Due to a planned software maintenance, the data dissemination server PFD-NS-UP at the UK-PAC processing centre will be down from 9:30 to 13:30 CET on Thursday 06 March 2014.

Due to a planned software installation, the MERCI web interface hosting the Envisat MERIS Full Resolution (FRS) data will be unavailable from 14:00 to 19:00 CET on Monday 3 March 2014.

Nominal service will resume as soon as the maintenance has been completed.

Due to a planned software installation, the MERCI web interface hosting Envisat MERIS Reduced Resolution (RR) data (server 'mer-merci-uk.eo.esa.int') will be unavailable for approximately 6 hours from 1pm CET on Wednesday 26 February 2014.

Nominal service will resume as soon as the maintenance has been completed.

Due to system problems, the MIRAVI (MERIS Images RApid VIsualisation) website giving access to images generated from the raw data of acquired images from Envisat, is currently unavailable.

Like thermometers in the sky, satellite instruments can measure the temperatures of Earth's surfaces. ESA's new GlobTemperature project is merging these data from a variety of spaceborne sensors to provide scientists with a one-stop shop for land, lake and ice temperature data.

Following the release of the Envisat MERIS Level 1 Full Resolution Full Swath data (MER_FRS_1P) online via FTP, the products are now also retrievable via HTTP through the MERIS MERCI system (see related news of 20 November 2013).

As previously announced (see related news of 05 September 2013), the Envisat MERIS Level 1 Full Resolution Full Swath data (MER_FRS_1P) has now been systematically processed and made available online.

ESA has recently completed the activity to re-generate the ASAR Wide Swath (WS) Burst Synchronisation information for the majority of the Envisat ASAR WS mission. The B/S information has now been made available to customers in the EOLI-SA Catalogue.

Building on its use of satellites for responding to disasters, ESA has helped to create a service that makes flood maps available simply via the Internet.

The amount of sunlight being absorbed or reflected by Earth is one of the driving forces for weather and climate. Satellites are providing this information with unprecedented accuracy.