Event - Meeting

World Ocean Circulation User Consultation Meeting 2019

The World Ocean Circulation User Consultation Meeting took place in 2019 with the aim to prepare a roadmap for new initiatives on ocean circulation research and applications.

News - Events and Proceedings

Workshop on SMOS for Space Weather

A hybrid event will take place from 12:00 to 16:00 UTC on 14 November 2022 to report on the results of ESA projects using SMOS data for Space Weather applications.

Document - Campaign Report

WISE-2001-experiment-plan.pdf

WInd and Salinity Experiment 2001 (WISE 2001) experiment plan

Campaign

WISE

The objective of WInd and Salinity Experiment 2001 (WISE 2001) campaign was to get more data points and better wind speed measurements.

Data - Campaigns (Open)

WISE

The objective of WInd and Salinity Experiment 2001 (WISE 2001) was to get more data points and better wind speed (WS) measurements so as to reduce the sensitivity to WS uncertainty.

Document - General Reference

WATS - Water Vapour and Temperature in the Troposphere and Stratosphere.pdf

This report describes the WATS mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.

News - Success Stories

Water mission takes on space weather

Adding to SMOS’ list of talents, new findings show that what was considered noise in the mission’s data can actually be used to monitor solar activity and space weather, which can damage communication and navigation systems.

Document - Technical Note

WALES - Water Vapour Lidar Experiment in Space

This report describes the WALES mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.

News - General News

Updated SMOS documentation available

Updated versions of several SMOS data documents are now available.

Document - Technical Note

Update on Sentinel-3 SYN-VGT algorithm status

News - Operational News

Update for the SMOS Near Real Time Sea Surface Wind Speed Processor configuration

An updated configuration of the SMOS Near Real Time Sea Surface Wind Speed Processor was deployed at the IFREMER and ESA operational ground segment on 4th December 2023.

Event - Workshop

Understanding the Carbon and Water Cycles using SMOS Data and Models

The workshop aimed to bring together the EO, SMOS, Earth system science and modelling communities involved in the observation, characterisation and forecasting of land surface processes and their impacts.

Document - General Reference

Understanding climate change from space

This document describes ESA's Climate Change Initiative, and how it is intended to contribute towards monitoring and understanding the Earth's climate.

News - Operational News

Transition from FTP to FTPS for SMOS, Aeolus and Campaign data dissemination systems

As of 15 April 2024 access to the SMOS, Aeolus and Campaign data will be changed from simple FTP to FTPS.

News - Thematic area articles

Transforming space data into climate action

ESA’s Earth observation activities are playing a key role in the revitalised global drive to combat climate change.

Document - General Reference

Towards More Efficient Use of Radar-Altimeter Data

Twenty years ago, experimental altimeters on NASA's Skylab and Geos-3 were already demonstrating the potential of such instrumentation. This led in turn to the development and launch by NASA in July 1978 of the Seasat oceanographic satellite mission. Both Geos-3 and Seasat were very successful in their pioneering missions, but were limited somewhat by poor coverage in the case of Geos-3 and an abnormally short mission duration in Seasat's case.

Document - General Reference

Third Party Missions Brochure

This brochure summarises ESA's Third Party Missions programme, providing a timeline and examples of content related to some of the missions.

Document - Proceedings

Third ESA International Conference on Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems

The proceedings from the Third ESA International Conference on Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems, which took place at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, from 26 to 29 November 1996, are presented here.

Document - General Reference

The-Changing-Earth-New-Scientific-Challenges-for-ESAs-Living-Planet-Programme.pdf

This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 129.

Document - General Reference

The-CEOS-Earth-Observation-Handbook-2008.pdf

This report presents the main capabilities of satellite Earth observations, their applications, and a systematic overview of present and planned Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) agency Earth observation satellite missions and their instruments. It also explores society's increasing need for information on our planet. This edition has a particular focus on climate change.