News - Events and Proceedings

Celebrating ESA’s first small satellite with science success

Scientists and data users gathered at a special workshop to celebrate the end of PROBA-1’s CHRIS sensor and discuss the results of this overachieving mission.

News - Success Stories

New cross-calibration readies PROBA-1 data for climate research

While PROBA-1 has already exceeded expectations by suppling over 21 years of Earth observation hyperspectral data, recent cross-calibration activities are aiming to ensure the data will robustly serve long time-series research, even when the satellite ends operations.

News - Thematic area articles

Space helps monitor Earth’s changing biosphere

Earth’s biosphere is continually changing. Through its pioneering Earth observation missions, ESA is making critical contributions to monitor these changes and their impacts on Earth’s water and carbon cycles.

News - Infographics

PROBA-1 - From technology demonstration to long-term Earth observation

Learn about ESA's PROBA-1 (Project for On-Board Autonomy) mission in our new infographic.

News - Infographics

An overview of ESA's Third Party Missions programme

ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of almost 50 satellite missions, which are owned by organisations around the world. ESA has agreements with these organisations to acquire, process, and distribute data from their missions

Mission - Third Party Missions

PROBA-1

PROBA-1 is a technology demonstration satellite that later became an operational Earth observation mission.

Campaign

SPARC

ESA's SPectra bARrax Campaign (SPARC) activity was part of the preparatory study for a proposed ESA Earth Explorer mission called SPECTRA. The objective was to collect a CHRIS/PROBA reference dataset for SPECTRA-related studies.

Activity - Quality

EDAP

The ESA Earthnet Data Assessment Pilot (EDAP) project will perform assessments for various missions to ensure the delivered data is fit for purpose.

Document - Technical Note

Note on CHRIS Acquisition Procedure and Image Geometry

The aim of this document is to clarify the acquisition procedure CHRIS on-board the PROBA satellite. It provides a detailed description of the acquisition procedure and summarises the implications for the geometrical properties of the CHRIS images.

Document - Proceedings

Hyperspectral Workshop 2010

Proceedings of the Hyperspectral Workshop 2010 held on 17-18 March 2010 in ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. This workshop was organised by the European Space Agency (ESA), the German Aerospace Center (DLR)/the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI).

Document - General Reference

Overview of an Intelligent Sensorweb for Integrated Earth Sensing Project

Document - General Reference

Earth from Space - 5 Years of Proba

Event - Meeting

VH-RODA and CEOS SAR workshop

The workshop provided an open forum for the presentation and discussion of current status and future developments related to the calibration and validation of space borne very high-resolution SAR and optical sensors and data products.

Event - Workshop

4th CHRIS PROBA Workshop

Workshop on the treatment of Compact High Resolution Images Spectrometer (CHRIS) data.

Event - Workshop

3rd CHRIS PROBA Workshop

This 2005 workshop was on the treatment of Compact High Resolution Images Spectrometer (CHRIS) data.

Event - Workshop

2nd CHRIS PROBA Workshop

This 2004 workshop was on the treatment of Compact High Resolution Images Spectrometer (CHRIS) data.

Document - General Reference

Autonomy-in-action-Ten-years-of-Proba-1.pdf

This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr.148.

Document - General Reference

Big-year-for-small-satellite-ESAs-second-in-orbit-technology-demonstration-mission-Proba-2.pdf

This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr.144.

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

Earth-from-Space-Deserts.pdf

This brochure is a collection of Envisat MERIS, Envisat ASAR, Proba and Landsat mosaics of desert areas on our planet.