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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 - General News
9 Apr 2024Earth scientists better exploit Swarm data with virtual workspace
The ESA-funded Swarm virtual workspace is helping scientists make the most of a decade of valuable magnetic field data.
News - General News
2 Apr 2024New Swarm Field Aligned Current web tool available
We are pleased to announce that a new Field Aligned Currents (FAC) web tool is available
News - How to guides
27 Mar 2024HEDAVI Discover: a step-by-step guide
The Heritage Data Visualisation tool (HEDAVI) is a platform developed by the French Science Consulting for Earth Observation group, VisioTerra, which allows users to freely access over 40 years of ESA Earth Observation Heritage data, Third Party Missions and some Copernicus data.
News - Success Stories
26 Mar 2024Ten years of Swarm data help reveal processes in Earth’s core
The tenth birthday of ESA’s three-satellite Swarm constellation has been a game changer for research into Earth’s magnetic field and core dynamics, as set out by an ESA-funded project.
News - Success Stories
7 Mar 2024Magnetic magic: 10 reasons to be excited about Swarm
In November 2023, Swarm celebrated an impressive ten years in orbit. In that time, ESA’s magnetic mission has honed in on all sorts of mysteries - from tussling magnetic blobs to animal migration.
News - Success Stories
4 Dec 2023Discover Earth like never before: the HEDAVI tool
The Heritage Data Visualisation tool, or HEDAVI, enables the analysis of global spatio-temporal dynamics of natural and artificial environments, covering over 40 years of ESA Earth Observation Heritage data, Third Party Missions and some Copernicus data.
News - Events and Proceedings
31 Oct 2023Workshop celebrates end of long-running PROBA-1 satellite
In January, ESA will mark the end of its long-running CHRIS sensor onboard the PROBA-1 satellite in a special workshop.
News - Data Release news
25 Sept 2023New version release of Swarm Level 2 EEF data
An updated version of the Swarm Level 2 product Equatorial Electric Field (EEF) v0304 is now available on Swarm dissemination server.
News - Thematic area articles
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 - Success Stories
17 Aug 2023Commercial and international data for fire monitoring
As climate change sparks a surge in the frequency and intensity of wildfires, satellite data disseminated through ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme are helping scientists to track and investigate these potentially damaging natural events.
News - General News
16 May 2023Big ambitions as Swarm mission soars on
For nearly a decade ESA’s magnetic field mission has taken us on a journey from Earth’s core to the magnetosphere, and almost everything in between.
News - Success Stories
20 Apr 2023New cross-calibration readies PROBA-1 data for climate research
While PROBA-1 has already exceeded expectations by suppling over 21 years of Earth observation hyperspectral data, recent cross-calibration activities are aiming to ensure the data will robustly serve long time-series research, even when the satellite ends operations.
News - General News
13 Apr 2023New Swarm Product Data Handbook available
We are pleased to announce that a new Swarm Product Data Handbook page is now available.
News - Data Release news
22 Mar 2023Additional EFI TII Raw And Corrected Imagery and Spectra (TRACIS) dataset 0102 available for Swarm
Additional EFI TII Raw And Corrected Imagery and Spectra (TRACIS) data is now available on the Swarm dissemination server for all the Swarm satellites.
News - Data Release news
22 Mar 2023Additional EFI TII Cross Track Flow dataset 0302 available for Swarm
Additional TII cross-track flow data is now available on the Swarm dissemination server for all the Swarm satellites.
News - General News
21 Mar 2023ESA's excellent Earth Explorer missions extended to 2025
Since 2009, ESA’s Earth Explorer missions have pioneered breakthrough technologies and transformed our understanding of Earth’s system, from its core to the outer stretches of the atmosphere.
News - Success Stories
20 Oct 2022Swarm data help estimate the impact of space weather
Energy from space weather mostly deposits itself as heat in the upper atmosphere, posing risks to satellites orbiting in the same altitude.
News - Data Release news
27 Sept 2022Full European Landsat data collection now available under the same catalogue
The Full European Landsat data collection, from Landsat-1 to Landsat-8, is now available under the same catalogue
News - Data Release news
22 July 2022New GRACE and GRACE-FO thermosphere datasets released
The Swarm DISC project Thermosphere Observations from Low-Earth Orbiting Satellites (TOLEOS) reprocessed all GRACE and GRACE-FO data to obtain new thermosphere density and crosswind datasets.
News - Infographics
22 July 2022A summary of ESA Third Party Mission collections
A new summary is available, showcasing the ESA archives for Third Party Mission collections.