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Document - Proceedings
2nd-Conference-on-Academic-and-Industrial-Cooperation-in-Space-Research.pdf
This document describes the proceedings of the second conference on academic and industrial cooperation in space research, held in Graz, Austria, 15-17 November 2000.
Event - Conference
3rd ERS Symposium
The ESA Directorate for Observation of the Earth and its Environment held the 3rd ERS Symposium, in 1997, where many of the results from the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions were presented and discussed by the scientific community.
Document - Proceedings
3rd-ERS-Symposium-Space-at-the-Service-of-our-Environment.pdf
Proceedings of the 3rd ERS Symposium 'Space at the Service of our Environment', held on 14-21 March 1997 in Florence, Italy. 3 Volumes.
Document - General Reference
Application-of-satellite-remote-sensing-to-developing-countries.pdf
This booklet is a preliminary copy of the first set of viewgraphs being prepared by Satellite Observing Systems (SOS) for ESA to support Agencies activities for promoting the use of Earth observation data from space in various environmental disciplines and applications for developing countries.
Event - Workshop
Applications of the ERS Along Track Scanning Radiometer Workshop 1999
The workshop on ERS mission's Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) instrument gathered researchers and specialists working on different applications of the mission.
Event - Workshop
CEOS-IVOS Workshop on Inter-comparison of Large Scale Optical and Infrared Sensors
The 2004 workshop was an opportunity to present and exchange experiences and knowledge from work on inter-comparing large scale optical sensors at different product levels.
Document - Software Verification Plan/Report
Decoding-Software-for-ERS-Data-for-FM94-BUFR.pdf
This document describes how to decode ERS Low Bit Rate (LBR) Fast Delivery (FD) products from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) standard FM94 BUFR format required for transmission to users via the WMO Global Telecommunications System (GTS).
Document - Technical Note
Draft-specification-of-ATSR-SADIST-2-products.pdf
This document is a draft specification of the scientific products from RAL's SADIST-2 ATSR data-processing software. Since SADIST-2 is being developed such that it can process data from both ATSR-1 and ATSR-2 instruments, the products described here have been designed to be sufficiently flexible and modular that they are equally valid for either instrument.
Activity - Projects
Dragon 2 Cooperation Programme
The Dragon 2 Programme focussed on the exploitation of ESA, ESA's Third Party Missions and Chinese Earth observation data for science and applications development in land, ocean and atmospheric applications.
Document - General Reference
Earth-from-Space-Middle-East.pdf
This brochure is a collection of ENVISAT ASAR and MERIS, PROBA, ERS-2, Landsat mosaics.
Document - General Reference
Earth-Observation-Applications-for-the-Aquaculture-Industry.pdf
This flyer describes the applications of Earth Observation for aquaculture, specifically the Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) system of Hatfield Consultants Ltd.
Document - General Reference
Earth-Observation-from-Space-supporting-Biodiversity-Conservation.pdf
This brochure provides an overview of the ESA-funded Diversity project, which aims to demonstration the contribution Earth observation makes towards monitoring the trends and status of different marine and terrestrial ecosystems relevant to diversity.
Document - General Reference
Earth-Observation-Services-Today-Using-Radar-from-Space.pdf
This booklet provides descriptions of EO services available today from specialist providers for the marine environment e.g. CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites] and NERSC (Nansen Environmental and RemoteSensing Centre], Ocean Numerics, ARGOSS, MeteoMer and Satellite Observing Systems (SOS].
Document - Technical Note
EARTHNET-ERS-1-Central-Facility-User-Request-Files-Interface-Facility.pdf
This document specifies the interface through which files of data related to User Request for ERS-1 products or sensing activities will be exchanged between the Earthnet ERS-1 Central Facility (EECF) and the external entities.
Mission - Heritage Missions
ERS
The ERS programme was composed of two missions, ERS-1 and ERS-2, which together observed the Earth for 20 years, from 1991 to 2011.
News - Infographics
ERS - ESA’s first Earth observation satellites
To mark the 30th anniversary of ERS, we've released a new infographic summarising the mission.
Document - General Reference
ERS-1-System.pdf
This document offers information on the ERS-1 System to assist users in accessing ERS services and ordering products.
Data - Fast Registration with approval (Restrained)
ERS-1/2 ATSR ARC L2P/L3U [UPA-L2P_GHRSST/L3U_GHRSST]
The L2P product contains full resolution dual-view Sea Surface Temperature (SST) values. These SST use the ARC SST retrieval and cloud screening which differ from the methods used to produce the Gridded Surface Temperature (ATS_NR__2P) products. In addition to SST, the L2P products contain the ATSR Saharan Dust Index (ASDI) and the clear-sky probability estimated by the ARC cloud detection algorithm. The L2P processor also generates L3U products; these are the L2P products averaged onto a regular grid at 0.1 degree resolution (they are therefore similar to the AR / Meteo Envisat-format products). The L2P and L3U products are provided in NetCDF-4 format following GHRSST Data Specifications (GDS) v2. The L2P/L3U archive has been reprocessed with a new processor based upon the ARC SST; the changes are outlined in full in the L2P Reprocessing User Note.
Data - External Data (Restrained)
ERS-1/2 ATSR ARC Level 3 products [AT1/AT2_AVG_3PAARC]
The recommended ATSR Level 3 products for Sea Surface Temperature (SST) applications are the ARC (ATSR Re-processing for Climate) Level 3 products. ARC reprocesses the ATSR multi-mission archive using new cloud detection and SST retrievals to produce a homogenous record of sea surface temperature. The main ARC objective is to reduce regional biases in retrieved SST to less than 0.1 K for all global oceans while creating a very homogenous record with a stability (lack of drift in the observing system and analysis) of 0.05 K per decade. ARC products are available for ATSR-1, ATSR-2 and AATSR. ARC products are provided in netCDF format and contain data for both the skin SST and the SST estimated for depths of 0.2 and 1.0 m (corresponding approximately to drifter and moored buoy depths). The AATSR estimated depth SSTs are adjusted to a local equatorial crossing time of 10:30 (approximately half an hour after observation), to provide continuity with ATSR-1 and ATSR-2 data. The ARC project was led by Chris Merchant (University of Reading, formerly of the University of Edinburgh) and funded by NERC and the UK Government.
Data - Fast Registration with approval (Restrained)
ERS-1/2 ATSR Averaged Surface Temperature [AT1/AT2_AR__2P]
The Averaged Surface Temperature Product (AST) contains averaged geophysical data at two different resolutions, and with respect to two different averaging schemes: measurement data sets at resolutions of 0.5 by 0.5 degrees and 10 by 10 arcmin with respect to a latitude/longitude grid; other data sets contain data averaged over equal area cells of 50 by 50 km and 17 by 17 km aligned with the satellite ground track. Both top-of-atmosphere and surface data sets are provided. The surface temperature data sets provide, for sea cells, nadir and dual view sea surface temperatures, and for land cells, land surface temperature (currently 11 micron BT) and NDVI. Cloud data is also included. No ADS are included in the AST product; auxiliary data is contained within the MDS. The data sets of the AST product are arranged by surface type and resolution. The 3rd reprocessing of ATSR data was performed in 2013; the processing updates that have been put in place and the scientific improvements are outlined in full in the User Summary Note for the Third ERS ATSR Reprocessing.