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  • News - Thematic area articles

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    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.

  • Campaign

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    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.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    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.

  • Document - Proceedings

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    MERIS and (A)ATSR Workshop 2005

    Proceedings of the MERIS and (A)ATSR Workshop held from 26-30 September 2005 at ESRIN in Frascati, Italy

  • Document - General Reference

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    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

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    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.

  • News - Success Stories

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    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

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    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

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    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.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    Global understanding of Earth's land surfaces greatly boosted by satellite data

    ESA perform land surface monitoring with a range of instruments onboard satellites acquiring optical and radar data. Collections of data from these missions are freely available for research purposes.

  • News - Infographics

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    Focusing on Envisat MERIS Full Resolution Level-2 data

    ESA's Envisat mission continued and expanded upon the legacy of its predecessors, the ERS (European Remote Sensing) satellites. Operating between 2002 and 2012, the satellite's 10 instruments acquired a decade of data for many applications.

  • Document - Proceedings

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    ERS-Envisat Symposium

  • Event - Training

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    EO Summer School 5

    ESA's series of summer schools, on Monitoring of the Earth System, aims to promote the exploitation of Earth observation data.

  • Event - Training

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    EO Summer School 3

    ESA's series of summer schools, on Monitoring of the Earth System, aims to promote the exploitation of Earth observation data.

  • Document - Quality Report

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    Envisat MERIS Cyclic Report 31 May 2010

    Envisat MERIS Cyclic Report

  • Document - Quality Report

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    Envisat MERIS Cyclic Report 31 Jul 2006

    Envisat MERIS Cyclic Report

  • Document - Quality Report

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    Envisat MERIS Cyclic Report 30 Jun 2008

    Envisat MERIS Cyclic Report

  • Document - Quality Report

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    Envisat MERIS Cyclic Report 30 Aug 2004

    Envisat MERIS Cyclic Report

  • Document - Quality Report

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    Envisat MERIS Cyclic Report 29 Oct 2007

    Envisat MERIS Cyclic Report

  • Document - Quality Report

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    Envisat MERIS Cyclic Report 29 Dec 2003

    Envisat MERIS Cyclic Report