News - Success Stories

WorldView-3 satellite maps methane plumes at very high spatial resolution

WorldView-3's very high resolution SWIR images are thus an important complement to the current set of satellite missions

Mission - Third Party Missions

WorldView Series

Owned by Maxar, the first three satellites in the series are currently operational, and they have been supplying imagery

Document - General Reference

WATS - Water Vapour and Temperature in the Troposphere and Stratosphere.pdf

This report describes the WATS mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.

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 - Software Verification Plan/Report

User Toolbox Requirements Document - GOCE User Toolbox Specifications (GUTS)

Deliverable: WP2000: This document provides user requirement for the GOCE User Toolbox, designed around the GOCE mission.

Document - General Reference

Towards the Definitive Space Gravity Mission

This article appeared on the International WOCE Newsletter, issue nr. 33 published on December 1998.

Document - General Reference

Towards More Efficient Use of Radar-Altimeter Data

Twenty years ago, experimental altimeters on NASA's Skylab and Geos-3 were already demonstrating the potential of such instrumentation. This led in turn to the development and launch by NASA in July 1978 of the Seasat oceanographic satellite mission. Both Geos-3 and Seasat were very successful in their pioneering missions, but were limited somewhat by poor coverage in the case of Geos-3 and an abnormally short mission duration in Seasat's case.

Document - Software Verification Plan/Report

Toolbox Functionality and Algorithm Specification Document - GOCE User Toolbox Specifications (GUTS)

Deliverable: WP3000: This report is the output from WP3000 of the GOCE User Toolbox Specification. The study will select the best (in terms of accuracy and computational demands) algorithms to compute the variables listed in the user requirement document [1]. This document will form the basis for the system specification work performed in WP4000 and the prototype and tutorials to be generated in WP5000, all available in this library.

Document - General Reference

Third Party Missions Brochure

This brochure summarises ESA's Third Party Missions programme, providing a timeline and examples of content related to some of the missions.

Document - Proceedings

Third ESA International Conference on Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems

The proceedings from the Third ESA International Conference on Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems, which took place at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, from 26 to 29 November 1996, are presented here.

Document - General Reference

The-Changing-Earth-New-Scientific-Challenges-for-ESAs-Living-Planet-Programme.pdf

This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 129.

Document - General Reference

The-CEOS-Earth-Observation-Handbook-2008.pdf

This report presents the main capabilities of satellite Earth observations, their applications, and a systematic overview of present and planned Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) agency Earth observation satellite missions and their instruments. It also explores society's increasing need for information on our planet. This edition has a particular focus on climate change.

Document - General Reference

The TIGER Initiative - Looking for Water in Africa 2009-2012 Report

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 - General Reference

The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Precipitation Mission

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

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 - General Reference

The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Land-Surface Processes and Interactions Mission

This report for assessment addresses the Land-Surface Processes and Interactions mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.

Document - General Reference

The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Mission

This report for assessment addresses the Earth Explorer Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation (GOCE) mission at the time when it was selected with other 9 Earth Explorer missions as potential candidate for Phase A study.

Document - General Reference

The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Earth Radiation Mission

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

Document - General Reference

The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Atmospheric Profiling Mission

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