Due to a scheduled maintenance starting on 09 January 2018, access to the On-The-Fly online dissemination systems will be unavailable and the access to the ERS and Envisat (A)SAR collections via EOLI-SA will also be affected during the maintenance on 10 January 2018.

Due to a planned hardware maintenance activity on Dissharm, the following systems/services will be affected on Wednesday 13 December 2017 from 10:00 to 15:00 CET:

• MERIS FRS (MERCI and FTP access)
• MPPF-VIS
• RSS
• Third Party Mission Dissemination Service
• CryoSat Science Server

Due to a scheduled maintenance, access to the OADS-OTF online dissemination systems will be unavailable during the following time frames:

• 29 November 2017 from 9:30 to 14:00 CET - ERS and Envisat (A)SAR collections
• 30 November 2017 from 9:30 to 12:30 CET - ALOS-PALSAR collections
• 01 December 2017 from 9:30 to 10:30 CET - Third Party Missions collections

Following the successful LPVE 2014, the European Space Agency (ESA) is inviting scientists and Cal/Val experts to present the latest results from their on-going research at the 2018 Workshop on Land Product Validation and Evolution (LPVE 2018).

The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 30 November 2017.

Due to a planned maintenance activity, the On-The-Fly (OTF) collections in EOLI-SA may not be available on Monday 02 October 2017 from 14:00 to 16:00 CEST.

The regenerated GOMOS User Friendly Products (UFP) datasets v1, Issue 2 in netCDF-4 format are now available to users via the ESA EO centralised online dissemination service.

Due to an urgent maintenance activity, the EOLI-SA On-The-Fly (OTF) ASA_IMS_1P collection will be unavailable on Wednesday 28 June 2017 from 09:00 to 15:00 CEST.

Users are informed that a new release of the MERCI Catalogue and Inventory (v2.4.1) with integration into the ESA EO Single Sign-On (EO-SSO) architecture is now available for access to the Envisat MERIS Full Resolution (FRS) as well as the Envisat and ERS (A)ATSR datasets.

Due to a scheduled maintenance activity, all of the EOLI-SA collections will be unavailable (both data search and download) on Wednesday 07 June 2017 from 9:30 to 10:30 CEST.

A planned EO-SSO and OADS/OTF systems maintenance will be affecting the availability of many services at ESA-ESRIN; the activities have been scheduled on Monday 05 June 2017 from 09:30 to 12:30 CEST.