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• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  Transforming space data into climate action

  ESA’s Earth observation activities are playing a key role in the revitalised global drive to combat climate change.

• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  How Envisat helped to shape global understanding of Earth’s systems

  Twenty years have passed since a ground-breaking European spacecraft designed to deliver unprecedented insight into the planet’s changing environment was lofted into orbit.

• Activity - Projects

  Activity - Projects

  Dragon 2 Cooperation Programme

  The Dragon Programme is a joint undertaking between ESA and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China designed to encourage increased exploitation of ESA and Chinese Earth Observation satellite data within China.

• News - Data Release news

  

  News - Data Release news

  New 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.

• Tools - Apps

  

  Tools - Apps

  Heritage Missions app for iOS

  Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.

• Tools - Apps

  

  Tools - Apps

  Heritage Missions app for Android

  Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.

• Document - Product Specifications

  

  Document - Product Specifications

  wind-scatterometer-processing-requirements-from-sigma-nought-triplets-to-dealiased-wind.pdf

  This document defines the ground processing algorithms for the ERS-1 AMI wind mode (Scatterometer) from the sigma nought triplets to the wind speed and direction, including the wind retrieval and the ambiguity removal processing.

• Instrument - Laser Ranging

  

  Instrument - Laser Ranging

  LRR ERS

  The Laser Retro-Reflector (LRR), on board the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions, was an optical device for accurate satellite tracking from the ground to support instrument data evaluation.

• Data - Data Description

  

  Data - Data Description

  ERS-1/2 SCATTEROMETER Nominal Resolution back-scattering measurements, Ocean Wind field [UWI]

  The ERS data reprocessed with the ASPS facility is also available in the UWI format to maintain the compatibility with the FD (Fast Delivery) pr...

• Data - Data Description

  

  Data - Data Description

  ERS-1/2 SCATTEROMETER Ocean Wind field and Sea Ice probability [ASPS20.H/ASPS20.N]

  Surface soil moisture records are derived from the backscatter coefficient measured by the Scatterometer on-board the European Remote Sensing sa...

• Mission - Heritage Missions

  

  Mission - Heritage Missions

  Envisat

  Envisat was ESA's successor to ERS. Envisat carried ten instruments aboard for a wide range of Earth observing fields. The mission was operational from 2002 to 2012.

• Mission - Heritage Missions

  

  Mission - Heritage Missions

  ERS

  The ERS programme was composed of two missions, ERS-1 and ERS-2, which together observed the Earth for 20 years, from 1991 to 2011.

• Data - Campaigns data

  Data - Campaigns data

  Request campaigns data

  Request data acquired during airborne campaigns, many of which were conducted in support of ESA missions.

• Instrument - Laser Ranging

  

  Instrument - Laser Ranging

  LRR (Envisat)

  The LRR instrument aboard Envisat was used to accurately determine the orbital height of the satellite.

• Activity - Quality

  Activity - Quality

  SCIRoCCo

  The SCIRoCCo project is an interdisciplinary cooperation of scatterometry experts aimed at promoting the continuing exploitation of ESA's unique 20 years' worth of ERS Scatterometer data.

• Document - Technical Note

  

  Document - Technical Note

  Study of a method to de-alias winds from ERS-1 data

  Final report of ESA contract CONTRACT 6074/87/GP.

• News - Data Release news

  News - Data Release news

  Updated Precise Orbit data (POD) for the full ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission available

  The Precise Orbit files (ERS.ORB.POD) for the entire ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission periods have been reprocessed with up-to-date standards.

• News - Data Release news

  News - Data Release news

  ERS-1 Scatterometer L2 dataset processed with ASPS v10.04 is available online

  The reprocessed dataset together with corresponding ERS-2 data is now available.

• Event - Training

  

  Event - Training

  Advanced Training Course in Ocean Remote Sensing 2011

  Within the framework of the Dragon Programme, a joint collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), ESA and NRSCC are providing a series of advanced thematic training courses on remote sensing applications hosted by university and research institutions in P.R. China.

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  EarthCARE-Earth-Clouds-Aerosols-and-Radiation-Explorer.pdf

  This report describes the EarthCARE mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.