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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
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 - 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 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 - Success Stories
WorldView-3 satellite maps methane plumes at very high spatial resolution
WorldView-3's very high resolution SWIR images are thus an important complement to the current set of satellite missions
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 - Thematic area articles
How satellite data empower sustainable urban growth
Some 56% of the world's population currently reside in cities and the number of urban inhabitants is expected to double by
News - Thematic area articles
Satellites 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
Space 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
Highlights from Living Planet Symposium
ESA will continue to pursue recovery and reprocessing of heritage data to extend time series and complement data from current
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 - Spotlight on EO community
Spotlight on Third Party Mission provider: EUSI
Currently, we offer direct collections from the WorldView satellite constellation consisting of four active satellites.
News - Thematic area articles
Space helps monitor Earth’s changing biosphere
Ocean chlorophyll concentrations can change when ocean currents shift, or sea temperature rises - all impacts of climate
News - Spotlight on EO community
Meet a young researcher who combines remote sensing with deep learning techniques
Currently, she is working as sensor fusion engineer for the AI Fusion team at the Continental's Artificial Intelligence Competence