The Basic ERS & Envisat (A)ATSR and Meris Toolbox (BEAM) is a collection of executable tools and an application programming interface (API) which has been developed to facilitate the utilisation, viewing and processing of ESA MERIS, (A)ATSR and ASAR data.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising a workshop in Frascati from 9 to 13 December 2002 to review the first results of the validation of the geophysical data products from its environmental satellite Envisat.

Some of the new features of DESCW v.4.37 are ERS-2 Doppler Centroid evaluation added in the Interferometric Window and Terra/MODIS, Landsat 7 and ERS-2 visibility extended.

Heavy rains were causing major floods in Northern Europe. Two images have been acquired, one from the ERS-2 satellite, with the SAR instrument (16 August 2002) and the other from the ENVISAT satellite, with the ASAR instrument (19 August 2002). Visit the Earth Watching more news.

The ENVISAT spacecraft with all instruments performs well with stable performances.The start of the data delivery to the Cal/Val PIs has been delayed by an instability of various elements of the ground segment, which in turn require extensive manual procedures and lead to a lower throughput than expected in the end-to-end chain of processing, data distribution and handling of requests in general. These difficulties are currently being dealt with and the data delivery to Validation PIs will start by mid August 2002.

The JERS SAR PRI Products Calibration document is available in the Earthnet Online Library.

ASAR testing of the 320 transmit receive modules, one by one, via the so called module stepping test.
Switch On of the GOMOS Instrument Control Unit.

The X band payload data communication channels have been activated with data received at Kiruna and Matera.

DESCW v.4.35 has the following new features: Landsat 5 visibility extended to December 2002, new mission added: Terra/MODIS sensor (ESA acquisitions), Envisat updated launch date.

Payload Module computer switch-on ongoing