News - Data Release news

SMOS L2 Sea Surface Salinity products documentation updates

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

News - General News

Updated SMOS documentation available

Updated versions of several SMOS data documents are now available.

Tools - Apps

Heritage Missions app for iOS

Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.

Tools - Apps

Heritage Missions app for Android

Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.

Document - Product Handbook

Envisat-SCIAMACHY-product-handbook.pdf

The handbook version 1.0 is based in parts on the SCIAMACHY book (Gottwald etal. 2006) and has been updated to cover the Level 1 version 8, and the Level 2 version 6 SCIAMACHY operational processors.

Document - General Reference

The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission - SMOS

This document outlines the SMOS mission objectives and the derived scientific mission requirements.

Document - Product Cal/Val Plan/Report

1st-Final-report-Long-term-validation-of-SCIAMACHY-Data.pdf

This document describes the work packages, and focusses on the newer results obtained in the second half of phase A of ESRIN contract No. 18809/05-I-LG. This work is focussing on the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard Envisat.

Instrument - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers

MWR (ERS)

The microwave radiometer (MWR) instrument on board the ERS-1 and ERS-2 missions provided measurements of the integrated atmospheric water vapour column and cloud liquid water content.

Document - Technical Note

MIPAS Level 1B Auxiliary Data File (ADF) Technical Note

Document - Technical Note

Outcome of the Proba-V Cloud Detection Round Robin Workshop

Mission - Earth Explorers

SMOS

The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is dedicated to making global observations of soil moisture over land and salinity over oceans.

Mission - Third Party Missions

PROBA-1

PROBA-1 is a technology demonstration satellite that later became an operational Earth observation mission.

Mission - Heritage Missions

Envisat

Envisat was ESA's successor to ERS. Envisat carried ten instruments aboard for a wide range of Earth observing fields. The mission was operational from 2002 to 2012.

Mission - Heritage Missions

ERS

The ERS programme was composed of two missions, ERS-1 and ERS-2, which together observed the Earth for 20 years, from 1991 to 2011.

Campaign

DOMEX-1

The purpose of the DOMEX experiment was to acquire the first combined, in-situ microwave emission measurements using C- and L-band radiometers.

Instrument - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers

Thematic Mapper (TM)

The Thematic Mapper (TM) was a multispectral scanning radiometer on board Landsat-4 and Landsat-5.

Mission - Third Party Missions

Landsat-4 and Landsat-5

The Landsat-4 and Landsat-5 missions continued the Landsat programme's goal of providing moderate-resolution optical remote sensing for land, coastal areas and shallow waters.

Instrument - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers

Multi Spectral Scanner (MSS)

The Multi Spectral Scanner (MSS) instrument was carried aboard the Landsat-1 to 5 satellites.

Mission - Third Party Missions

NOAA POES

NOAA's AVHRR sensor is carried on the POES mission, a constellation of polar orbiting weather satellites.

Mission - Third Party Missions

Landsat-1 to Landsat-3

The Landsat-1 to 3 satellites were the first in the United States' Landsat programme, dedicated to monitoring the Earth's land mass.