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Document - Data Access Information
ESA-archive-third-party-mission-collections.pdf
Discover the ESA archive data collections offered for the Third Party Missions programme.
Tools - Catalogues
FedEO
FedEO is a data catalogue that provides a unique entry point to a number of scientific catalogues and services for, but not limited to, European and Canadian missions.
Tools - Catalogues
EO CAT
EO CAT is a data catalogue, offering a Next Generation Earth Observation system designed to manage end-user Earth Observation services.
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.
Document - General Reference
Heritage Missions brochure
This brochure describes ESA's Heritage Space Programme and includes infographics describing some of the missions in the programme.
News - Data Release news
IRS-1C/1D European coverages dataset available to users
Three European coverages (including Turkey) made by the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS-1C and IRS-1D from the PAN sensor are now available.
News - General News
ESA and GAF AG continue to offer free-of-charge access to Third Party Mission data
In January 2021, ESA and GAF AG extended their agreement under ESA’s Third Party Missions programme regarding the provision of IRS data and DSMs until the end of 2021.
Document - Technical Note
Indian-Data-Terms-Of-Applicability.pdf
This document contains the Terms of Applicability and the Terms and Conditions for accessing the third party mission data from Indian data sources.
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.
News - General News
ESA's new DataCube service is now available
ESA is pleased to announce the deployment of a new service, called ESA PDGS-DataCube, enabling multi-temporal and pixel-based access to a subset of the data available in the European Space Agency dissemination services.
News - General News
ESA’s Earth Observation Catalogue and its services
EO-CAT is the EO Catalogue tool allowing users to search ESA and Third Party Mission collections.
Document - User Guide
TPM-L-OADS-dissemination-service-User-Manual.pdf
This guide describes the Third Party Missions Dissemination System.
Data - Data Description
IRS-1C/1D European coverage
IRS-1C/1D dataset is composed of products generated by the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) Satellites 1C/1D PAN sensor. The products, acquired from 1996 to 2004 over Europe, are radiometrically and ortho corrected level 1 black and white images at 5 metre resolution and cover an area of up to 70 x 70 km. Sensor Type Resolution (m) Coverage (km x km) System or radiometrically corrected Ortho corrected (DN) Acquisition in Neustrelitz PAN Panchromatic 5 70 x 70 X X 1996 - 2004 IRS-1C/1D PAN data coverage of Europe acquired between 1996 to 1998. Copyright: 2015 GAF AG IRS-1C/1D PAN data coverage of Europe acquired between 1999 to 2001. Copyright: 2015 GAF AG IRS-1C/1D PAN data coverage of Europe acquired between 2002 to 2004. Copyright: 2015 GAF AG Spatial coverage: Check the spatial coverage of the collection on a map available on the Third Party Missions Dissemination Service.
Data - Data Description
IRS-1C/1D Full archive
The following products are available: PAN: Panchromatic, resolution 5 m, Coverage 70 km x 70 km, radiometrically and ortho (DN) corrected, LISS-III: Multi-spectral, resolution 25 m, Coverage 140 km x 140 km, radiometrically and ortho (DN) corrected (ortho delivered without Band 5) WiFS: Multi-spectral, resolution 180 m, Coverage 800 km x 800 km, radiometrically and ortho (DN) corrected. Sensor Type Resolution (m) Coverage (km x km) System or radiometrically corrected Ortho corrected (DN) Global archive PAN Panchromatic 5 70 x 70 X X 1996 – 2007 (IRS-1C) 1998 – 2009 (IRS-1D) LISS-III Multi-spectral 25 140 x 140 X X (without band 5) WiFS Multi-spectral 180 800 km x 800 km X X Note: Whether system corrected or radiometrically corrected products are available depends on sensor and processing centre For PAN and LISS-III ortho corrected: If unavailable, user has to supply ground control information and DEM in suitable quality For WiFS ortho corrected: service based on in house available ground control information and DEM.
Mission - Third Party Missions
IRS-1C and IRS-1D
The Indian Remote Sensing satellites IRS-1C and IRS-1D were identical Earth-imaging satellites operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation.
News - Data Release news
ESA will continue to provide ocean colour data from Indian mission
To further promote research and applications, ESA and a leading geo-information company agree to continue data acquisition from OceanSat-2.
Mission - Heritage Missions
IRS-1D
IRS-1D was part of the IRS (Indian Remote Sensing) satellites, a large family of Earth observation satellites operated by ISRO.