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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
22 Mar 2018ESA 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.
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 - Infographics
21 Apr 2020PROBA-V - ESA's vegetation monitoring mission
ESA's vegetation-monitoring mission - Proba-V - will end operations in June 2020 after seven years.
News - Success Stories
19 May 2020Forty years of heritage data highlight warming European lakes
In the last decade, climate change has taken centre stage in both the public and scientific arenas, as increasingly extreme weather and human impact on the environment have become more apparent.
News - General News
18 June 2020ICEYE data available for assessment
The SAR user community is invited to participate to the call to assess the suitability of the ICEYE constellation, for science and EO-based applications.
News - Operational News
10 Aug 2020New experimental phase for PROBA-V
PROBA-V has begun a new experimental phase that will continue through to October 2021.
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29 Oct 2020RADARSAT-2 ESA archive online collection
The RADARSAT-2 ESA archive collection is now available on TPM LOADS Dissemination server.
News - Infographics
3 Dec 2020Envisat - ESA's versatile Earth observation satellite
Learn more about ESA's Envisat mission - the largest Earth observation satellite ever built - in a new infographic.
News - Data Release news
15 Dec 2020New Campaign datasets available
A new set of datasets is available, acquired during airborne campaigns conducted between 2014 and 2019
News - General News
22 Dec 2020Introducing the Newest ESA Third Party Missions
ESA's Earth Observation Programme Board has unanimously approved the integration of the Federated Satellite Systems (FSSCat) mission, the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) instrument on-board the GEO-KOMPSAT-2B satellite and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, as Third Party Missions.
News - Success Stories
3 Feb 2021Traceability of AERONET-EUROPE to the GAWPFR WMO reference for Aerosol Optical Depth
Within the IDEAS-QA4EO ESA project a precision filter radiometer (PFR) travelling standard was installed at the European calibration site of AERONET to provide continuous traceability of aerosol optical depth measurements to the World reference maintained at Davos through a PFR Triad.
News - Success Stories
5 Mar 2021Monitoring aerosol properties in the Indian Ocean
A ship-borne photometer of CIMEL CE318-T type was permanently installed in early January 2021 aboard the French research vessel Marion Dufresne in the frame of the MAP-IO (Marion Dufresne Atmospheric Program - Indian Ocean) research programme
News - Success Stories
15 Mar 20211 km resolution aerosol optical thickness retrieved from PROBA-V
The ESA SPAR@MEP project aims to deliver a long-term data record (LTDR) of aerosol optical properties and surface reflectance from SPOT-VGT and PROBA-V observations.
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13 Apr 2021Drone-based Laser Scanning of Tropical Forests for Biomass Cal/Val
ESA’s upcoming mission Biomass will deliver valuable P-band SAR data aimed at forest aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation across the humid tropics.
News - Success Stories
6 May 2021ESA's open source computing project for the Biomass mission goes live
The Biomass Product Algorithm Laboratory (BioPAL) is an open-source scientific computing project, which supports the development of ESA’s Biomass mission algorithms coded in Python.
News - Infographics
31 May 2021Aeolus - ESA's mission dedicated to winds, aerosols and clouds
Learn more about ESA's youngest Earth Explorer - the Aeolus mission - in our latest infographic
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15 Oct 2021Askos campaign validates Aeolus data
From July to September 2021, the European Space Agency (ESA) organised the Joint Aeolus Tropical Atlantic Campaign (JATAC) in Cape Verde.
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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.