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Document - Newsletter
Earth Online Newsletter 23 June 2023
This issue of the Earth Online Newsletter covers a selection of the latest news and events from ESA.
Document - Newsletter
Earth Online Newsletter 09 June 2023
This issue of the Earth Online Newsletter covers a selection of the latest news and events from ESA.
Mission - Third Party Missions
KOMPSAT-1
KOMPSAT-1 (Korean Multi-Purpose Satellite), also known as Arirang-1, was a South Korean Earth observation satellite which was launched on 21 December 1999. KOMPSAT-1 operated for eight years until satellite operations ceased on 30 December 2007 due to a loss of contact.
News - General News
International collaboration: Summarising ESA’s Third Party Missions
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world. Learn more about the Third Party Missions in this video.
News - General News
A summary of ESA Third Party Mission collections
A new summary is available, showcasing the ESA archives for Third Party Mission collections.
Document - General Reference
Heritage Space Programme interactive brochure
Learn about ESA's Heritage Space Programme in this interactive brochure.
Data - Data Description
KOMPSAT-1 Coverage of 50 European Cities
Available as a single coverage collection of data over 50 European Cities acquired by KOMPSAT-1’s Electro-Optical Camera (EOC) geolocated and orthorectified. The dataset is composed by PAN imagery at 6.6 m GSD, in GeoTIFF format and correspond to Level 1B processing.
News - Success Stories
New open-source Python library improves rapid mapping services
In emergency services, rapid response is paramount. ICube-SERTIT’s Rapid Mapping Service provides near real-time delivery of geo-information to help emergency services respond quickly to disasters such as flooding, fires and landslides. A new Python open-source library, called EOReader, speeds up this mapping response by enabling the easy opening of imagery from multiple satellite sensors, both optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR).
News - Infographics
Timeline to over 40 years of historical satellite missions
ESA's Heritage Space Programme preserves historical data from over 40 years of Earth observation missions.
News - Infographics
ESA Third Party Missions timeline
We've released a new timeline to illustrate the history of the ESA Third Party Missions.
News - Success Stories
A stroll through Heritage Missions
At ESA's Earth Observation centre—ESRIN—in Frascati, Italy, there is a place where one can walk back in time, to better understand the history and importance of Heritage Missions and their data.
Tools - Analysis
ESA PDGS Jupyter Notebook
A series of Jupyter Notebooks are available, in order to understand how to exploit the API that provides the data access service for different types of datasets included in the ESA PDGS datacube.
Data - Data Description
TropForest - ALOS, GEOSAT-1 & KOMPSAT-2 optical coverages over tropical forests
The objective of the ESA TropForest project was to create a harmonised geo-database of ready-to-use satellite imagery to support 2010 global forest assessment performed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Assessments for year 2010 were essential for building realistic deforestation benchmark rates at global to regional levels. To reach this objective, the project aimed to create a harmonised ortho-rectified/pre-processed imagery geo-database based on satellite data acquisitions (ALOS AVNIR-2, GEOSAT-1 SLIM6, KOMPSAT-2 MSC) performed during year 2009 and 2010, for the Tropical Latin America (excluding Mexico) and for the Tropical South and Southeast Asia (excluding China), resulting in 1971 sites located at 1° x 1° geographical lat/long intersections. The project finally delivered 1866 sites (94.7% of target) due to cloud coverages too high for missing sites. Spatial coverage: Check the spatial coverage of the collection on a map available on the Third Party Missions Dissemination Service.
Data - Data Description
KOMPSAT-2 ESA archive
KOMPSAT-2 ESA archive collection is composed by bundle (Panchromatic and Multispectral separated images) products from the Multi-Spectral Camera (MSC) onboard KOMPSAT-2 acquired from 2007 to 2014: 1m resolution for PAN, 4m resolution for MS. Spectral Bands: Spectral Band Application PAN 500 – 900 nm Locate, identify and measure surface features and objects primarily by their physical appearance MS1 Blue 450 – 520 nm Mapping shallow water, differentiating soil from vegetation MS2 Green 520 - 600 nm Differentiating vegetation by health MS3 Red 630 - 690 nm Differentiating vegetation by species MS4 NIR 760 – 900 nm Mapping vegetation, mapping vegetation vigor/health, Differentiating vegetation by species Spatial coverage: Check the spatial coverage of the collection on a map available on the Third Party Missions Dissemination Service.
Document - Data Access Information
Access-to-ESA-Earth-Observation-Data-Quick Guide.pdf
How to Access ESA Earth Observation Data - a Quick Guide
Mission - Third Party Missions
KOMPSAT-2
KOMPSAT-2 (Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite-2), also known as Arirang-2, was developed by KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) to continue the observation programme of the KOMPSAT-1 mission.