News - Events and Proceedings

Φ-Week Triumphs

Opening Session Title: Φ-Week's Opening Session Description: During the fourth edition of ESA’s Φ -Week, Josef Aschbacher, current

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

Mission - Earth Watch

Vegetation (VGT) Quality Control Reports

months and provide information about: Absolute and inter-band radiometric accuracy Multi-temporal radiometric accuracy Dark current

Mission - Earth Watch

Vegetation (VGT) Processor Releases

The current processor software version, used for a full reprocessing of the PROBA-V archive and also for the operational

Mission - Earth Watch

Vegetation (VGT) Cal/Val

Greenland (only during June/July): during one week daily acquisitions in uncompressed mode Weekly Calibration acquisition Dark current

News - Thematic area articles

Tracking the world’s forests from space

Deforestation in Brazil Scientist’s understanding of the health of the world’s forests is being further improved through current

News - Success Stories

TPM data help advance plastic litter detection from space

detection and tracking of large marine litter based on high-resolution remote sensing time series, machine learning, and ocean current

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 - Technical Note

The Sentinel-3 mission

Document - Technical Note

Technical Note on Quality Assessment for Landsat 1-7

Technical Note on Quality Assessment for Landsat 1-7

Document - General Reference

surface-reflectance-aerosol-properties-proba-v-observations-abstract.pdf

Joint Retrieval Of Surface Reflectance And Aerosol Properties: Application To Proba-V Observations

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

News - Thematic area articles

Space data support Earth’s ecosystems

Currently, it is not possible to measure photosynthetic activity from space, but the forthcoming FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX

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

News - Thematic area articles

Satellites reveal changes to Earth’s icy zones

By combining information collected by current and previous missions, researchers can estimate how the cryosphere is evolving

News - General News

Quality Reports Advanced Search Portal takes off

The system by default will show the reports for the current month, but the user can easily choose a different type of visualisation

Document - General Reference

PV-LAC-COAST-VR-v2.0.pdf

This is the second version (V2) of the Validation Report for the PV-LAC coastal activities.

Document - General Reference

PV-LAC-COAST-SR-v1.1.pdf

In the frame of the PV-LAC project a prototype code has been developed, tested and validated for the atmospheric correction (A/C) and turbidity retrieval of PROBA-V data over turbid coastal areas.

Document - General Reference

PV-LAC-COAST-RBD-v1-1.pdf

The aim of this document is to make a critical review of the algorithms for TSM retrieval and atmospheric correction in turbid coastal waters, to identify the most suitable method (TSM and A/C method) for PROBA-V, to define the validation approach (including identification of the validation data and test sites) and to assess the utility and benefits of 100m coastal products through interaction with the user community.