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NEWS
Discover the latest news on the European Space Agency's Earth Observation activities. Learn all about new data availability and how ESA's missions are performing.
News - Infographics
22 Sept 2023Quick guide to Announcement of Opportunity submission
This infographic provides a quick guide to learn how to access data or participate in activities offered through ESA's Announcement of Opportunity mechanism.
News - Maintenance News
22 Sept 2023Maintenance on Earth Online on 28 September
The Earth Online website will be unavailable on 28 September, from 07:00 to 11:30 UTC.
News - Success Stories
21 Sept 2023Rome supersite helps validate atmospheric space data
In the sprawling, urban area of Rome, where atmospheric composition is impacted by complex coastal weather and pollution, ESA supports a powerful observatory spread across several locations.
News - Data Release news
20 Sept 2023Global glacier mass change data now available from CryoSat
Measuring glacier mass changes from space is more accurate and comprehensive thanks to the CryoTEMPO-EOLIS CryoSat swath data products, which now cover glaciers worldwide.
News - Maintenance News
19 Sept 2023ESA EO Services - maintenance on 26 September 2023
A software maintenance has been scheduled on Tuesday, 26 September 2023 from 08:00 to 14:00 UTC.
News - Data Release news
18 Sept 2023CryoSat Ice Baseline-E Reprocessed Data - Update
Previously, quality checks of the Ice Baseline-E reprocessing products observed a discrepancy in the metadata of products with incremented version numbers (E002, E003).
News - Maintenance News
18 Sept 2023Maintenance on EO websites on 22 September
A maintenance activity is scheduled for several EO websites on 22 September.
News - General News
14 Sept 2023Cloud-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 - Data Release news
14 Sept 2023New release of TII Raw And Corrected Imagery Spectra dataset
An updated version of the TII Raw And Corrected Imagery / Spectra dataset (TRACIS version 0201) at low resolution (TISL1B) and high resolution (TISH1B) is available for the three Swarm spacecraft on the Swarm dissemination server
News - Operational News
13 Sept 2023CryoSat Orbit under Investigation
A difference has been noticed between CryoSat predicted and actual orbits.
News - Success Stories
13 Sept 2023ESA Earth observation archives preserved in Arctic vault
ESA has added to its store of Earth observation records housed in a secure vault in the Norwegian Arctic, ensuring that knowledge from a crucial chapter in European remote sensing history is safeguarded for future generations.
News - Data Release news
12 Sept 2023Additional Swarm Langmuir Probe Ion Drift, Density and Effective Mass dataset 0201 available for Swarm
Additional Swarm Langmuir probe Ion Drift, density and effective Mass (SLIDEM) dataset at 2 Hz cadence, baseline 0201, is now available on the Swarm dissemination server for all the Swarm satellites.
News - Maintenance News
11 Sept 2023ESA EO-CAT Catalogue - Maintenance on 21 September 2023
A Software maintenance activity affecting the ESA EO-CAT Catalogue has been planned on Thursday 21 September 2023, from 07:00 to 10:00 UTC. Access to the EO-CAT Catalogue, may not be available during the indicated time range.
News - Success Stories
31 Aug 2023New CryoSat data to boost understanding of the oceans
A new CryoSat sea level anomaly product designed to enable ocean science and the development of operational marine applications has been released.
News - Success Stories
30 Aug 2023Synergy of space data helps modernise irrigation systems
The growing demands on agriculture, coupled with the climate crisis, are pressurising Earth’s valuable freshwater resources and making assessment of water practices ever more important.
News - Data Release news
30 Aug 2023ALOS PRISM L1C European Coverage Cloud Free data collection now available for users
As part of Earthnet’s Third Party Missions Programme framework, ESA is pleased to announce that the ALOS PRISM L1C European Coverage Cloud Free data collection is now available for research purposes.
News - Operational News
30 Aug 2023Restored nominal L1B attitude and magnetic data quality and patched MAG-L dataset available on dissharm
Following-up on the recent communications about degraded attitude and magnetic data on Swarm L1B dataset starting from October and December 2018 and from 24 June 2023 the nominal quality of Level 1B data has been restored since 25 August 2023 .
News - Maintenance News
30 Aug 2023Aeolus dissemination - Maintenance on 04 September 2023
A maintenance activity affecting the Aeolus data dissemination service has been planned on 4 September 2023.
News - Thematic area articles
29 Aug 2023Tracking 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.
News - Operational News
28 Aug 2023Issue with B_NEC magnetic L1B data on all three Swarm spacecraft
We inform Swarm users that an issue has been detected in the L1B data processing chain since the production of 24 June 2023, when a processing library update was performed.