An unprecedented wildfire has ripped through the island of Gran Canaria, one of Spain's Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa. The wildfire, which started on Saturday 17 August, has now started to subside after engulfing around 10 000 hectares of land, leading to the evacuation of over 9000 people.

Due to a scheduled maintenance, access to the Aeolus dissemination system will be unavailable on Thursday 22 August, from 09:00 to 11:00 CEST.

We're pleased to announce that the reprocessed CryoSat Ocean Baseline C data for all of 2014 has been published on the Science Server and is available for download.

From 11 to 19 August 2019, the ASM (Absolute Scalar Magnetometer) instrument on board Swarm Alpha was commanded in burst mode.

The 4th ESA EARSeL CNR School 'Remote Sensing for Forest Fires' will take place from 30 September to 1 October 2019 at ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. The purpose of this training course is to disseminate and discuss research methods and technologies of active and passive Earth Observation for applications related to forest fires.

Application submission deadline: 30 August 2019

The EOHelp service will be unavailable on Thursday 15 August 2019 for the ESA-ESRIN Assumption Day (Ferragosto) holiday closure.

As announced on 29 July, the PlanetScope and SkySat missions are Third Party Missions under evaluation.

This will allow any interested user to investigate the suitability of the data for scientific and R&D activities.

Learn more about the available data from these missions:

• PlanetScope Full Archive
• SkySat Full Archive and New Tasking

An EFI-TII gain calibration map was executed on 7 August 2019 on-board Swarm Alpha.

An EFI-TII gain calibration map was executed on 6 August 2019 on-board Swarm Charlie.

We would like to inform Swarm users that an EFI-TII gain calibration map has been executed between 4 and 5 August 2019 on-board Swarm Bravo.