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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.

  • Meet the future of Earth Observation: Super-Resolution Data

    11 July 2024

    SUREDOS24 (Super-Resolution and Downscaling for Earth Observation and Earth Science) - provided a deep dive into how recent SR techniques are leveraging deep learning and artificial intelligence to push the boundaries of remote sensing.

  • Easy visualisation of Earth observation data with new HEDAVI tool modes

    25 June 2024

    The Discover mode in HEDAVI showcases the usefulness of Earth Observation (EO) data in a variety of applications through a list of case-studies—so-called “stories”. The first new feature allows users to share links to the stories in HEDAVI. The second new feature allows them to export any image of a case-study from the Discover mode to the Explorer mode.

  • HEDAVI Discover: a step-by-step guide

    27 Mar 2024

    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.

  • Go-to guide to Third Party Mission data offering

    27 Feb 2024

    ESA’s latest Third Party Missions Data Access Guide has been published, providing technical details and information on available data collections for all current or past Third Party Missions.

  • Sample data products from ESA’s Third Party Missions

    13 Feb 2024

    Samples of data products from a range of Third Party Missions are now available to download, offering a preview of what these missions provide.

  • ALOS PRISM L1C European Coverage Cloud Free data collection now available for users

    30 Aug 2023

    As part of Earthnet’s Third Party Missions Programme framework, ESA is pleased to announce that the ALOS PRISM L1C European Coverage Cloud Free data collection is now available for research purposes.

  • Long-term data: Summarising ESA’s Heritage missions

    2 Feb 2023

    ESA’s Heritage Space Programme preserves data from non-operational missions. Learn more about the Heritage missions in this video.

  • Highlights from Living Planet Symposium

    13 June 2022

    As remote sensing scientists and data-users from around the world converged at the Living Planet Symposium (LPS) in Bonn recently, a common thread was evident in many scientific sessions and meetings – the right environmental data can accelerate our understanding of the rapid changes in Earth’s system.

  • National missions in the spotlight at the Living Planet Symposium

    25 May 2022

    In the framework of ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme, the agency offers access to the full data archives of almost 50 satellite missions, which are owned by organisations around the world.

  • Full version of QRAS Portal released

    21 June 2021

    The new, full version, of the Quality Reports Advanced Search (QRAS) Portal launched today, adding new features to support users looking for Quality Control Reports on ESA and Third Party Missions.

  • ALOS PRISM collection now open

    7 Dec 2020

    A Japanese Earth-imaging satellite from JAXA, the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS-1) was part of ESA's Third Party Missions Programme, in which ESA has an agreement with JAXA to distribute its data products.

  • ESA’s Earth Observation Catalogue and its services

    29 Sept 2020

    EO-CAT is the EO Catalogue tool allowing users to search ESA and Third Party Mission collections.

  • ESA's new DataCube service is now available

    29 Sept 2020

    ESA is pleased to announce the deployment of a new service, called ESA PDGS-DataCube, enabling multi-temporal and pixel-based access to a subset of the data available in the European Space Agency dissemination services.

  • How to use ALOS PALSAR On The Fly

    17 June 2020

    The new ALOS PALSAR On-The-Fly processing and dissemination system now allows direct access to ESA’s ALOS PALSAR archive, without the need to interface with ESA’s Order Desk.

  • PolSARpro v6.0 (Biomass Edition) software new release

    13 June 2019

    Download the latest version of ESA's Polarimetric SAR data Processing and Educational Toolbox (PolSARpro).

  • ESA will continue to provide ocean colour data from Indian mission

    8 May 2018

    To further promote research and applications, ESA and a leading geo-information company agree to continue data acquisition from OceanSat-2.