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• 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 - Maintenance News

  

  News - Maintenance News

  ESA Third Party Missions collections maintenance 15 November 2021

  A planned software maintenance will affect ESA's Third Party Missions data dissemination service next Monday 15 November 2021 from 07:30 to 08:30 UTC

• News - General News

  

  News - General News

  Third Party Missions infographic

  ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of almost 50 satellite missions, which are owned by organisations around the world. ESA has agreements with these organisations to acquire, process, and distribute data from their missions

• News - General News

  

  News - General News

  ESA Third Party Missions timeline

  We've released a new timeline to illustrate the history of the ESA Third Party Missions.

• Data - Data Description

  

  Data - Data Description

  SciSat-1: ACE-FTS and MAESTRO

  SCISAT-1 data aim at monitoring and analysing the chemical processes that control the distribution of ozone in the upper troposphere and stratos...

• Document - Technical Note

  

  Document - Technical Note

  ACE-FTS Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment - File format description for ACE-FTS level 2 data version 2-2 ASCII format

  The user is strongly encouraged to read the README files (produced by Chris Boone for each version of the ACE-FTS retrievals and reproduced in this document) and the retrievals description paper (C. D. Boone et al., "Retrievals for the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer", Appl. Opt., 44(33) 7218-7231 (2005) which is available from http://www.ace.uwaterloo.ca/data) for more information on the ACE-FTS retrievals.

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  The International Charter- Space and Major Disasters

  The Charter is an important step forward in linking the needs of disaster and relief organisations with space technology solutions to help mitigate the effects of disaster on human life, property and the environment.

• Document - Product Specifications

  

  Document - Product Specifications

  ACE-FTS Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment - File format description for ACE-Imager level 2 data ---

  A reference document containing information regarding Scisat/ACE's instrument.

• Document - Product Specifications

  

  Document - Product Specifications

  ACE-FTS Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment- File format description for ACE-FTS level 2 data ---

  A reference document containing information regarding Scisat/ACE's FTS instrument.

• Mission - Third Party Missions

  

  Mission - Third Party Missions

  SCISAT-1

  SCISAT-1 is designed to make observations of Earth's atmosphere and its main instruments are an optical Fourier transform infrared spectrometer and an ultraviolet spectrophotometer.

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  The Earth Observation Handbook, 2010 Update - Key Tables

  This is the 2010 update of the CEOS Earth Observation Handbook. You can browse the live database at http://database.eohandbook.com/ or download the printable PDF of key tables based on the 2010 database contents for a handy reference.

• Document - Product Readme Note

  

  Document - Product Readme Note

  Atmospheric-Chemistry-Experiment-ACE-Mission-Overview.pdf

  This paper was published in the GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, Vol.32 (L15S01, doi:10.1029/2005GL022386, 2005) and presents an overview of the Canadian mission SCISAT-1 (also known as the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment ACE) and some of its first scientific results.

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  BIOMASS-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-forest-biomass.pdf

  The objective of the BIOMASS Mission is to determine the global distribution of forest biomass by reducing the uncertainty in the calculation of carbon stock and fluxes associated with the terrestrial biosphere.

• Document - User Guide

  

  Document - User Guide

  Third Party Missions, Cat-1 Data Availability

  This brochure gives a quick overview on the availability of the Third Party Missions IRS-P3, JERS-1, NIMBUS, Proba, Landsat, KOMPSAT-1, SCISAT-1, Terra/Aqua, NOAA, QSCAT, OrbView, SPOT-1,-2,-3,-4, ALOS.

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  PREMIER-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-atmospheric-composition.pdf

  The objective of the PREMIER mission is to quantify the processes controlling global atmospheric composition in the mid/upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (5-25 km height range), which is a region of particular importance for climate change.

• Document - Proceedings

  

  Document - Proceedings

  Advances-in-Atmospheric-Science-and-Applications.pdf

  Proceedings in Advances in Atmospheric Science and Applications held in 18-22 June 2012 in Bruges, Belgium.

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  CoReH2O-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-snow-and-ice.pdf

  This report describes the CoReH2O (Cold Regions Hydrology high-resolution Observatory) mission, which was selected for feasibility study in the third cycle of Earth Explorers.

• Document - Conference Presentation - Poster

  

  Document - Conference Presentation - Poster

  Third-Party-Missions-brochure.pdf

  This is a brochure containing info on Third Party Missions

• Document - Product Readme Note

  

  Document - Product Readme Note

  Retrievals-for-the-Atmospheric-Chemistry-Experiment-Fourier-Transform-Spectrometer.pdf

  This paper describes the approach developed for the retrieval of atmospheric temperature and pressure from the troposphere to the lower thermosphere as well as the strategy for retrievals of volume-mixing ratio profiles of atmospheric species.