Event - Meeting

VH-RODA and CEOS SAR workshop

The workshop provided an open forum for the presentation and discussion of current status and future developments related

Activity - Quality

EDAP

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

Activity - Quality

SLAP

Currently, in excess of 701,000 Level 1 TM and 84,000 Level 1 ETM+ products have been reprocessed and released under the

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

Overview of an Intelligent Sensorweb for Integrated Earth Sensing Project

Document - General Reference

BIOMASS-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-forest-biomass.pdf

The objective of the BIOMASS Mission is to determine the global distribution of forest biomass by reducing the uncertainty in the calculation of carbon stock and fluxes associated with the terrestrial biosphere.

Document - Product Readme Note

Fine-Resolution-Air-Quality-Monitoring-from-a-Small-Satellite-CHRIS-PROBA.pdf

This paper was published in "Sensors" and demonstrates the ability of the European Space Agency's small satellite sensor CHRIS/PROBA to provide reliable AOT estimates at a spatially detailed level over Hong Kong, using a modified version of the dense dark vegetation (DDV) algorithm devised for MODIS.

Document - General Reference

Autonomy-in-action-Ten-years-of-Proba-1.pdf

This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr.148.

Document - General Reference

On-the-Potential-of-CHRIS-PROBA-for-Estimating-Vegetation-Canopy-Properties-from-Space.pdf

On the Potential of CHRIS/PROBA for Estimating Vegetation Canopy Properties from Space.

Document - Technical Note

Note on CHRIS Acquisition Procedure and Image Geometry

The aim of this document is to clarify the acquisition procedure CHRIS on-board the PROBA satellite. It provides a detailed description of the acquisition procedure and summarises the implications for the geometrical properties of the CHRIS images.

Document - General Reference

Correction-of-systematic-spatial-noise-in-push-broom-hyperspectral-sensors.pdf

We present a new technique that faces the problem of removing the spatiallycoherent noise known as vertical striping, usually found in images acquired by push-broom sensors.

News - Success Stories

Heritage data trains neural networks to detect urban sprawl

Since they’ve been trained identically, they can help monitor both current and past urban changes.  

Document - Product Document

Leaf-area-index-from-CHRIS-satellite-data-and-applications-in-plant-yield-estimation.pdf

This paper focuses on the optical remote sensing aspects of the ISIES project.

Document - General Reference

Big-year-for-small-satellite-ESAs-second-in-orbit-technology-demonstration-mission-Proba-2.pdf

This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr.144.

Document - Technical Note

A-comparison-of-superresolution-reconstruction-methods-for-multiangle-CHRIS-Proba-images.pdf

This paper presents the results of three superresolution methods applied to multiangular CHRIS/Proba data: three methods, namely non-uniform interpolation and de-convolution, iterative back-projection, and total variation are examined.

Mission - Third Party Missions

Multi Spectral Scanner (MSS) Processor Releases

GCP displacement B TM radiometric calibration Update to radiometric calibration strategy for TM reflective bands (Dark Current

Mission - Third Party Missions

Thematic Mapper (TM) Processor Releases

GCP displacement B TM radiometric calibration Update to radiometric calibration strategy for TM reflective bands (Dark Current

News - Thematic area articles

Space helps monitor Earth’s changing biosphere

Ocean chlorophyll concentrations can change when ocean currents shift, or sea temperature rises - all impacts of climate

Mission - Third Party Missions

CHRIS Overview

covering the short-wave IR spectral band (SWIR, typically out to 2400 nm), in addition to the visible/near-IR (VNIR) band current