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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.

  • New Announcement of Opportunity offers maritime monitoring data from Unseenlabs

    16 Sept 2024

    ESA is offering access to radio-frequency data in a new Announcement of Opportunity for Unseenlabs. The Unseenlabs constellation currently consists of 15 satellites, which perform radio-frequency (RF) detection to enhance Maritime Domain Awareness. Data from the satellites complement Automatic Identification System (AIS), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and VMS (Vessel Monitoring System) technologies, improving capabilities to monitor maritime activity.

  • Setting the standard for drone-based validation of satellite data

    20 Dec 2023

    The ESA-supported Surface Reflectance Intercomparison eXercise for Vegetation (SRIX4Veg) – which began in 2022 – is working to put forward good-practice procedures agreed through a series of workshops and a dedicated UAV campaign.

  • New data available: GEOSAT-2 Portugal Coverage 2021

    1 Mar 2023

    A new collection is available to the public through ESA’s Earthnet Third Party Missions Programme: the GEOSAT-2 Portugal Coverage 2021.

  • ICEYE ESA archive collection now available to users

    6 Oct 2022

    ICEYE ESA archive collection is now available worldwide through ESA’s Third Party Missions programme. The ESA archive collections consist of products requested by ESA-supported projects worldwide, and, therefore, the products are scattered and dispersed over the territory in different time windows. The datasets regularly grow as ESA collects new products over the years.

  • PAZ ESA archive now open to users

    6 Oct 2022

    The PAZ ESA archive collection is now freely available for researchers worldwide through ESA's Third Party Missions programme.

  • Pléiades Neo data now open to users

    30 May 2022

    Very High Resolution optical Pléiades Neo data is available for research and development projects upon submission of a project proposal, subject to evaluation and acceptance by ESA and the data owner.

  • Vision-1 data now open to users

    17 May 2022

    In the framework of the Third Party Missions programme, ESA is offering, for scientific research and application development, access to archive and new tasking data from the Vision-1 mission upon submission and acceptance of a project proposal.

  • New imaging modes added to PAZ collection

    18 Jan 2022

    Two new imaging modes, Wide ScanSAR and Staring Spotlight, have been added to the PAZ offering and are now available to users for research and application development following submission of a project proposal subject to evaluation and acceptance by ESA and the data owner.

  • Introducing the newest Third Party Mission: ICEYE

    10 June 2021

    ESA's Earth Observation Programme Board has approved the integration of the ICEYE mission, as a Third Party Mission (TPM) within the framework of the ESA Earthnet programme.

  • PAZ data now available to users worldwide

    24 June 2020

    ESA is pleased to announce the availability of the PAZ satellite products to the scientific community, for R&D activities and start-ups.