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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 - 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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    Geographical Mode Mask

    The current operational Geographical Mode Mask v5.0 The current version of the geographical mode mask v5.0 has been in operation

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    ASAR Processor Releases

    August 2009 5.03L03 9 October 2009 5.04 17 September 2010 6.00 16 December 2011 6.02 30 April 2012 6.03 3 July 2015 (current

  • 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 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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    Products Information

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

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    Products Information

    For an optimal exploitation of the current SMOS L2 data set V620 consult the read-me-first notes available for V620 soil

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    About CRYO2ICE

    The measurements will also help map snow over the poles and advance our understanding of currents in polar oceans, with further

  • 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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    Ground Tracks

    CryoSat instruments and it is generated at the beginning of every orbital repetition cycle around two months before the current

  • 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 - Earth Explorers

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    CryoSat Objectives

    The density increase causes the surface waters to sink – in essence acting as a pump, driving cold, deep ocean currents from

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    ASAR Products Information

    Higher level products (Level 2) can then be derived from L1 products; however, this is currently only done with Wave mode

  • Mission - Earth Watch

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    SIRAL Overview

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

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    Envisat Objectives

          x     x Turbidity       x             Wave Characteristics x   x               Near Surface Wind x   x               Current

  • Mission - Earth Watch

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    Instrument Processing Facilities

    Level 1 Ice Products The current IPF1 installed at the Kiruna payload data segment for level-1 ice products is IPF1 vO2.3

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    CryoSat Overview

    redundant Solid-State Recorder, total capacity 256 Gbits   Ground Segment CryoSat ground segment The CryoSat ground segment is currently

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    Products Anomalies

    A reprocessing activity is currently on-going.