News - Success Stories

CryoSat-2 Data Used to Measure Ionospheric Currents

Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites can be used to diagnose weak low-/mid-latitude ionospheric currents

Document - General Reference

Earth-Explorers-Satellites-to-understand-our-changing-Earth.pdf

This eight-page brochure provides an overview of the Earth Explorers currently in orbit and those under development.

News - Success Stories

CRYO2ICE over Antarctica: revealing further insight on changing ice

The CryoSat-2 satellite is currently being aligned with ICESat-2 over Antarctica, unlocking fresh possibilities in the wealth

News - Success Stories

CryoTEMPO-EOLIS Products Now Available for Iceland, Svalbard, and the Canadian Arctic

Land-ice monitoring via Earth Observation methods in general, and altimetry in particular, are essential for tracking the current

Activity - Quality

EDAP

The following missions are currently being considered as part of the Automatic Identification System (AIS) and Radio Frequency

Event - Workshop

SEASAR 2012

Aouf 14:00 - 14:20 Towards consistent inversion of wind, waves and surface current from SAR Bertrand Chapron (IFREMER, France

Activity - Instrument characterisation and algorithm studies

ESA satellites and instruments calibration landing page

Data Outages: Information currently not available online.  

News - General News

ESA's excellent Earth Explorer missions extended to 2025

Acting like the spinning conductor in a bicycle dynamo, it generates electrical currents and thus the continuously changing

News - Operational News

Delay in the availability of CryoSat Products

There is currently an ongoing technical issue at the CryoSat Payload Data Ground Segment (PDGS).

Document - Product Document

cryosat-magnetic-data-calibration-method.pdf

Description of CryoSat magnetometer data calibration and data description

Document - General Reference

SAR Ocean Feature Catalogue

Mission - Earth Explorers

Geographical Mode Mask

The current operational Geographical Mode Mask v5.0 The current version of the geographical mode mask v5.0 has been in operation

Document - General Reference

The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Magnetometry Mission

This report for assessment addresses the Magnetometry mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.

Document - Product Document

ALOS-PALSAR-Quality-Disclaimer.pdf

This document provides a quality disclaimer for an ALOS PALSAR IPF failure.

Mission - Heritage Missions

PALSAR

A small percentage of ALOS-1 PALSAR products processed by the current installed ESA IPF are affected by a known quality issue

News - Operational News

CryoSat new Geographical Mask in support to the French/US SWOT mission

With respect to the previous version, the new SWOT areas are reported in yellow in the figure (overlapping the current 3.9

Event - Training

EO Summer School 3

In line with observations it shows anti-cyclonically rotating surface currents and cyclonically rotating bottom currents.

Mission - Heritage Missions

PALSAR Processor Releases

The current ALOS-1 PALSAR IPF integrated within the ESA On-The-Fly system is v4.16p9, installed on 24 January 2017.

News - Data Release news

CryoSat new Ice NRT products now available

The new Ice NRT products replace the current products, and can be downloaded from the SIR_NRT folder on the CryoSat Science

Document - General Reference

New-possibilities-for-science-ESAs-operational-Sentinel-missions.pdf

This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr. 140.