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• News - How to guides

  

  HEDAVI Discover: a step-by-step guide

  The Heritage Data Visualisation tool (HEDAVI) is a platform developed by the French Science Consulting for Earth Observation group, VisioTerra, which allows users to freely access over 40 years of ESA Earth Observation Heritage data, Third Party Missions and some Copernicus data.

• News - Maintenance News

  

  ESA EO Dissemination Services - Maintenance on 25 and 26 March 2024

  Scheduled software maintenance on ESA EO Dissemination Services on 25 and 26 March 2024

• News - General News

  

  Go-to guide to Third Party Mission data offering

  ESA’s latest Third Party Missions Data Access Guide has been published, providing technical details and information on available data collections for all current or past Third Party Missions.

• 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.

• Document - Newsletter

  

  Earth Online Newsletter 15 December 2023

  This issue of the Earth Online Newsletter covers a selection of the latest news and events from ESA.

• News - Success Stories

  

  Discover Earth like never before: the HEDAVI tool

  The Heritage Data Visualisation tool, or HEDAVI, enables the analysis of global spatio-temporal dynamics of natural and artificial environments, covering over 40 years of ESA Earth Observation Heritage data, Third Party Missions and some Copernicus data.

• News - Events and Proceedings

  

  Workshop celebrates end of long-running PROBA-1 satellite

  In January, ESA will mark the end of its long-running CHRIS sensor onboard the PROBA-1 satellite in a special workshop.

• News - Maintenance News

  

  ESA EO Dissemination Services - Maintenance on 06 November 2023

  Due to software maintenance on 06 November, several ESA Earth Observation data dissemination platforms will be unavailable.

• Event - Workshop

  

  PROBA-1 CHRIS End of Mission Workshop

  The PROBA-1 CHRIS End of Mission Workshop will take place from 18-19 January 2024 in Ghent, Belgium.

• News - Thematic area articles

  

  Cloud-free collections key for land monitoring

  Satellite imagery is a crucially important tool for monitoring the land, but cloud cover can often block parts of Earth’s surface from view, limiting subsequent analyses.

• News - Success Stories

  

  Commercial and international data for fire monitoring

  As climate change sparks a surge in the frequency and intensity of wildfires, satellite data disseminated through ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme are helping scientists to track and investigate these potentially damaging natural events.

• 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.

• News - Success Stories

  

  ESA missions help to reveal worldwide lake water loss trend

  Climate change, human consumption and sedimentation are depleting more than half of the world’s biggest lakes of water, according to a ground-breaking analysis that drew on three decades of satellite data.

• News - Thematic area articles

  

  How satellite data empower sustainable urban growth

  Earth observation is a vital tool for facilitating the sustainable development of the world's cities, helping to ensure that urban centres keep spurring collaboration, innovation and opportunity as they continue to expand.

• 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

  

  How scientists use space data to help advance the energy transition

  Scientists are using remote sensing data disseminated by ESA to support the green transformation of world’s power generation infrastructure.

• News - General News

  

  International collaboration: Summarising ESA’s Third Party Missions

  ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world. Learn more about the Third Party Missions in this video.

• News - Data Release news

  

  New Landsat RBV data collection opened to users

  ESA is pleased to announce that the Landsat RBV data collection has been opened to users.

• News - General News

  

  Long-term data: Summarising ESA’s Heritage missions

  ESA’s Heritage Space Programme preserves data from non-operational missions. Learn more about the Heritage missions in this video.

• News - Success Stories

  

  Showcasing success stories from ESA's Third Party Missions

  ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world.