This year marks the 20th meeting of the GHRSST International Science Team (G-XX), which will be held at ESA-Esrin, Frascati, Italy, from 3 to 7 June 2019.

Abstract submission is open; papers can be submitted until the deadline of 29 March 2019.

Images acquired every six days by the European Union's Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites are being used to map ground movement across two billion measurement sites in Norway, revealing shifts as small as one millimetre a year.

Following the suspension of GOSAT observations in November, the satellite observations have now resumed for all instruments.

For over 40 years ESA's Earthnet Programme has played a significant role as part of ESA's mandatory activities, providing the framework for integrating non-ESA missions, i.e. Third-Party Missions (TPM), into the overall ESA Earth Observation (EO) strategy. Complementary to ESA-owned EO missions, the programme allows European users access to a large portfolio of TPM and is particularly important for promoting the international use of EO data.

ESA is pleased to announce the release of several new features as part of the ESA On-The-Fly data processing and dissemination service providing data from the Envisat ASAR and ERS-1/2 SAR mission archives.

Users wishing to send an abstract and participate in the upcoming EGU General Assembly 2019 still have a chance to do so, until the abstract submission deadline of 10 January 2019, 13:00 CET.

Electric Field Instrument (EFI) LP and LPI data measured by Swarm Alpha are not available on 18 December 2018. The reason for this data gap is still under investigation.

Register for POLinSAR 2019 online.

Deadline for registration: 20 January 2019

Due to a science packet corruption which occurred on the VFM (Vector Field Magnetometer) on board Swarm Alpha, the VFM science data (at 50 Hz rate) were not received from 18 December 2018 at around 18:13 UTC to 19 December 2018 at 16:46 UTC when the VFM was restarted. As a consequence, no L1B VFM data are available for this time window.

During the Christmas holidays, the ESA EO Help Desk services will be closed on the following days:

• 25, 26 and 27 December 2018
• 1 January 2019.