Document - General Reference

WATS - Water Vapour and Temperature in the Troposphere and Stratosphere.pdf

This report describes the WATS mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.

Document - Technical Note

WALES - Water Vapour Lidar Experiment in Space

This report describes the WALES mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.

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.

Document - General Reference

The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Earth Radiation Mission

This report for assessment addresses the Earth Radiation mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.

Document - General Reference

The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Atmospheric Dynamics MIssion

This report for assessment addresses the Atmospheric Dynamics mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.

Document - General Reference

The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Atmospheric Chemistry Mission

This report for assessment addresses the Atmospheric Chemistry mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.

Document - General Reference

The four Candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions - Earth Radiation Mission

This report describes the Earth Radiation Mission, one of the four Candidate Earth Explorers in 1999.

Document - General Reference

The four Candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions - Atmospheric Dynamics Mission

This report describes the Atmospheric Dynamics Mission, one of the four Candidate Earth Explorers in 1999.

Document - General Reference

SPECTRA-Surface-Processes-and-Ecosystem-Changes-Through-Response-Analysis.pdf

This report describes the SPECTRA mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.

News - Success Stories

Satellites track the health of the ozone layer

ESA’s Earth observation activities are contributing to international efforts to monitor and preserve the layer of stratospheric ozone that blankets the planet.

Document - General Reference

PREMIER-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-atmospheric-composition.pdf

The objective of the PREMIER mission is to quantify the processes controlling global atmospheric composition in the mid/upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (5-25 km height range), which is a region of particular importance for climate change.

Event - Conference

Living Planet Symposium 2022

Learn about the 2022 edition of ESA's Living Planet Symposium.

News - Spotlight on EO community

Introducing Mirko Albani

In this short introduction, ESA's Heritage Missions Programme Manager describes what he likes most about ESA's long term archive of satellite mission data and his role in the programme.

News - Spotlight on EO community

Interviewing Mirko Albani

ESA’s Heritage Space Programme Manager describes the goals of the programme, some of the challenges involved in preserving and improving 40 years of historical Earth observation data, and his passion for curating this long-term archive.

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.

Event - Workshop

Fringe 2003 Workshop

The third ESA International Workshop on ERS SAR Interferometry and its first Workshop on ASAR interferometry: Advances in SAR interferometry from ERS and Envisat missions.

Event - Workshop

Fringe 1996 Workshop

The workshop on ERS SAR Interferometry was open to scientists and students working in the field of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometry and its applications.

Document - Proceedings

ERS-Envisat Symposium

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.