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Activity - General activities
EO Summer Schools
ESA's series of summer schools, on Monitoring of the Earth System, aims to promote the exploitation of Earth observation (EO) data.
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.
Document - General Reference
envisat-mipas-instrument-description.pdf
This report, produced before the launch of Envisat, describes the MIPAS instrument and the reasons behind creating the instrument.
Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report
ECMWF-GOMOS-Temperature-and-Ozone-Validation-April-2011
GOMOS Temperature and Ozone Validation by ECMWF: April 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.
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.
Activity - Quality
ALGOM
The ALGOM: GOMOS Level 2 Algorithm Evolution Studies project consists of different Level 2 studies aimed at the improvement of the quality of the GOMOS products.
Activity - Quality
SEOM CAWA
The Advanced Clouds, Aerosols and WAter vapour products for Sentinel-3/OLCI project aims to develop and improve the advanced atmospheric retrieval algorithms developed for MERIS and OLCI instruments.
Activity - Quality
REAPER
The REAPER (REprocessing of Altimeter Products for ERS) project covers both the ERS-1 and the ERS-2 altimetry missions. The project aims to support and maintain data quality.
Document - Algorithms Theoretical Baseline Document
MERIS ATBD 2-12
Pigment index, sediment and gelbstoff retrieval
Document - Algorithms Theoretical Baseline Document
MERIS ATBD 2-18
PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY AVAILABLE RADIATION (PAR)
Document - Algorithms Theoretical Baseline Document
MERIS ATBD 2-15
MERIS aerosol remote sensing over land
Document - Algorithms Theoretical Baseline Document
MERIS ATBD 2-22
MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index
Document - Algorithms Theoretical Baseline Document
MERIS ATBD 2-1
MERIS Cloud Albedo and Cloud Optical Thickness
Document - Algorithms Theoretical Baseline Document
MERIS ATBD 2-0
Introduction to MERIS Level 2 ATBDs
Document - Algorithms Theoretical Baseline Document
MERIS ATBD 2-01
CLOUD ALBEDO AND CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS