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Discover the latest news on the European Space Agency's Earth Observation activities. Learn all about new data availability and how ESA's missions are performing.
News - Thematic area articles
29 Sept 2022How satellite data help to shape society
Title: Current drought situation in Ebro basin Description: The SMOS soil-moisture-based drought monitor is updated monthly
News - General News
21 Mar 2023ESA's excellent Earth Explorer missions extended to 2025
Acting like the spinning conductor in a bicycle dynamo, it generates electrical currents and thus the continuously changing
News - Data Release news
22 July 2021New reprocessing of datasets celebrates 30 years of ERS
For each surface, the experts will use our current knowledge acquired over 30 years of experience, to improve the ERS altimetric
News - Data Release news
30 Jan 2023New version of the SMOS-CryoSat level 4 sea ice thickness product is now available
The current version 205 replaces the previous baseline version 204.
News - Thematic area articles
31 Mar 2022Satellite 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
6 Mar 2020Heritage data still widely used today
Current satellite missions collect data with high frequency, with some able to systematically revisit the same location in
News - Spotlight on EO community
22 Sept 2022Meet a young researcher who studies the behaviour of volcanoes worldwide
to apply for a scholarship offered by the Chilean government to pursue PhD studies abroad, and eventually, led me to the current
News - Success Stories
27 Sept 2022Heritage data trains neural networks to detect urban sprawl
Since they’ve been trained identically, they can help monitor both current and past urban changes.
News - Success Stories
7 Feb 2024Trailblazing ERS-2 mission enables climate change applications
Varied elevations of Bachu in western China InSAR is currently one of the most accurate methods to generate digital elevation
News - Thematic area articles
30 June 2022Transforming space data into climate action
By combining high-quality data from both current and previous missions, scientists are improving their understanding of the
News - General News
8 Apr 2024ESA's improved Earth system data records: what is in store for the future?
The current focus is on spectral windows in the Ultraviolet-Visible-Near Infrared regions for the retrieval of atmospheric
News - Thematic area articles
16 Aug 2022Satellites 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
30 Jan 2024Space data support Earth’s ecosystems
Currently, it is not possible to measure photosynthetic activity from space, but the forthcoming FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX
News - Events and Proceedings
13 June 2022Highlights from Living Planet Symposium
ESA will continue to pursue recovery and reprocessing of heritage data to extend time series and complement data from current