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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 - Publication - Paper

  

  Document - Publication - Paper

  Calibration strategy for ERS scatterometer data reprocessing.pdf

  Paper included in the Proceedings of SPIE Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2005 - vol.5977- Brugge (Belgium): Calibration strategy for ERS scatterometer data reprocessing. WS Cal/Val.

• Instrument - Scatterometers

  

  Instrument - Scatterometers

  SAR (ERS)

  The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument aboard ERS-1 and ERS-2 was capable of high precision change detection of surface heights.

• Instrument - Scatterometers

  

  Instrument - Scatterometers

  WS

  The Wind Scatterometer (WS) instrument, on board the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions, obtained information on wind speed and direction over the sea surface.

• Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

  

  Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

  ECMWF Report on ERS-2 scatterometer - cycle 74

  ECMWF Report on ers-2 scatterometer for cycle 74

• Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

  

  Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

  ECMWF Report on ERS-2 scatterometer - cycle 53

  ECMWF Report on ers-2 scatterometer for cycle 53

• 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

  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.

• Activity - Quality

  Activity - Quality

  REAPER

  The REAPER (REprocessing of Altimeter Products for ERS) project covers both the ERS-1 and the ERS-2 altimetry missions. The project aims to support and maintain data quality.

• Document - Publication - Paper

  

  Document - Publication - Paper

  The ERS Wind Scatterometer performances

  The ERS Wind Scatterometer mission: routine monitoring activities and results.

• Document - Technical Note

  

  Document - Technical Note

  ERS Wind Scatterometer mission routine performances

  The ERS Wind Scatterometer mission routine monitoring activities and results

• Document - Publication - Paper

  

  Document - Publication - Paper

  Stability of Amazon Backscatter at C-band- ERS1-2 and RADARSAT-1

  Stability of Amazon Backscatter at C-band: Spaceborne Results from ERS-1/2 and RADARSAT-1