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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 - Success Stories

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    10 Jan 2018

    Oceans and atmosphere interlinked

    ESA's Climate Change Initiative is compiling data from Earth Observation satellites across multiple oceans and atmosphere parameters.

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    23 Feb 2018

    Carbon cycle

    Satellites and ESA’s Climate Change Initiative are helping to improve our understanding of the carbon cycle and its role in climate change.

  • News - Data Release news

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    5 Mar 2018

    PROBA-V data available over Antarctica

    Due to a huge amount of interest, it was decided to acquire PROBA-V data over Antarctica from November 2017 to February 2018.

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    21 Mar 2018

    New Ocean Monitoring Indicators provide key reference for climate change

    Copernicus Marine Service has released a new ocean information product. The Ocean Monitoring Indicators (OMIs) are free downloadable datasets.

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    22 Mar 2018

    ESA forms new Earth observation advisory group

    ESA forms new Earth observation advisory group on matters concerning Earth sciences included in ESA's Earth observation science programme.

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    20 June 2018

    New ERS-2 GOME Level 1 v5.1 dataset available online

    A new GOME Level 1b dataset has been generated for the 16-year mission period bringing relevant quality improvements for the revised calibration approach, compensating aging and instrument degradation, and provide enhanced accessibility.

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    25 Sept 2018

    Spotlight on sea-level rise

    Scientists to share findings on how satellite has revealed changes in the height of the sea, ice, inland bodies of water and more.

  • News - Operational News

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    22 Nov 2018

    Climate analysis toolbox updated

    ESA's climate analysis toolbox updated, and can supercharge climate-change research studies for scientists and degree-level students.

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    5 Dec 2018

    Copernicus Sentinel-5P ozone boosts daily forecasts

    Measurements of atmospheric ozone from Sentinel-5P are now being used in daily forecasts of air quality.

  • News - Operational News

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    4 Jan 2019

    Envisat-ERS (A)SAR - Enhanced Dissemination Service

    ESA is pleased to announce the release of several new features as part of the ESA On-The-Fly data processing and dissemination service.

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    18 Jan 2019

    ALOS PALSAR Ice Polar Year Antarctica dataset now available

    ALOS PALSAR IPY Antarctica dataset is now available to the scientific community through an improved service: it is possible to easily select and download the products from an online map of Antarctica.

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    23 Jan 2019

    Changing lands

    Animation shows how satellite data and ESA's Climate Change Initiative are mapping land cover around the globe.

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    4 Mar 2019

    Methane and ozone data products from Copernicus Sentinel-5P

    Sentinel-5P used to produce global maps of atmospheric gases, methane and ozone, to give insight into where these gases are coming from.

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    7 Mar 2019

    PROBA-V 2018-2019 Antarctica data now available

    For the second consecutive austral summer season, PROBA-V observed Antarctica and its ongoing changes.

  • News - Events and Proceedings

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    10 May 2019

    Living Planet Live

    Re-watch the opening session of ESA’s Living Planet Symposium. Held in Milan, Italy, on 13–17 May 2019, it is the world’s biggest conference on Earth observation to date.

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    13 May 2019

    ESA's Earth Explorers surpassing expectations

    In this video, learn how each Earth Explorer mission is contributing to Earth science, and changing the way we look at our beloved planet.

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    14 May 2019

    Mapping salty waters

    The length and precision with which climate scientists can track the salinity, or saltiness, of the oceans is set to improve dramatically.

  • News - Operational News

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    15 May 2019

    PROBA-V global land cover maps released

    Copernicus Global Land Service team have released their new set of global land cover layers for the year 2015.

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    6 June 2019

    TerraSAR-X ESA archive dataset now available

    TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X products are available to the scientific community.

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    12 July 2019

    Updated Precise Orbit data (POD) for the full ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission available

    The Precise Orbit files (ERS.ORB.POD) for the entire ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission periods have been reprocessed with up-to-date standards.