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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.

• Event - Training

  

  Event - Training

  2nd Advanced Training Course on Ocean Remote Sensing 2009

  This advanced training course focused on ocean remote sensing theory and applications.

• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  ERS' Contribution to Altimetry

  Satellite radar altimetry missions have transformed the way we see Earth and its oceans. Using the ranging capability of radars, they measure the surface topography profile along a satellite’s track.

• 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.

• News - Maintenance News

  

  News - Maintenance News

  ESA data dissemination maintenance 22 July 2021

  A planned software maintenance will affect ESA's data dissemination services on 22 July 2021.

• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  ERS Heritage Data allow for 30 years of science

  At their time of launch thirty years ago, the two ERS satellites were the most sophisticated Earth observation spacecraft ever developed and launched by Europe.

• 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.

• 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.

• Data - Data Description

  

  Data - Data Description

  ERS-1/2 SAR IM L0 [SAR_IM__0P]

  This SAR Level 0 product is acquired in Image Mode. The products consist of the SAR telemetry data and are supplied as standard scenes. It also ...

• Data - Data Description

  

  Data - Data Description

  ERS-1/2 SAR IM Medium Resolution L1 [SAR_IMM_1P]

  This ERS Medium Resolution stripline product is generated from the Image Mode Level 0 Product. Stripline image products contain image data for a...

• Data - Data Description

  

  Data - Data Description

  ERS-1/2 SAR IM Precision L1 [SAR_IMP_1P]

  The SAR Precision product is a multi-look (speckle-reduced), ground range image acquired in Image Mode. This product type is most applicable to ...

• Data - Data Description

  

  Data - Data Description

  ERS-1/2 SAR IM Single Look Complex L1 [SAR_IMS_1P]

  The SAR SLC product is a single look complex acquired in Image Mode. It is a digital image, with slant range and phase preserved, generated from...

• 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.

• Document - Product Specifications, Technical Note

  

  Document - Product Specifications, Technical Note

  ERS-products-specification-with-Envisat-format.pdf

  ERS-products-specification-with-Envisat-format

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  SCI-GLS-14-0001-v01-Scatterometry-Glossary-1.2.pdf

  The Scatterometry Glossary defines the commonly agreed terminology to use in all the documents generated by the SCIRoCCo Consortium.

• 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 - User Guide

  

  Document - User Guide

  Envisat and ERS Missions Data Access Guide

  The purpose of this document is to help users identify the various types of data that are available from the ENVISAT, ERS-1 and ERS-2 Earth observing satellites, the kind of applications that the data may be used for and, importantly, the practical procedures required for access - including user registration and then search, selection and retrieval or ordering of the data of interest.

• Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

  

  Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

  ERS-1 Wind and Wave Calibration Workshop

  The proceedings from the ERS-1 Wind and Wave Calibration Workshop, held at Schliersee, Germany, from 02-06 June 1986 are presented in this document.