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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 - Maintenance News

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    26 Apr 2024

    ESA Envisat AATSR - dissemination maintenance on 30 April 2024

    A planned software maintenance activity will affect ESA’s Envisat AATSR data dissemination platform on Tuesday 30 April 2024 from 07:30 to 08:30 UTC

  • News - General News

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    8 Apr 2024

    ESA's improved Earth system data records: what is in store for the future?

    Fundamental Data Records (FDRs) are instrumental in advancing our understanding of Earth systems and for addressing societal challenges effectively. These long-term records contain uncertainty-quantified, calibrated and geo-located multi-instrument/multi-platform satellite sensor data spanning several decades to support climate-related applications.

  • News - Maintenance News

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    3 Apr 2024

    ESA data dissemination maintenance – 10 April 2024

    A planned software maintenance activity will affect ESA’s ERS and Envisat (A)SAR data dissemination service on 10 April 2024.

  • News - How to guides

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    27 Mar 2024

    HEDAVI 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 - Maintenance News

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    18 Mar 2024

    ESA EO Dissemination Services - Maintenance on 25 and 26 March 2024

    Scheduled software maintenance on ESA EO Dissemination Services on 25 and 26 March 2024

  • News - Data Release news

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    15 Feb 2024

    Envisat AATSR 4th reprocessing data now available on new ESA Dissemination Server

    The latest reprocessed Envisat AATSR Level 1B Brightness Temperature/Radiance dataset [ENV_AT_1_RBT] has now been migrated from simple FTP-S access to the new ESA (A)ATSR Online Dissemination Service.

  • News - Operational News

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    12 Feb 2024

    Temporary interruption to Envisat AATSR dissemination service

    A planned downtime will affect the access to the ftp dissemination server for the Envisat AATSR data during the period 13-15 February 2024.

  • News - Maintenance News

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    2 Feb 2024

    ESA Data Dissemination Maintenance - 8 February 2024

    A planned software maintenance activity will affect ESA's ERS and Envisat (A)SAR data dissemination service on Thursday 8 February 2024.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    30 Jan 2024

    Space data support Earth’s ecosystems

    ESA’s Earth observation (EO) missions are making a critical contribution to monitoring transformations in our planet’s ecosystems, helping track changes in the vegetation, soil, and ocean that affect these systems.

  • News - Operational News

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    13 Dec 2023

    Change of access to FTP-S for ERS and Envisat atmospheric and low-rate data

    As of 13 December 2023, access to a series of ERS and Envisat atmospheric and low rate data collections changed from simple FTP to FTP-S.

  • News - Success Stories

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    4 Dec 2023

    Discover 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 - Thematic area articles

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    29 Aug 2023

    Tracking the world’s forests from space

    As human activities continue to threaten the planet’s forests, data delivered by satellites are boosting global efforts to conserve these crucial natural resources.

  • News - Spotlight on EO community

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    30 June 2023

    Meet the Quality Assurance for EO Team

    The Quality Assurance For Earth Observation (also known as QA4EO) Service began its operations on 1 November 2019, providing support to the Data Quality and Algorithms Management Office at ESRIN, within the Sensor Performance, Processing and Algorithm section.

  • News - Success Stories

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    29 June 2023

    ESA missions help to reveal worldwide lake water loss trend

    Climate change, human consumption and sedimentation are depleting more than half of the world’s biggest lakes of water, according to a ground-breaking analysis that drew on three decades of satellite data.

  • News - Success Stories

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    28 Apr 2023

    ESA missions deliver new long-term perspective on sea ice decline

    A 29-year timeseries of polar sea ice thickness and volume that draws on altimetry data from a succession of ESA missions has been presented at the European Geoscience Union general assembly.

  • News - Success Stories

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    4 Apr 2023

    Envisat data show how volcanoes communicate with each other

    Using radar data from ESA’s Envisat mission, scientists have recently proven the elastic interaction between two Hawaiian volcanoes.

  • News - Spotlight on EO community

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    24 Mar 2023

    Introducing the Aeolus and CryoSat missions

    In this video, Tommaso Parrinello - Mission Manager of Aeolus and CryoSat - describes what is involved in managing the missions and the unique challenges offered by such innovative satellites.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    23 Mar 2023

    Remote sensing data underpin research on soil

    Environmental data disseminated by ESA’s Earth observation programmes provide knowledge about the stresses on Earth’s soils – aiding many applications such as crop management, drought and flood forecasting, and ecosystem protection.

  • News - Spotlight on EO community

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    17 Mar 2023

    Introducing Tommaso Parrinello

    In this short introduction, ESA's Aeolus and CryoSat Mission Manager, Tommaso Parrinello, describes his role in these two diverse missions.

  • News - Success Stories

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    1 Mar 2023

    Envisat delivers a decade of insights into ocean oil slicks

    More than ten years after it beamed its final image back to Earth, ESA’s Envisat satellite is still helping to investigate and address key societal and environmental challenges.