The GOME Total Column Water Vapour (TCWV) Climate product developed within the ESA GOME-Evolution project is now accessible from the ESA data archives together with the ERS-2 GOME data. The data is made available to users via direct download from the ESA Data Dissemination Service upon Fast Registration.

Measurements of atmospheric ozone from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite are now being used in daily forecasts of air quality.

This summer's drought is a harsh reminder of how unusual weather can cause havoc for farmers – even in a rich part of the world like Western Europe. While there is a wealth of satellite data available to help predict the risk of drought, it can be daunting for a non-expert to handle. ESA's Food Security Thematic Exploitation Platform (FS-TEP) makes this task much easier.

The Open Science Earth Observation (OSEO) call aims to foster scientific and applications uptake of full archives of EO data, by offering third party services which exploit state of the art ICT.

ESA is pleased to announce the opening of the new EOX Cloud Free Sentinel-2 map Service as a 3rd-party service added to the OSEO call.

A series of TEP platforms will be migrated to new domains on 3 December 2018. During the migration the websites will be unavailable from 10:00 to 14:00 CET.

The following platforms will be affected and each will have a new address after the migration:

• Hydrology TEP will change to https://hydrology-tep.eu
• Geohazards TEP will change to https://geohazards-tep.eu
• Urban TEP will change to https://urban-tep.eu

With seven Copernicus Sentinel missions in orbit delivering an almost unimaginable amount of freely-available data about our planet, the potential of tapping into this incredible resource to better the lives of citizens is almost limitless. A new publication that collects 99 stories from European public authorities highlights how we are all benefiting from Copernicus.

There is still time to apply for ESA's 5th Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry.. Applications can be submitted until the extended deadline of 30 November 2018.