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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 - Data Release news
5 Mar 2018PROBA-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.
News - Data Release news
8 May 2018ESA will continue to provide ocean colour data from Indian mission
To further promote research and applications, ESA and a leading geo-information company agree to continue data acquisition from OceanSat-2.
News - Data Release news
20 June 2018New 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.
News - Data Release news
6 Dec 2018GOME TCWV Climate product available online
GOME Total Column Water Vapour (TCWV) Climate product developed within the ESA GOME-Evolution project is now accessible from the ESA data archives together with the ERS-2 GOME data.
News - Data Release news
18 Dec 2018Image 2007 European coverage available
The "Image 2007" European Coverage collection is now available to users.
News - Data Release news
7 Mar 2019PROBA-V 2018-2019 Antarctica data now available
For the second consecutive austral summer season, PROBA-V observed Antarctica and its ongoing changes.
News - Operational News
15 May 2019PROBA-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.
News - General News
29 July 2019Three new Third Party Missions under evaluation
ICEYE, PlanetScope and Spire under evaluation. Interested users can investigate suitability of the data for scientific and R&D activities.
News - Data Release news
12 Aug 2019PlanetScope and SkySat data now available
PlanetScope and SkySat missions under evaluation. Interested users can investigate suitability of the data for scientific and R&D activities.
News - Data Release news
25 Feb 2020SPOT 4-5 Take 5 ESA archive online dataset
ESA is pleased to announce the availability of SPOT 4-5 Take 5 products to the scientific community.
News - Success Stories
1 Apr 2020New life for Landsat historical data
45 years of data, more than 1.8 million images, these are the numbers of an adventure started 48 years ago with the launch of the first Landsat satellite.
News - Data Release news
15 May 2020ESA TPM collection ‘Worldview-2 European Cities’ expanded
The WorldView-2 European Cities ESA dataset has been enriched with 3,149 additional products.
News - General News
24 July 2020SPOT 1 to 5 production now suspended
Following the news of 14 May 2020, Airbus will now suspend the production of SPOT 1 to 5 data.
News - General News
29 Jan 2021Release of CHRIS PROBA-1 toolbox for SNAP
PROBA -1 continues to provide valuable hyperspectral data to the scientific community, and so the tools to handle this data have been incorporated into ESA’s SNAP multi-mission toolbox.
News - Infographics
16 July 2021ERS - ESA’s first Earth observation satellites
To mark the 30th anniversary of ERS, we've released a new infographic summarising the mission.
News - Success Stories
19 July 2021ERS Heritage Data allow for 30 years of science
At their time of launch thirty years ago, the two ERS satellites were the most sophisticated Earth observation spacecraft ever developed and launched by Europe.
News - Data Release news
22 July 2021New reprocessing of datasets celebrates 30 years of ERS
The ERS programme celebrated its 30th anniversary on 17 July. Today, we are still exploiting ERS data and experts continue to work on improving the altimeter, radiometer and SAR data the programme acquired.
News - Success Stories
13 Dec 2021Ship trails in the Bay of Biscay observed using PROBA-V imagery
Ship trails have been perceived as convincing evidence of aerosol-cloud interaction. Ship emissions have been proven to contribute by about 1.9% and 2.9% to the increase in the global total and fine-mode aerosol optical thickness (AOT) respectively over a five year period (Peters et al. 20212).
News - Infographics
16 Dec 2021An overview of the very high-resolution Pleiades satellites
Find out about the achievements of the Pléiades programme in this infographic.
News - Success Stories
17 Dec 2021Pléiades 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.