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MISSIONS

Explore the European Space Agency's Earth Observation satellite missions. Learn all about ESA's dedicated Earth Explorers or collaborations with other agencies through the Third Party Missions programme.

  • Mission - Third Party Missions

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    WorldView Series

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

  • Mission - Third Party Missions

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    Vision-1

    Stereo Mode: currently under development, provides two co-incident image scenes acquired at opposing pitch angles of ±30°

  • Mission - Earth Watch

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    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

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    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

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    Vegetation (VGT) Cal/Val

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

  • Mission - Earth Watch

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    TIRS Product Anomalies

    artifacts, how they are addressed and corrected, and provides up-to-date information and details regarding known issues and current

  • Mission - Third Party Missions

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    Thematic Mapper (TM) Processor Releases

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

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    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

  • Mission - Third Party Missions

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    Spire Overview

    It currently commercialises its platform on a "Space-as-a-Service" offering with aerospace and defence customers.

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    Special Datasets Overview

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

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    SMOS product availability

    + NIR + Long     LO + FTT     LO + Electrical Stability     LO + NIR + Long + FTT     LO + Short     LO + Long + Short Current

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    SMOS Overview

    Mission Background The SMOS mission is a direct response to the current lack of global observations of soil moisture and

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    SMOS Objectives

    SMOS Science The SMOS mission is a direct response to the current lack of global observations of soil moisture and ocean

  • Mission - Earth Watch

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    SIRAL Overview

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

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    SIRAL

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

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    Seasat Objectives

    wealth of information on diverse ocean phenomena such as sea-surface winds and temperatures, surface and internal waves, currents

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    Seasat

    The instrument had the objectives of the determination of sea surface profiles, currents, wind speeds and wave heights.

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    SCIAMACHY Quality Control Reports

    Maps are currently available only for a limited part of the mission. Read More

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    SCIAMACHY Auxiliary Data

    In these cases, default values for the calibration parameters (Leakage current, Pixel-to-Pixel Gain and Etalon, Spectral

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    SAR (JERS-1) Products Information

    main differences between the L1 CEOS products that were provided by JAXA (but are no longer available to users) and the current