Document - Proceedings

3rd-MSG-RAO-Workshop.pdf

Proceedings of the 3rd MSG RAO Workshop held on 5 June 2006 in Helsinki, Finland

Document - Proceedings

Advances-in-Atmospheric-Science-and-Applications.pdf

Proceedings in Advances in Atmospheric Science and Applications held in 18-22 June 2012 in Bruges, Belgium.

Document - Proceedings

3rd-Workshop-on-the-Atmospheric-Chemistry-Validation-of-Envisat-ACVE-3.pdf

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the Atmospheric Chemistry Validation of Envisat, held from 4-7 December 2006 at ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy

Document - Proceedings

2nd-Workshop-on-the-Atmospheric-Chemistry-Validation-of-Envisat-ACVE-2.pdf

This is the collection of presentations given at the 2nd Workshop on the Atmospheric Chemistry Validation of Envisat, organised by the ESA Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes, held from 3-7 May 2004 at ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.

Document - Proceedings

2nd-MSG-RAO-Workshop.pdf

Proceedings of the 2nd MSG RAO Workshop, held on 9-10 September 2004 in Salzburg, Austria

Document - General Reference

ESA-Achievements-More-than-thirty-years-of-pioneering-space-activity.pdf

This volume gives a general overview of ESA's activities and programmes by analyzing the single missions where it is involved.

Document - General Reference

Meteosat-Second-Generation.pdf

This flyer summarises in short the aims, applications and technology of the MSG mission.

Document - General Reference

Meteosat-Second-Generation-The-Satellite-Development.pdf

This publication provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the MSG programme, the mission objectives, the design and development of the MSG spacecraft.

Event - Workshop

GEWEX / ESA DUE GlobVapour Quality Assessment of Water Vapour Data Sets Workshop

The workshop brought together the producers and users of water vapour data sets to define a useful water vapour data set for GEWEX.

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 - Proceedings

ERS-Envisat Symposium

Document - Proceedings

1st MSG RAO Workshop

Proceedings of the workshop organised by ESA and EUMETSAT held in CNR of Bologna, Italy in May 2000.

Document - Proceedings

2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium

The 2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium was held in Salzburg - Austria from 6 to 10 September 2004. The 2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium provided a forum for investigators to present results of ongoing research project activities and assess the development of applications and services.

Document - General Reference

2013 Dragon 3 Brochure

The 2013 Dragon 3 cooperation brochure presents the activities undertaken since the formal start of programme in June 2012.

Activity - Projects

Auroral Electrojet and auroral Boundaries estimated from Swarm observations

In the Swarm-AEBS project, a set of new Swarm data products that characterise the auroral electrojets and auroral oval boundaries will be derived from Swarm magnetic field measurements.

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 - Earth Explorers

Swarm

Swarm is dedicated to creating a highly detailed survey of Earth’s geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution as well as the electric field in the atmosphere using a constellation of three identical satellites.

Data - Fast Registration with immediate access (Open)

Envisat RA-2 Geophysical Data Record - GDR [RA2_GDR__2P]

This is a RA-2 Geophysical Data Record (GDR) Full Mission Reprocessing (FMR) V3 product containing radar range and orbital altitude, wind speed, wave height, water vapour from the MWR and geophysical corrections. This FMR follows the first Envisat Altimetry reprocessing Version (V2.1) completed in 2012. The GDR and S-GDR data products were reprocessed for all cycles from 6 to 113 (May 2002 to April 2012) into a homogeneous standard in NetCDF format (close to Sentinel-3). For many aspects, the V3.0 reprocessed data are better than the previous dataset: In terms of available and valid data, the coverage is better, notably thanks to a better availability of MWR data at the beginning of the mission In terms of performance at cross-overs, the quality is improved: the annual signal and average of Mean SSH is decreased, as well as the standard deviation The new MWR characteristics were shown to improve largely the global quality of data. As well as the new tide model, the new MSS and the new orbit standard The Global and regional Mean Sea Level trend is very weakly impacted though the effort was put, this time, on the mesoscale restitution, rather than long term drift, as during V2.1 reprocessing. Please consult the Envisat RA-2/MWR Product Quality Readme file PDF before using the data.

Data - Fast Registration with immediate access (Open)

Envisat RA-2 Sensor and Geophysical Data Record - SGDR [RA2_MWS__2P]

This is a RA-2 Sensor and Geophysical Data Record (SGDR) Full Mission Reprocessing (FMR) V3 product. This FMR follows the first Envisat Altimetry reprocessing Version (V2.1) completed in 2012. The GDR and S-GDR data products were reprocessed for all cycles from 6 to 113 (May 2002 to April 2012) into a homogeneous standard in NetCDF format (close to Sentinel-3). The Sensor Data Record (SGDR) Product from RA-2/MWR includes the data in the GDR product (RA-2 geophysical data, MWR data) and also RA-2 averaged waveforms (18Hz) and RA-2 individual waveforms (1800Hz). This product is a continuation of ERS RA data. This data product has a coverage of 1 pass and pole to pole, a spatial sampling of about 390 m along track and a size of 31 to 40 MB, depending on presence of individual waveforms. The radiometric accuracy is 0.2 dB and auxiliary data include: Orbit state vectors (DORIS, FOS), RA2 and MWR characterisation data, Platform attitude, Gain calibration, USO frequency, ECMWF data, time relation, leap second, Ionospheric corrections, geoid, mean sea surface, slope data, and tide model (ocean, earth, loading, pole). Please consult the Envisat RA-2/MWR Product Quality Readme file before using the data.

News - Infographics

Envisat - ESA's versatile Earth observation satellite

Learn more about ESA's Envisat mission - the largest Earth observation satellite ever built - in a new infographic.