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  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 - Maintenance News

  

  News - Maintenance News

  ESA data dissemination maintenance – 20 June 2022

  A planned software maintenance activity will affect some of ESA's data dissemination services on 20 June 2022.

• 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

  QA4SM Evolution in FRM4SM presented at sixth Soil Moisture Validation Workshop

  The use and distribution of EO Soil Moisture (SM) data calls for rigorous, automated quality assessment procedures.

• News - Data Release news

  

  News - Data Release news

  SMOS reprocessed Sea Surface Wind Speed dataset is now available

  The entire SMOS L1B archive has been reprocessed with the latest version of the Sea Surface Wind Speed processor V300 which was deployed into the SMOS wind near real time service in August 2021.

• 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 - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  ESA facilitates access to greenhouse gas data

  Canadian company GHGSat Inc., which offers high-resolution remote sensing of greenhouse gas emissions, air quality gas, and other trace gas emissions from any point sources in the world—is now an ESA Third Party Mission.

• News - General News

  

  News - General News

  GHGsat infographic

  Find out more about the GHGsat mission in our new infographic.

• 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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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 - Data Release news

  

  News - Data Release news

  SMOS L2 Sea Surface Salinity products documentation updates

  SMOS L2 Sea Surface Salinity product validation report is now available.