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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 - Heritage Missions

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    SAR (ERS) Processor Releases

    It should be noted that for SAR, each product ordered is processed directly from the raw data, using the current version

  • 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 - Heritage Missions

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    MIPAS Quality Control Reports

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

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    Products Availability L0

    The current list of gaps in the AATSR Level 0 dataset is available here.

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    RA (ERS)

    the RA provided information on significant wave height; surface wind speed; sea surface elevation, which relates to ocean currents

  • 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 (ERS)

    Processor Releases It should be noted that for SAR, each product ordered is processed directly from the raw data, using the current

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    ERS Radar Course 1

    Therefore, microwaves easily penetrate clouds, and images can be acquired independently of the current weather conditions

  • 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 - Heritage Missions

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    GOME Cal/Val

    that time was spent in the night side of Earth, when GOME carried out sequences of calibration measurements, i.e. dark current

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    Products Availability L0

    Last update on 29 March 2017 - Issue 1.3 Year Total orbits Products available Percentage of availability Products currently

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    AATSR Auxiliary Data

    The Fourth Reprocessing is the first to use the FAST processor (v2.0.5) and so there is currently no historical information

  • 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 - Heritage Missions

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    GOME Products Information

    Details on the datasets currently distributed are in the ERS-2 GOME Products Availability Table.

  • 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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    Wind Scatterometer (WS) Processor Releases

    The current processor software version for the operational ground segment is ASPS v 10.04.

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    Products Availability L1

    SCIAMACHY Level 1b products version 7.04-W Number of Orbits Year Planned Available Not recoverable* Failed or Missing Current

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    Wind Scatterometer (WS) Quality Control Reports

    The data includes instrument working modes, temperatures, currents and voltages of the transmitter and calibration chain,