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.

News - Data Release news

Release of new Envisat DORIS Precise Orbit data

A new version of the Envisat Precise Orbit products has been generated by the Centre de Traitement Doris Poseidon (CTDP) using the Geophysical Data Records F standards (GDR-F). The new dataset (DOR_VOR_AX vF) is now available to users in Envisat format from the ESA dissemination service.

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 - Product Specifications

Envisat products specifications - Volume 9 - DORIS products specifications

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.

Document - General Reference

The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Land-Surface Processes and Interactions Mission

This report for assessment addresses the Land-Surface Processes and Interactions mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.

Document - General Reference

ERS-Radar-data-for-operational-land-cover-mapping-AfriCover-Study.pdf

This report illustrates the results obtained during the ESA-ESRIN/FAO Pilot Study conducted within the Remote Sensing Exploitation Department of ESA/ESRIN by Gianna Calabresi and Juerg Lichtenegger, with contributions from Jarkko Koskinen, presently with the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.

Document - General Reference

BIOMASS-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-forest-biomass.pdf

The objective of the BIOMASS Mission is to determine the global distribution of forest biomass by reducing the uncertainty in the calculation of carbon stock and fluxes associated with the terrestrial biosphere.

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

TIGER Initiative - Looking After Water in Africa

This brochure presents images from the second TIGER Workshop, held in Pretoria from 08 to 10 November 2004. The images show locations in Africa acquired by Meteosat-8, Envisat's ASAR and MERIS instruments and Proba-1's HRC instrument.

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

Envisat-The-Future.pdf

This brochure provides an overview of the Envisat mission.

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

A-Review-of-Mediterranean-Environmental-Management-Actions-Using-Space-Techniques.pdf

This document represents the executive review of the work performed by CTM (Centro di Telerilevamento Mediterraneo) and the National Observatory of Athens. This review has been promoted by ESA - EURISY Colloquium (Athens, 19-20 October 1998)

Document - General Reference

A-New-Earth-Explorer-The-Third-Cycle-of-Core-Earth-Explorers.pdf

This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 131

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.