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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
Featuring the power of Earth observation data at EGU
The European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2024 brings together geoscientists from all over the world, aiming to provide a forum where scientists and early career researchers can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts, in all fields of geoscience.
News - Thematic area articles
How to use space data to probe humankind’s ancient past
Data disseminated by ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme are enabling archaeological investigations that could help to unravel the mysteries of past societies and cultures.
News - Success Stories
Commercial 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 - Thematic area articles
Remote sensing data map impacts of natural hazards
As climate change increases the frequency and severity of natural disasters, remote sensing data can warn about extreme events and help tackle emergency situations.
News - Infographics
Twin satellites - TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X
DLR's TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X are twin satellites flying in close formation to acquire SAR data of unique geometric accuracy. Operating together, the missions deliver data that are used to generate Digital Elevation Models of Earth.
News - Thematic area articles
How scientists use space data to help advance the energy transition
Scientists are using remote sensing data disseminated by ESA to support the green transformation of world’s power generation infrastructure.
News - Success Stories
Long-term satellite data show wind farms can affect local air currents
Decades of satellite data have allowed for the first long-term study of the impact of offshore wind farms on downstream wind flow in coastal areas.
News - Success Stories
New open-source Python library improves rapid mapping services
In emergency services, rapid response is paramount. ICube-SERTIT’s Rapid Mapping Service provides near real-time delivery of geo-information to help emergency services respond quickly to disasters such as flooding, fires and landslides. A new Python open-source library, called EOReader, speeds up this mapping response by enabling the easy opening of imagery from multiple satellite sensors, both optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR).
News - Spotlight on EO community
Meet ESA's Swarm Mission Manager
Anja Strømme, ESA's Swarm Mission Manager, describes in detail the wonders of the Swarm mission.
News - Infographics
An overview of ESA's Third Party Missions programme
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of almost 50 satellite missions, which are owned by organisations around the world. ESA has agreements with these organisations to acquire, process, and distribute data from their missions
News - Events and Proceedings
Φ-Week Triumphs
In its fourth edition, Φ-Week presented the scientific community with amazing opportunities and projects—thus running alongside innovation at 360 degrees.
News - Data Release news
New Swarm Ion Temperature Estimation (SITE) data product released
A new dataset of Swarm Ion Temperature Estimation (SITE) is now available for the three Swarm spacecraft.
News - Infographics
Swarm - ESA's magnetic field satellite mission
Learn more about ESA's Swarm mission, an Earth Explorer dedicated to studying Earth's magnetic field, in our latest infographic.
News - Operational News
New version of the Swarm Weekly Quality Report
Starting from the week 8-14 April, a new version of the Swarm Quality Report will be introduced.
News - Operational News
Swarm Charlie: EFI data gap from 2 to 4 June 2019
Due to an issue with the EFI on-board Swarm Charlie, no Langmuir Probe data is available for 2 to 4 June 2019.
News - Events and Proceedings
Eighth Swarm Data Quality Workshop report published in EOS
A summary of the 2018 Swarm Data Quality Workshop has been published in the Earth and Space Science (EOS) journal.
News - Operational News
Swarm Alpha: L1B ASM data gap from 13 to 20 May 2019
From 13 to 20 May 2019, the ASM (Absolute Scalar Magnetometer) instrument on board Swarm Alpha was commanded in burst mode.
News - Operational News
Swarm Alpha: EFI data gap on 12 May 2019
An EFI/TII gain calibration map has been executed on 12 May 2019 onboard Swarm Alpha.
News - General News
Significant improvements on Swarm Thermal Ion Imagers data
Constant improvement in the strategies to operate the two Thermal Ion Imager sensors on-board each Swarm spacecraft allow increase in data coverage and quality.
News - Operational News
Swarm Alpha and Charlie: STR instruments set at 2 Hz rate from December 2018
The attitude information of the Swarm Star Tracker (STR) instruments are set at 2 Hz rate from December 2018, instead of the previous 1 Hz.