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NEWS
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 - Success Stories
Long-term satellite data show wind farms can affect local air currents
Long-term measurements allow before and after comparison Data from the heritage Envisat satellite currently maintained accessible
News - Success Stories
Aeolus enhances volcanic ash forecasts for aviation safety
Current projects supporting PANGEA include the D-TECT ERC, the PANGEA4CalVal TWINNING and the L2A+, ACPV ESA studies.
News - Events and Proceedings
Φ-Week Triumphs
Opening Session Title: Φ-Week's Opening Session Description: During the fourth edition of ESA’s Φ -Week, Josef Aschbacher, current
News - Infographics
Explore sample data products from Third Party Missions
This new infographic summarises the missions that currently have sample data: Download the Infographic A link to each sample
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 - Operational News
Aeolus activates new range bin setting
stratosphere coupled with an overlying westerly jet moving gradually upwards, countering the expected downward propagation of the current
News - Thematic area articles
Space data help to unravel the complexities of Earth’s atmosphere
mission delivered unprecedented insight into the global distributions of methane and carbon dioxide, helping to underpin current
News - Success Stories
Young scientists bid farewell to ESA's wind mission
He recently published research focusing on the validation of Aeolus data and is currently working on a paper investigating
News - Success Stories
Trailblazing 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 - Data Release news
Aeolus data now publicly available
Following the introduction in June 2019 of a correction of biases related to spectrometer pixels showing elevated dark current
News - Operational News
A Guide to Aeolus Range Bin Settings
Current Range Bin Settings Multiple Aeolus Range Bin Settings are active at the same time.
News - General News
How SNAP facilitates access to ESA Third Party Missions data
SNAP is currently developed by a consortium that includes Brockmann Consult GmbH, CS France, CS Romania, SenSar and SkyWatch
News - Success Stories
Commercial and international data for fire monitoring
The Finnish ICEYE constellation, added to the TPM programme in 2021, currently consists of 27 synthetic aperture radar (SAR
News - General News
Quality Reports Advanced Search Portal takes off
The system by default will show the reports for the current month, but the user can easily choose a different type of visualisation
News - Thematic area articles
Tracking the world’s forests from space
Deforestation in Brazil Scientist’s understanding of the health of the world’s forests is being further improved through current
News - Success Stories
ESA’s wind mission could help to forecast tropical storms
delivered by weather balloons, satellites, and aircraft has been shown to improve its projections; however, the wind data currently
News - Thematic area articles
How ESA uses space data to explore deep Earth
Swarm maps core dynamics The swirling, conducting iron in Earth’s liquid outer core create powerful electric currents, which
News - Success Stories
Drones join the campaign to validate Aeolus data
The heading is symbolic: Askos is the Greek name of the legendary bag that contains all the storm-currents for Aeolus—the
News - Thematic area articles
How scientists use space data to help advance the energy transition
To build on the current project, the research team plans to use data from ESA’s Third Party Missions programme, which are
News - Success Stories
Earth Observation data to improve navigation risk modelling and shipping routes
improve the detection of unreported features in the maritime AIS system and the statistical evaluation of the accuracy of current