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 - Thematic area articles

Tracking the world’s forests from space

As human activities continue to threaten the planet’s forests, data delivered by satellites are boosting global efforts to conserve these crucial natural resources.

Document - General Reference

The-Changing-Earth-New-Scientific-Challenges-for-ESAs-Living-Planet-Programme.pdf

This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 129.

News - Thematic area articles

Space data support Earth’s ecosystems

ESA’s Earth observation (EO) missions are making a critical contribution to monitoring transformations in our planet’s ecosystems, helping track changes in the vegetation, soil, and ocean that affect these systems.

News - Thematic area articles

Remote sensing data underpin research on soil

Environmental data disseminated by ESA’s Earth observation programmes provide knowledge about the stresses on Earth’s soils – aiding many applications such as crop management, drought and flood forecasting, and ecosystem protection.

Event - Workshop

POLinSAR 2009

The 2009 workshop focused on theory and methods in the fields of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry

Event - Workshop

POLinSAR 2007

The POLinSAR 2007 workshop was open to ESA Principal Investigators and co-investigators, scientists and students working in the field of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry, and to representatives from national, European and international space agencies and value adding industry.

Event - Workshop

POLinSAR 2005

The objectives of the POLinSAR 2005 workshop was to present the latest studies and results of SAR polarimetry and polarimetric interferometry.

Event - Workshop

POLinSAR 2003

The workshop was hosted by ESA on the application of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry.

Document - Proceedings

Microwave Remote Sensing Applied to Vegetation - EARSeL Workshop

News - Spotlight on EO community

Meet a young researcher who studies the behaviour of volcanoes worldwide

Researcher Camila Novoa Lizama, of the University of Leeds, recently analysed how the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery over the Puyehue Cordón-Caulle Volcanic Complex, in Chile, acquired by ALOS-1, Envisat and the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites, helped her team to better comprehend the temporal and spatial behaviour of ground displacements before, during and after the volcano’s last eruption.

Document - General Reference

Mapping-Forest-Fire-Damage-with-Envisat.pdf

This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 120 and describes how remote sensing from space (and ESA's ENVISAT environment satellite, launched in March 2002, in particular) is suitable for forest-fire-related studies.

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.

Tools - Other

Hydrology TEP

The Hydrology Thematic Exploitation Platform (TEP) enables access, processing, uploading, visualisation, manipulation and comparison of hydrological data.

News - Success Stories

How Envisat helped to shape global understanding of Earth’s systems

Twenty years have passed since a ground-breaking European spacecraft designed to deliver unprecedented insight into the planet’s changing environment was lofted into orbit.

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 - General Reference

Healing-the-Earth-Earth-Observation-Supporting-International-Environmental Conventions.pdf

This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 128.

Document - Proceedings

Fringe-2011-workshop-session-summaries.pdf

This document contains the session summaries from the session summaries of the Fringe 2011 workshop.

Document - Proceedings

Fringe-2011-workshop-recommendations.pdf

This document contains the recommendations from the session summaries of the Fringe 2011 Workshop.