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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
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
Ensuring soil moisture data quality with reference measurements
for establishing stable, long-term fiducial reference networks that can serve as a benchmark for the entire lifetime of current
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Thematic area articles
How space data are transforming the global food system
ICEYE, for example, is a constellation currently consisting of 11 X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites – with seven
News - Operational News
Landsat-8 web portal now available on new environment
Reprocessed (Tier 1 and Tier 2) products from Matera and Kiruna stations, May 2013 - December 2018; some time windows are currently
News - Spotlight on EO community
Meet the Quality Assurance for EO Team
Cristiano is also currently the Operations Director for Serco Italy and Czech Republic.
News - Data Release news
New Landsat-8 Collection-2 Level 1 and Level 2 data available from January
The old Landsat-8 portal, which currently hosts data for the mission, will be retained until the Landsat Dissemination Service
News - Data Release news
New Landsat-8 Collection-2 Level 1 and Level 2 data now available
The Online Dissemination service is still being populated, with the current availability of Collection-2 data as follows:
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 - 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 - Success Stories
Satellite data allows real-time detection of potential fires
availability, ESA is moving from the classical Landsat 8 L1 production towards the testing of new Real Time processing pilot that currently
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 - 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
Satellites expand research on Space Weather and Sun-Earth Interactions
This research – which is currently being completed – aims to explore how the process produces nitrogen oxide in the mesosphere
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 - 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 - 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