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Mission - Earth Explorers
GOCE
Explorer (GOCE) mission mapped Earth's geoid very accurately, opening a window into Earth's interior structure as well as the currents
Mission - Earth Explorers
GOCE Objectives
Thanks to this current, the coastal waters of Europe are 4°C warmer than waters at equivalent latitudes in the north Pacific
Document - General Reference
The Earth Observation Handbook, 2010 Update - Key Tables
This is the 2010 update of the CEOS Earth Observation Handbook. You can browse the live database at http://database.eohandbook.com/ or download the printable PDF of key tables based on the 2010 database contents for a handy reference.
Document - General Reference
Meteosat-Second-Generation-New-Horizons-for-Weather-and-Climate.pdf
This brochure gives a general overview on the mission and its application.
Document - General Reference
The MSG System - consisting of a Space Segment and a Ground Segment, designed to provide data, based on a series of three satellites called MSG-1, -2 and -3
This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 111.
Document - General Reference
The In-Orbit Commissioning of MSG-1
This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 114.
Document - Proceedings
2nd-MSG-RAO-Workshop.pdf
Proceedings of the 2nd MSG RAO Workshop, held on 9-10 September 2004 in Salzburg, Austria
Mission - Earth Explorers
EGG
This opened a window into Earth's interior structure, as well as the currents circulating within the depths of its oceans
News - Thematic area articles
Satellite data central to ocean monitoring
microwave monitoring instruments, optical imagers, and infrared radiometers, which can map ocean variables related to ocean currents
Document - General Reference
The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Atmospheric Dynamics MIssion
This report for assessment addresses the Atmospheric Dynamics mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.
Mission - Earth Explorers
SSTI ANTEX Data
data were generated from 154 days in 2009 GOCE SSTI-B PCVs data were generated from the available data in 2010-2012 The current
Document - General Reference
Looking-after-Water-in-Africa-ESAs-TIGER-Initiative.pdf
This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 117 anddescribes the TIGER initiative, a direct follow up of ESA'sengagement in the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on SustainableDevelopment: the project is aimed to offer to developing countriestechnology to monitor from space the water resources.
Document - General Reference
The four Candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions - Atmospheric Dynamics Mission
This report describes the Atmospheric Dynamics Mission, one of the four Candidate Earth Explorers in 1999.
Document - Proceedings
Dragon Programme Mid-Term Results
Proceedings of the 2005 Dragon Symposium held on 27 June - 1 July 2005 in Santorini, Greece.
Document - General Reference
The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Topography Mission
This report for assessment addresses the Topography mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.
Document - Technical Note
WALES - Water Vapour Lidar Experiment in Space
This report describes the WALES mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.
Document - General Reference
The four Candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions - Earth Radiation Mission
This report describes the Earth Radiation Mission, one of the four Candidate Earth Explorers in 1999.
Document - Proceedings
EO-Summer-School-6-ESA-explorer-mission-GOCE-earth-gravity-from-space.pdf
This presentation from ESA's EO Summer School 6 presents the ESA explorer mission GOCE earth gravity from space
Document - General Reference
PREMIER-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-atmospheric-composition.pdf
The objective of the PREMIER mission is to quantify the processes controlling global atmospheric composition in the mid/upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (5-25 km height range), which is a region of particular importance for climate change.
Document - General Reference
Meteosat-Second-Generation.pdf
This flyer summarises in short the aims, applications and technology of the MSG mission.