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News - General News
ESA's improved Earth system data records: what is in store for the future?
Fundamental Data Records (FDRs) are instrumental in advancing our understanding of Earth systems and for addressing societal challenges effectively. These long-term records contain uncertainty-quantified, calibrated and geo-located multi-instrument/multi-platform satellite sensor data spanning several decades to support climate-related applications.
Data - Announcement of Opportunity (Restrained)
Announcement of Opportunity for S3VT (Sentinel-3 Validation Team)
In the framework of a Copernicus collaborative agreement ESA and EUMETSAT invite interested groups and individuals to support the Sentinel-3 Validation Team (S3VT).
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 - Data Release news
New reprocessing of datasets celebrates 30 years of ERS
The ERS programme celebrated its 30th anniversary on 17 July. Today, we are still exploiting ERS data and experts continue to work on improving the altimeter, radiometer and SAR data the programme acquired.
News - Success Stories
ERS Heritage Data allow for 30 years of science
At their time of launch thirty years ago, the two ERS satellites were the most sophisticated Earth observation spacecraft ever developed and launched by Europe.
News - Infographics
ERS - ESA’s first Earth observation satellites
To mark the 30th anniversary of ERS, we've released a new infographic summarising the mission.
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 - Technical Note
CryoSat-Characterisation-for-FBR-users-ARESYS-ESA.zip
This document contains the CryoSat system and SIRAL instrument characterization parameters that can be useful to CryoSat users to processBaselineCFBR data.The information provided in this document does not apply to FBR products from the previous Baselines.
Document - Technical Note
CryoSat-2-Guidelines-for-reverting-Waveform-Power-Sigma-Nought-in-SAR-mode.pdf
The scope of thisTechnical Note is tofeatureknow-howand recipes in ordertoextract the sigma nought information from CryoSat-2 data productsin SAR mode.
Mission - Copernicus Sentinels
Copernicus Sentinel-3
Copernicus Sentinel-3 is an European Earth Observation satellite mission developed to support Copernicus ocean, land, atmospheric, emergency, security and cryospheric applications.
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
SCIRoCCo
The SCIRoCCo project is an interdisciplinary cooperation of scatterometry experts aimed at promoting the continuing exploitation of ESA's unique 20 years' worth of ERS Scatterometer data.
Tools - Analysis
VtCryoSat
VtCryoSat is a tool for easily browsing and downloading CryoSat products through an interactive and graphical web interface.
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 - Conference
3rd ERS Symposium
The ESA Directorate for Observation of the Earth and its Environment held the 3rd ERS Symposium, in 1997, where many of the results from the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions were presented and discussed by the scientific community.
Document - Product Document
CryoSat-Mission-and-Data-Document.pdf
The purpose of this document is to provide information about the CryoSat mission and its implementation.
Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report
CryoSat-Calibration-and-Validation-Concept.pdf
This document intends to provide a description of a calibration and validation approach that is understandable by wider scientific users of the CryoSat data.
Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report
CryoSat-In-Flight-Calibration-Approach.pdf
This document determines the in-flight calibration activities for CryoSat. These activities will (largely) be performed within the Commissioning Phase1 and this document is an input to the overall Commissioning Phase Plan, AD 1.