoteSensing Centre], Ocean Numerics, ARGOSS, MeteoMer and Satellite Observing Systems (SOS].
Document - General Reference
Envisat-Europes-Earth-Observation-Mission-for-the-new-Millennium.pdf
This issue of the Earth Observation Quarterly is fully dedicated to the ENVISAT mission. The production of this periodical is now suspended, but paper copies are still available for distribution.
Document - General Reference
Envisat-Caring-for-the-Earth.pdf
This document provides a description on the overall development and verification of the mission, its objectives, the payload and applications, the ground segment.
Document - General Reference
Envisat-Opportunities-for-Science-and-Applications.pdf
This document presents an overview of the opportunities for exploitation of Envisat data products and it is hoped that it will serve the purpose of encouraging scientists and application developers to plan for the use of Envisat data in their work.
Document - General Reference
Sentinel-1-The-Radar-Mission-for-GMES-Land-and-Sea-Services.pdf
This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 131.
Document - General Reference
Globcolour-A-Precursor-to-the-GMES-Marine-Core-Service-Ocean-Colour-Thematic-Assembly-Centre.pdf
This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 132.