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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 - General News

  

  News - General News

  PROBA-1 Infographic

  Learn about ESA's PROBA-1 (Project for On-Board Autonomy) mission in our new infographic.

• News - General News

  

  News - General News

  Vision-1 infographic

  Learn about Vision-1, which joined ESA's Third Party Missions programme in May, in our new infographic.

• News - Events and Proceedings

  

  News - Events and Proceedings

  Highlights from Living Planet Symposium

  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.

• News - Events and Proceedings

  

  News - Events and Proceedings

  VHR Data Quality in the limelight

  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.

• News - Events and Proceedings

  

  News - Events and Proceedings

  Data preservation takes centre stage at Living Planet Symposium

  Against the backdrop of the famed Rhine River, world-class scientists and Earth observation data-users are gathered this week in the historical city of Bonn, at the Living Planet Symposium (LPS).

• News - Events and Proceedings

  

  News - Events and Proceedings

  National missions in the spotlight at the Living Planet Symposium

  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.

• News - Data Release news

  

  News - Data Release news

  PlanetScope and Skysat data available through ESA’s Third Party Missions Programme

  Through ESA’s Third Party Missions Programme, researchers, scientists and companies from around the world can apply to access Planet’s high-frequency, high-resolution satellite data for non-commercial use.

• News - Data Release news

  

  News - Data Release news

  Vision-1 data now open to users

  In the framework of the Third Party Missions programme, ESA is offering, for scientific research and application development, access to archive and new tasking data from the Vision-1 mission upon submission and acceptance of a project proposal.

• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  Vision-1 to enable cutting-edge science and spur innovation

  Vision-1 – which is the result of a collaboration between Airbus Defence and Space and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) – provides sub-metric imagery to support activities across many industries, including urban planning, agricultural monitoring, land classification, natural resource management and disaster monitoring.

• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  Predicting crop yield using Planet data

  The world’s population continues to grow, while the climate crisis is raising Earth’s temperatures and increasing the likelihood of extreme weather events – all of which affect food security.

• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  Space data help to unravel the complexities of Earth’s atmosphere

  As the impacts of the climate crisis intensify, scientists are using ESA’s Earth observation archives to investigate atmospheric processes and their influences on the planet’s changing environment.

• News - General News

  

  News - General News

  Interviewing Mirko Albani

  ESA’s Heritage Space Programme Manager describes the goals of the programme, some of the challenges involved in preserving and improving 40 years of historical Earth observation data, and his passion for curating this long-term archive.

• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  Satellite data central to ocean monitoring

  Over 95% of Earth’s water is found in our oceans, and yet sadly, oceans are under stress from climate change and pollution. Monitoring our oceans is vital for Earth’s survival and satellites are the primary means of long-term and independent observation of our vast ocean bodies and their associated coastal zones.

• News - Operational News

  

  News - Operational News

  MERIS OADS – Service resumed

  The issue that has been affecting the Envisat MERIS data dissemination service is now solved; the MERIS OADS system is available again.

• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  10 years of Envisat data help to illuminate ocean processes

  A decade after Envisat beamed its final image to the planet, the pioneering ESA mission is continuing to foster improved understanding of Earth’s systems.

• Data - Data Description

  

  Data - Data Description

  Vision-1 full archive and tasking

  Vision-1 provides very high resolution optical products, with 87cm resolution in Panchromatic mode and 3.48m in Multispectral Mode. Products are...

• Mission - Third Party Missions

  

  Mission - Third Party Missions

  Vision-1

  Launched on 16 September 2018, Vision-1 offers orthorectified products with resolution up to 87 cm in panchromatic mode and 3.48 in multispectral mode as standard.

• News - Operational News

  

  News - Operational News

  MERIS OADS Unavailable 04 March 2022

  MERIS OADS system is currently unavailable. Investigation is under way to fix this issue as soon as possible.

• News - General News

  

  News - General News

  Introducing Mirko Albani

  In this short introduction, ESA's Heritage Missions Programme Manager describes what he likes most about ESA's long term archive of satellite mission data and his role in the programme.