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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.
  • Φ-Week Triumphs

    25 Oct 2021

    In its fourth edition, Φ-Week presented the scientific community with amazing opportunities and projects—thus running alongside innovation at 360 degrees.

  • VHR Data Quality in the limelight

    8 June 2022

    In recent years, the satellite landscape has steadily expanded with a variety of very high resolution (VHR) commercial satellites, also emerging from new space providers. A result of this growth is an increased need to address data quality assurance.

  • Very High Resolution data to take centre stage

    28 Sept 2022

    In the last few years, European New Space providers have helped strengthen the offering of very high resolution remote sensing data products—a designated workshop this November aims to focus on the latest developments in this arena.

  • Three new Third Party Missions under evaluation

    29 July 2019

    ICEYE, PlanetScope and Spire under evaluation. Interested users can investigate suitability of the data for scientific and R&D activities.

  • Spot Extended Area mode added to ICEYE on-demand portfolio

    28 July 2022

    As an evolution of Spot mode, Spot Extended Area products are now available with the same resolution of Spot data (ground resolution of 1 m) but enabling to cover the area of 225 km2 (15 x 15 km) in a single SAR image.

  • Scientists to showcase value of Earth observation data at EGU

    21 Apr 2023

    Remote sensing scientists are getting ready to present innovative and exciting applications of satellite data at the European Geosciences Union general assembly which will take place from 24 to 28 April in Vienna, Austria.

  • New version of Third Party Missions data access guide

    20 Aug 2024

    ESA’s Third Party Missions data access guide is now updated, providing the details of the latest data collections and changes to existing datasets.

  • 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.

  • International collaboration: Summarising ESA’s Third Party Missions

    16 Feb 2023

    ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world. Learn more about the Third Party Missions in this video.

  • 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.

  • ICEYE Dwell mode now available to users

    22 Mar 2024

    ICEYE Dwell mode products are now available through ESA’s Third Party Missions programme.

  • ICEYE data available for assessment

    18 June 2020

    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.

  • 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.

  • GLOC 2023: Democratising data access key to climate action

    1 June 2023

    The need for easy access to remote sensing data and making them more digestible to the local user community, were take home messages from the first Global Space Conference on Climate Change (GLOC), held in Oslo, Norway, last week.

  • 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.

  • Commercial data quality activities to receive a boost at VH-RODA 2024

    17 Sept 2024

    World-leading experts, New Space data providers, international space agencies and the scientific community will present the status of state-of-the-art satellite products and explore the latest developments in Calibration/Validation (Cal/Val) at ESA’s fifth VH-RODA workshop.