News - Thematic area articles

Transforming space data into climate action

By combining high-quality data from both current and previous missions, scientists are improving their understanding of the

Document - General Reference

The first of ESA's first Opportunity Missions- CryoSat

This article was published in the Earth Observation Quarterly nr 63 which appeared in 1999 and describes the CryoSat Mission. In the same issue of EOQ there are various articles giving a general presentation of the ESA Living Planet programme.

Document - General Reference

The European Space Agency's Earth Explorer Mission CryoSat- Measuring Variability in the Cryosphere

This paper provides an overview of the mission and the measurement characteristics of the new SIRAL instrument: examples of data acquired on recent preparatory campaigns are presented, preparatory plans for calibration and validation of CryoSat data are also described.

Document - General Reference

The CryoSat System - the satellite and its radar altimeter

This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 122 and describes the elements of the satellite that are to be launched into space.

Document - General Reference

The CryoSat Data Products- their generation, in-situ validation and applications

This article was published in the ESA Bulletin Nr. 122 and describes those parts of the overall system that will not be launched into space

News - Data Release news

Systematic swath elevation and monthly DEMs over the Greenland Ice Sheet margin from CryoSat

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

News - Data Release news

Systematic swath elevation and monthly DEMs over the Antarctica Ice Sheet margin from CryoSat 2

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

News - General News

Stunning new features for ESA and NASA altimetry portal cs2eo.org

Currently available polygons include a selection of glacier outlines from the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) Version 6,

Mission - Earth Explorers

Special Datasets Overview

CryoSat Antarctic Digital Elevation Model - Download the current CryoSat product Antarctic DEM.

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

Mission - Earth Watch

SIRAL Overview

It is also operated over some geostrophic ocean currents and major hydrological basins.

Mission - Earth Explorers

SIRAL

Access is provided to all CryoSat systematic data acquired according to the current geographical mode mask.

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 - 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

News - Success Stories

Retrieving Snow Depth Over Sea Ice Using Dual-Frequency Altimetric Measurements

the launch of SARAL in 2013, have been shown to provide a better climatological solution than the snow depth climatology currently

Document - General Reference

Reports from Mission Selection - The Four Candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions

The Living Planet Programme document (ESA SP-1227, available on this Library) describes the plans for the Agency's new strategy for Earth Observation in the post-2000 time frame. Out of the nine Earth Explorer Core Missions identified in 1996, four Core Missions were selected for Phase-A studies, which began in 1998, namely: the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Mission; the Land-Surface Processes and Interaction Mission; the Earth Radiation Mission; and the Atmospheric Dynamics Mission. The 4 volumes forming this Special Publication describe in detail each single mission.

Mission - Earth Explorers

Products Information

here, these are intended for the purpose of becoming familiar with the format of the CryoSat Science Products from the current

Document - Technical Note

ngEO tailoring for Landsat

Document - Technical Note

ngEO Browse Report File Generic Interface (BRGICD)

Statistical description of the ngEO Generic Browse Report File.

News - Data Release news

New version of the SMOS-CryoSat level 4 sea ice thickness product is now available

The current version 205 replaces the previous baseline version 204.