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.

Data - EO Sign In Authentication (Open)

Landsat RBV

This dataset contains Landsat 3 Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) products, acquired by ESA by the Fucino ground station over its visibility mask. The data (673 scenes) are the result of the digitalization of the original 70 millimetre (mm) black and white film rolls. The RBV instrument was mounted on board the Landsat 1 to 3 satellites between 1972 and 1983, with 80 metre resolution. Three independent co-aligned television cameras, one for each spectral band (band 1: blue-green, band 2: yellow-red, band 3: NIR), constituted this instrument. The RBV system was redesigned for Landsat 3 to use two cameras operating in one broad spectral band (green to near-infrared; 0.505–0.750 µm), mounted side-by-side, with panchromatic spectral response and higher spatial resolution than on Landsat 1 and Landsat 2. Each of the cameras produced a swath of about 90 km (for a total swath of 180 km), with a spatial resolution of 40 m.

Tools - Catalogues

FedEO

FedEO is a data catalogue that provides a unique entry point to a number of scientific catalogues and services for, but not limited to, European and Canadian missions.

Tools - Catalogues

ESA PDGS DataCube

ESA's DataCube is a data catalogue that enables multi-temporal and pixel-based access to a subset of data available from ESA

Tools - Catalogues

EO CAT

EO CAT is a data catalogue, offering a Next Generation Earth Observation system designed to manage end-user Earth Observation services.

Event - Workshop

VH-RODA 2021 Workshop

The Very High-resolution Radar & Optical Data Assessment (VH-RODA) 2021 workshop was held online from 20–23 April 2021.

Document - Technical Note

Landsat 7 ETM Image Assessment System Radiometric Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document

Document - Technical Note

Landsat 7 ETM Image Assessment System Geometric Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document

Tools - Visualisation

EVDC Orbit Prediction Tool

The EVDC Orbit Prediction and Overpass Tool generates and visualises satellite's overpasses.

News - Success Stories

New life for Landsat historical data

45 years of data, more than 1.8 million images, these are the numbers of an adventure started 48 years ago with the launch of the first Landsat satellite.

Tools - Analysis

Sentinel-3 Toolbox

The Toolbox consists of a set of visualisation, analysis and processing tools for the exploitation of OLCI and SLSTR data.

Tools - Analysis

Sentinel-2 Toolbox

The Toolbox consists of a rich set of visualisation, analysis and processing tools for the exploitation of optical high-resolution products including the Sentinel-2 MSI sensor.

Data - Campaigns (Open)

THERMOPOLIS

The THERMOPOLIS 2009 campaign mainly served the DUE “Urban Heat islands (UHI) and Urban Thermography (UT) Project”

Campaign

THERMOPOLIS

The THERMOPOLIS 2009 campaign mainly served the DUE “Urban Heat islands (UHI) and Urban Thermography (UT) Project”

Mission - Heritage Missions

Landsat Series

The Landsat Series is the world's longest running system of satellites for moderate-resolution optical remote sensing for land, coastal areas and shallow waters.

Document - General Reference

The International Charter- Space and Major Disasters

The Charter is an important step forward in linking the needs of disaster and relief organisations with space technology solutions to help mitigate the effects of disaster on human life, property and the environment.

Document - Technical Note

Landsat MSS State Vector Generation

Technical note describing the validation activities conducted to assess the geolocation accuracy and internal image geometry of the Landsat MSS products.

Document - Technical Note

Landsat Level 1 GTC MSS Geometric Validation

Technical Note detailing the results of the geometric validation of the ESA Landsat MSS products.

Document - Technical Note

ngEO Browse Report File Generic Interface (BRGICD)

Statistical description of the ngEO Generic Browse Report File.

Document - Technical Note

On-orbit Attitude Control and Determination System (ACDS) Performance of the Landsat 7 Spacecraft