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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 - Spotlight on EO community
Spotlight on Third Party Mission provider: EUSI
European Space Imaging (EUSI) is one of ESA’s suppliers of commercial Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery for scientific research in Earth Observation (EO).
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
Monitoring the health of wheat crops from space
Very high resolution space data can be used to improve the detection of a plant disease that impacts a major global cereal crop.
News - Success Stories
TPM data help advance plastic litter detection from space
Several innovative ESA Discovery element projects exploring remote sensing of plastic marine litter lean on commercial satellite data disseminated via the Agency’s Third Party Mission programme.
News - General News
International collaboration: Summarising ESA’s Third Party Missions
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world. Learn more about the Third Party Missions in this video.
News - Success Stories
Space data unearths small-scale mining in Burkina Faso
Satellite data from ESA’s Pléiades Third Party Mission and Copernicus Sentinel-2 were used to demonstrate that deep learning models can accurately and inexpensively identify artisanal and small-scale mining, even in challenging semi-desertic environments.
News - Success Stories
Showcasing success stories from ESA's Third Party Missions
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world.
News - Success Stories
Pléiades unlocks information about rock glaciers in central Himalaya
As climate change accelerates the melting of glacial ice, remote sensing scientists are tapping into the potential of Pléiades data to help vulnerable mountainous communities.
News - Thematic area articles
Global understanding of Earth's land surfaces greatly boosted by satellite data
ESA perform land surface monitoring with a range of instruments onboard satellites acquiring optical and radar data. Collections of data from these missions are freely available for research purposes.
News - Data Release news
Full 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 - Infographics
An overview of the very high-resolution WorldView constellation
Learn about the WorldView constellation, part of ESA’s Third Party Missions programme, in this infographic.
News - Infographics
A summary of ESA Third Party Mission collections
A new summary is available, showcasing the ESA archives for Third Party Mission collections.
News - Thematic area articles
Satellite data central to ocean monitoring
Over 95% of Earth’s water is found in our oceans, and yet sadly, oceans are under stress from climate change and pollution. Monitoring our oceans is vital for Earth’s survival and satellites are the primary means of long-term and independent observation of our vast ocean bodies and their associated coastal zones.
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 - Thematic area articles
Satellite data boost global understanding of land surface
Understanding our changing land surface is essential in the study of climate change. Satellites are used to monitor changes to the material that covers Earth’s surface, so-called land cover, such as vegetation and water.
News - Infographics
Timeline to over 40 years of historical satellite missions
ESA's Heritage Space Programme preserves historical data from over 40 years of Earth observation missions.
News - Data Release news
15 cm HD and 30 cm HD products added to EUSI ESA archive collections
Two new products, 15 cm HD and 30 cm HD, have been added to the collections from GeoEye-1, QuickBird-2, and WorldView (1 – 4).
News - Success Stories
Pléiades celebrates 10 years and extends satellite fleet with Pléiades Neo
ESA is proud to mark the 10-year milestone of the Pléiades programme, a forerunner in providing very high resolution (VHR) commercial satellite imagery ideal for precision mapping and in-depth intelligence.
News - Infographics
An overview of the very high-resolution Pleiades satellites
Find out about the achievements of the Pléiades programme in this infographic.
News - Spotlight on EO community
Meet a young researcher who combines remote sensing with deep learning techniques
Researcher MSc. Anupama Rajkumar recently investigated whether VHR satellite imagery could be combined with advanced deep learning techniques to automate the detection of waste landfills.