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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 - Infographics
16 July 2021ERS - ESA’s first Earth observation satellites
To mark the 30th anniversary of ERS, we've released a new infographic summarising the mission.
News - Data Release news
22 July 2021New reprocessing of datasets celebrates 30 years of ERS
The ERS programme celebrated its 30th anniversary on 17 July.
News - Data Release news
12 July 2019Updated Precise Orbit data (POD) for the full ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission available
The Precise Orbit files (ERS.ORB.POD) for the entire ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission periods have been reprocessed with up-to-date
News - Success Stories
7 Feb 2024Trailblazing ERS-2 mission enables climate change applications
As ESA’s ERS-2 satellite approaches Earth’s atmosphere for reentry, it’s time to reflect on the mission’s great achievements
News - Data Release news
13 June 2019ERS-1 Scatterometer L2 dataset processed with ASPS v10.04 is available online
The reprocessed dataset together with corresponding ERS-2 data is now available.
News - Operational News
4 Jan 2019Envisat-ERS (A)SAR - Enhanced Dissemination Service
features as part of the ESA On-The-Fly data processing and dissemination service providing data from the Envisat ASAR and ERS
News - Data Release news
20 June 2018New ERS-2 GOME Level 1 v5.1 dataset available online
The post-operational full-mission reprocessing campaign of ERS-2 GOME consolidated data has been completed with an improved
News - Data Release news
8 Mar 2024FDR4ALT - ESA unveils new cutting-edge ERS/Envisat Altimeter and Microwave Radiometer Datasets
The new records, available in NetCDF format, are derived from the ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat Altimeter and Radiometer instruments
News - Data Release news
17 June 2021ESA's (A)SAR dissemination service enhanced with Envisat ASAR MR L1 data
integration of four additional Envisat ASAR Level 1 collections, ESA is now providing access to the complete Envisat and ERS
News - Infographics
5 July 2023Focusing on Envisat MERIS Full Resolution Level-2 data
ESA's Envisat mission continued and expanded upon the legacy of its predecessors, the ERS (European Remote Sensing) satellites
News - Success Stories
28 Apr 2023ESA missions deliver new long-term perspective on sea ice decline
ESA’s Ice Mission Artist’s impression of Envisat ESA’s ERS programme – consisting of two satellites named ERS-1 and ERS-2
News - Thematic area articles
30 June 2022Transforming space data into climate action
Title: ERS-2 Description: The ERS programme was composed of two missions, ERS-1 and ERS-2, which were launched into the same
News - General News
8 Apr 2024ESA's improved Earth system data records: what is in store for the future?
Title: ERS satellite Description: Artitst's concept of the ERS-2 satellite, which followed its predecessor ERS-1.
News - Events and Proceedings
26 May 2022Data preservation takes centre stage at Living Planet Symposium
Title: ERS imagery for 20 years Description: The very first image acquired by ERS-1 on 27 July 1991 shows the Flevoland polder
News - Success Stories
1 Mar 2022How Envisat helped to shape global understanding of Earth’s systems
Title: ERS-2/Envisat InSAR: Larsen Ice Shelf Description: An interferometric image of the Larsen Ice Shelf generated from
News - Thematic area articles
31 Mar 2022Satellite data central to ocean monitoring
Data from multiple missions (ALOS, Envisat, ERS-1, ERS-2, Landsat-8, RADARSAT-1, RADARSAT-2, Sentinel-1, TanDEM-X, and TerraSAR-X
News - Success Stories
16 May 2019A quarter of glacier ice in West Antarctica is now unstable
CPOM) used over 800 million measurements of Antarctic ice sheet height recorded by radar altimeter instruments on ESA's ERS
News - General News
27 Sept 2018Satellite Radar Altimetry: past and future
A combination of several satellites (Topex/Poseidon and ERS) allows a better observation of eddies in the Gulf Stream.
News - Thematic area articles
16 Aug 2022Satellites reveal changes to Earth’s icy zones
The agency’s European Remote Sensing (ERS) programme was composed of two satellites, ERS-1 and ERS-2, which were launched
News - Success Stories
30 Apr 2020Mission continuity
ERS-1’s mission ended in 2000 and its successor, ERS-2, was active until 2011, but the foundation Earth Science measurements