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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 - Operational News
SMOS data distribution resumed
SMOS data distribution to end users was resumed on 12 March 2024 after confirmation of the adequate quality of the current
News - General News
Go-to guide to Third Party Mission data offering
Data Access Guide has been published, providing technical details and information on available data collections for all current
News - Success Stories
Satellite data predicts lower wheat crop yield
Title: Current drought situation in Ebro basin Description: The SMOS soil-moisture-based drought monitor is updated monthly
News - Thematic area articles
How 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
ESA'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 - Events and Proceedings
SMOS data advances space weather and ionospheric research
Title: Tracking the solar activity cycle using SMOS data Description: This graph shows the “rise” of our current solar activity
News - Success Stories
TPM data help advance plastic litter detection from space
detection and tracking of large marine litter based on high-resolution remote sensing time series, machine learning, and ocean current
News - Operational News
SMOS data outage since 22 February 2024
spacecraft has been back in nominal mode since 25 February and on 27 February, the MIRAS instrument was switched on and is currently
News - Data Release news
SMOS sea ice thickness reprocessed data now available
baseline v724 and with the latest level 3 and 4 sea ice thickness processors baseline v3.3 and v204 respectively, which are currently
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 - Data Release news
New 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
Satellite data central to ocean monitoring
microwave monitoring instruments, optical imagers, and infrared radiometers, which can map ocean variables related to ocean currents
News - Events and Proceedings
Special event for 10th anniversary of SMOS
of measurements and generation of FCDRs and TCDRs SMOS as part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Synergies with current
News - Thematic area articles
How to use space data to probe humankind’s ancient past
SkySat captures Angkor Wat in Cambodia TPMs that are currently providing high resolution or very high resolution imagery
News - Data Release news
PlanetScope and Skysat data available through ESA’s Third Party Missions Programme
The PlanetScope camera on each DOVE cubesat operates currently in four bands (red, green, blue and near infra-red) or five
News - Success Stories
Synergy of space data helps modernise irrigation systems
A key part of modernising irrigation systems, however, is gaining accurate information on current water management methods
News - Success Stories
Heritage 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
Commercial space data help to regreen grasslands in Africa
The availability of commercial data is also enabling Justdiggit to explore new technologies; the team is currently developing
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
Predicting crop yield using Planet data
The researchers at Southampton wanted to get a better understanding of the current state of croplands and their spatial variation