News - Spotlight on EO community

Meet the Quality Assurance for EO Team

The Quality Assurance For Earth Observation (also known as QA4EO) Service began its operations on 1 November 2019, providing support to the Data Quality and Algorithms Management Office at ESRIN, within the Sensor Performance, Processing and Algorithm section.

Tools - Catalogues

ESA PDGS DataCube

ESA's DataCube is a data catalogue that enables multi-temporal and pixel-based access to a subset of data available from ESA

Event - Conference

Dragon 3 2014 Symposium

The Dragon 3 2014 Symposium was part of the Dragon 3 Programme, focussed on exploitation of ESA, ESA's Third Party Missions and Chinese Earth observation data for geo-science and applications development in land, ocean and atmospheric applications.

Event - Conference

Dragon 3 2015 Symposium

The Dragon 3 2015 Symposium was part of the Dragon 3 Programme, focussed on exploitation of ESA, ESA's Third Party Missions and Chinese Earth observation data for geo-science and applications development in land, ocean and atmospheric applications.

Event - Conference

Dragon 3 2016 Symposium

The Dragon 3 2016 Symposium served as the close of the Dragon 3 Cooperation Programme (2012 to 2016) and formal kick off for Dragon 4 Cooperation projects.

Activity - Projects

Dragon 3 Cooperation Programme

The Dragon 3 Programme focussed on the exploitation of ESA, ESA's Third Party Missions and Chinese Earth observation data for geo-science and applications development in land, ocean and atmospheric applications.

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

Spacelab-in-context.pdf

This document provides an overview of Spacelab, a joint ESA-NASA laboratory that was carried aboard space shuttles from 1981 to 2000.

Document - General Reference

In-action-around-the-world-the-International-Charter-Space-and-Major-Disasters.pdf

This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr.143.

Document - General Reference

ARTEMIS-Paving-the-way-for-Europes-future-data-relay-land-mobile-and-Navigation-Services.pdf

This brochure provides an overview of Artemis, ESAs telecommunications satellite.

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.

Document - General Reference

Understanding climate change from space

This document describes ESA's Climate Change Initiative, and how it is intended to contribute towards monitoring and understanding the Earth's climate.

Activity - Instrument characterisation and algorithm studies

ESA satellites and instruments calibration landing page

ESA satellites and instruments calibration landing page.

Tools - Analysis

Sentinel-3 Toolbox

The Toolbox consists of a set of visualisation, analysis and processing tools for the exploitation of OLCI and SLSTR data.

Tools - Analysis

SNAP

SNAP is a common architecture for all Sentinel Toolboxes. It is ideal for Earth observation processing and analysis.

Document - Product Document

cryosat-magnetic-data-calibration-method.pdf

Description of CryoSat magnetometer data calibration and data description

News - Data Release news

CryoSat Ocean Baseline C reprocessed 2015 data available

The reprocessed CryoSat Ocean Baseline C data for all of 2015 is available to download from the Science Server.

Tools - Analysis

VtCryoSat

VtCryoSat is a tool for easily browsing and downloading CryoSat products through an interactive and graphical web interface.

Document - Technical Note

Telemeter Instrumentation Schedule LMSC No-1241637 Satellite Vehicle System