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).

Activity - Projects

Dragon 2 Cooperation Programme

The Dragon 2 Programme focussed on the exploitation of ESA, ESA's Third Party Missions and Chinese Earth observation data for science and applications development in land, ocean and atmospheric applications.

News - Data Release news

Release of new Envisat DORIS Precise Orbit data

A new version of the Envisat Precise Orbit products has been generated by the Centre de Traitement Doris Poseidon (CTDP) using the Geophysical Data Records F standards (GDR-F). The new dataset (DOR_VOR_AX vF) is now available to users in Envisat format from the ESA dissemination service.

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.

Document - Product Specifications

Envisat products specifications - Volume 9 - DORIS products specifications

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.

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.

News - Success Stories

Spotlight on sea-level rise

Scientists to share findings on how satellite has revealed changes in the height of the sea, ice, inland bodies of water and more.

Document - Product Document

ERS-Ground-Stations-Products-Specification.pdf

This document defines all outgoing products generated by the ERS-1 and ERS-2 Ground Stations at: Kiruna, Fucino, Maspalomas, Gatineau and Prince Albert. Products are defined in terms of their structure, content and format. Distribution media are defined in terms of their type and format.

Document - Proceedings

CryoSat-Validation-Workshop-2011.pdf

Proceedings of Cryosat Validation Workshop 2011 held from 1-3 February 2011 in ESRIN, Frascati Italy.

Document - General Reference

BIOMASS-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-forest-biomass.pdf

The objective of the BIOMASS Mission is to determine the global distribution of forest biomass by reducing the uncertainty in the calculation of carbon stock and fluxes associated with the terrestrial biosphere.

Document - General Reference

TIGER Initiative - Looking After Water in Africa

This brochure presents images from the second TIGER Workshop, held in Pretoria from 08 to 10 November 2004. The images show locations in Africa acquired by Meteosat-8, Envisat's ASAR and MERIS instruments and Proba-1's HRC instrument.

Document - General Reference

CryoSat-Polar-Ice-Fields-are-they-melting.pdf

This article was published in the Earth Observation Quarterly Nr. 71 and is about CryoSat applications in experimental measurements in the Arctic.

Document - General Reference

Envisat-The-Future.pdf

This brochure provides an overview of the Envisat mission.

Document - General Reference

ERS-Radar-data-for-operational-land-cover-mapping-AfriCover-Study.pdf

This report illustrates the results obtained during the ESA-ESRIN/FAO Pilot Study conducted within the Remote Sensing Exploitation Department of ESA/ESRIN by Gianna Calabresi and Juerg Lichtenegger, with contributions from Jarkko Koskinen, presently with the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.

Document - General Reference

ESAs-Ice-Mission-CryoSat-more-important-than-ever.pdf

This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr.141.