ESA is pleased to announce the availability of Deimos-1 & 2 products to the scientific community. Further details are available on the Deimos-1 and Deimos-2 missions and Deimos-1&2 ESA archive dataset pages.

We would like to inform users that the Abstract submission deadline for the POLinSar Conference has been extended to 2 November 2018.

A software maintenance affecting the ALOS PALSAR OADS has been planned for 16 October 2018. It will take place from 09:00 to 11:00 CEST.

ESA is challenging ‘citizen scientists' to apply the latest AI and image processing techniques to upscale images acquired by the Earth-watching Proba-V minisatellite.

ESA is organising a Φ-week event at its Earth observation centre in Frascati, Italy from 12-16 November 2018. Focusing on New Space and especially its applications to Earth observation (EO) the week will review latest developments in New Space investment.

The upcoming 2019 Living Planet Symposium, to be held from 13-17 May 2019 in Milan, Italy, promises to be the biggest and widest ranging of the Living Planet series, with excellent opportunities for sponsors and exhibitors to promote scientific advances, products and services.

If you are interested in submitting an abstract, please note that the deadline for submissions is 11 November 2018.

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is monitoring an oil spill in the Mediterranean (Thyrrenian Sea) following a collision between two merchant ships on Sunday 7 October 2018.

A 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Indonesia on 28 September, destroying homes and hundreds of lives. As the death toll continues to rise, the effects of this natural disaster are far-reaching, with hundreds of thousands of people seeking access food, water and shelter in the aftermath of this tragedy.

Further to the unavailability notice published earlier today, we would like to inform users that the maintenance was completed successfully, and the SIRAL instrument resumed operations at 11:10 UTC as originally planned.

ESA and ICEYE are pleased to announce the opportunity to freely access, up to the end of the year, ICEYE imagery over several demonstration sites, to assess image quality and suitability for several applications: monitoring urban, agricultural and forest environments, and vessel tracking (ship detection).