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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 - Events and Proceedings
Special event for 10th anniversary of SMOS
Earth Explorers for Climate - The contribution from SMOS - an event to mark the 10th anniversary of SMOS mission.
News - Success Stories
Gravity Field Models from Swarm data
In addition to its geomagnetic objectives, GPS receivers onboard Swarm can and have already been exploited to measure temporal variations in Earth's global gravity field.
News - Success Stories
Forty years of heritage data highlight warming European lakes
In the last decade, climate change has taken centre stage in both the public and scientific arenas, as increasingly extreme weather and human impact on the environment have become more apparent.
News - Success Stories
Around the world in eight balloons with Strateole-2
Strateole-2 is a French-US project supported by ESA that uses CNES superpressure balloons drifting around the globe to study the climate processes in the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL) and the lower stratosphere, helping Aeolus validation activities along the way.
News - Operational News
Aeolus set for Instrument Telescope Refocussing exercise
Aeolus's telescope requires periodic collimation and refocussing. To this end, the Instrument Telescope Refocussing activity aims to improve the radiometric performance of the Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument's telescope, ALADIN.
News - General News
ICEYE data available for assessment
The SAR user community is invited to participate to the call to assess the suitability of the ICEYE constellation, for science and EO-based applications.
News - Operational News
A Guide to Aeolus Range Bin Settings
After almost two years in space, Aeolus' near-real time observations have been assimilated into the Numerical Weather Prediction models of several European meteorological services, and have proven crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a sharp decrease in meteorological observations.
News - General News
Introducing the Newest ESA Third Party Missions
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.
News - Success Stories
1 km resolution aerosol optical thickness retrieved from PROBA-V
The ESA SPAR@MEP project aims to deliver a long-term data record (LTDR) of aerosol optical properties and surface reflectance from SPOT-VGT and PROBA-V observations.
News - Infographics
SMOS - ESA's soil moisture and ocean salinity mission
Learn more about the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission in our latest infographic.
News - Success Stories
Drone-based Laser Scanning of Tropical Forests for Biomass Cal/Val
ESA’s upcoming mission Biomass will deliver valuable P-band SAR data aimed at forest aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation across the humid tropics.
News - Success Stories
ESA's open source computing project for the Biomass mission goes live
The Biomass Product Algorithm Laboratory (BioPAL) is an open-source scientific computing project, which supports the development of ESA’s Biomass mission algorithms coded in Python.
News - Data Release news
SMOS level 1 and level 2 products new baseline is now available
New versions of the SMOS processors for level 1 and 2 were deployed in the operational ground segment on 25 May 2021.
News - Data Release news
New SMOS Level 1 Near Real Time processing baseline released
A new version of the SMOS level 1 Near Real Time processor - version 724 - was deployed in the operational ground segment on 2 August 2021.
News - Data Release news
New SMOS Level 2 Near Real Time Neural Network Soil Moisture baseline is released
A new version of the SMOS level 2 Near Real Time processor - version 300 - was deployed in the operational ground segment on 2 August 2021.
News - Data Release news
New SMOS Near Real Time Sea Surface Wind Speed new baseline is released
A new version of the SMOS Sea Surface Wind Speed processor - version 300 - was deployed at IFREMER and ESA operational ground segments on 4 August 2021.
News - Success Stories
Askos campaign validates Aeolus data
From July to September 2021, the European Space Agency (ESA) organised the Joint Aeolus Tropical Atlantic Campaign (JATAC) in Cape Verde.
News - Success Stories
Ship trails in the Bay of Biscay observed using PROBA-V imagery
Ship trails have been perceived as convincing evidence of aerosol-cloud interaction. Ship emissions have been proven to contribute by about 1.9% and 2.9% to the increase in the global total and fine-mode aerosol optical thickness (AOT) respectively over a five year period (Peters et al. 20212).
News - General News
Updated SMOS documentation available
Updated versions of several SMOS data documents are now available.
News - Data Release news
SMOS sea ice thickness reprocessed data now available
The reprocessed SMOS level 3 and 4 sea ice thickness products over the Arctic are now available from the ESA SMOS Dissemination Service.