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The divine keeper of the winds retires
24 Apr 2023
ESA’s fifth Earth Explorer - Aeolus - is due to retire soon, but will provide fully nominal data up to the end of operations on 30 April.
Temporary interruption to Envisat AATSR dissemination service
12 Feb 2024
A planned downtime will affect the access to the ftp dissemination server for the Envisat AATSR data during the period 13-15 February 2024.
Submit your abstracts for EarthCARE Pre-Launch Science and Validation Workshop
11 May 2023
Invitations are now open for the EarthCARE Pre-Launch Science and Validation Workshop, which will take place at ESRIN in Frascati, Italy, from 13 to 17 November.
Setting the standard for drone-based validation of satellite data
20 Dec 2023
The ESA-supported Surface Reflectance Intercomparison eXercise for Vegetation (SRIX4Veg) – which began in 2022 – is working to put forward good-practice procedures agreed through a series of workshops and a dedicated UAV campaign.
PROBA-V’s companion explores low-cost remote sensing
4 Oct 2023
With the launch of PROBA-V’s Companion CubeSat (PV-CC), ESA supports a future where clusters of cheaper, small satellites could complement full-scale missions for Earth observation.
PROBA-V ‘Collection 2’ - Reprocessed Dataset available
11 Apr 2023
The improved PROBA-V data (Collection 2) has been released. Data is available via the PROBA-V MEP and Terrascope platforms so users can freely exploit the data using Virtual machines, Jupyter Notebooks, and the new viewing application.
PlanetScope and Skysat data available through ESA’s Third Party Missions Programme
20 May 2022
Through ESA’s Third Party Missions Programme, researchers, scientists and companies from around the world can apply to access Planet’s high-frequency, high-resolution satellite data for non-commercial use.
Overachieving SMOS mission primed for continued success
27 Mar 2023
ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission (SMOS) was the second Earth Explorer launched in 2009. Over 13 years on, having already vastly exceeded its predicted lifetime and initial objectives, the mission has been further extended until at least the end of 2025.
New FLEX-related campaign datasets released
31 Jan 2024
New datasets have been released for three campaigns, covering activities supporting the upcoming FLEX mission.
New experimental phase for PROBA-V
10 Aug 2020
PROBA-V has begun a new experimental phase that will continue through to October 2021.
New Campaign datasets available
15 Dec 2020
A new set of datasets is available, acquired during airborne campaigns conducted between 2014 and 2019
New Aeolus Processing Baseline 16 now activated
20 Apr 2023
The new Aeolus processing baseline 16 was activated on Tuesday 18 April 2023.
Life beyond re-entry: new Aeolus data a breath of fresh air
16 July 2024
Aeolus data are still improving our understanding of weather and atmospheric science. In Spring 2024, the Aeolus data, science and innovation cluster (DISC) released a new public data update (Baseline 16), with a range of exciting new features.
Launch of Aeolus VRE
23 Mar 2022
The Aeolus Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is a cloud service, which provides users with a web-based development environment in the form of a JupyterLab workspace.
Last call for EarthCARE workshop abstracts
23 June 2023
The abstract submission deadline for the EarthCARE Pre-Launch Science and Validation Workshop is just a week away. If you would like to present your work at the workshop, submit your abstract by 10 July.
Introducing the Newest ESA Third Party Missions
22 Dec 2020
ESA's Earth Observation Programme Board has unanimously approved the integration of the Federated Satellite Systems (FSSCat) mission, the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) instrument on-board the GEO-KOMPSAT-2B satellite and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, as Third Party Missions.
Improved Aeolus wind data now available
20 Dec 2022
ESA’s Aeolus mission continues to advance weather forecasting with further data improvements, thanks to a third reprocessing campaign.
Highlights from Living Planet Symposium
13 June 2022
As remote sensing scientists and data-users from around the world converged at the Living Planet Symposium (LPS) in Bonn recently, a common thread was evident in many scientific sessions and meetings – the right environmental data can accelerate our understanding of the rapid changes in Earth’s system.
GOSAT – TANSO-FTS observations unavailability
12 Apr 2023
Due to an inclination control manoeuvre of the JAXA GOSAT-1 satellite, the TANSO-FTS sensor observations have been suspended.
Go-to guide to Third Party Mission data offering
27 Feb 2024
ESA’s latest Third Party Missions Data Access Guide has been published, providing technical details and information on available data collections for all current or past Third Party Missions.