14.10.2014 13:40
Romania is leading the way in an ambitious project to build an instrument to detect and monitor tiny particles suspended in the air. The new ‘lidar’– the first of its kind in Europe – is set to contribute to ESA’s satellites that focus on the atmosphere.
10.10.2014 10:05
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Earth observation image of the week: the southern Darfur region of Sudan and the Kalma refugee camp, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
9.10.2014 14:54
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Join us Friday, 10 October, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features an image acquired over southern Darfur, showing part of the Kalma refugee camp
9.10.2014 10:28
Following a decade of cooperation, China has honoured ESA’s Yves-Louis Desnos with the People’s Republic of China Friendship Award – the country’s highest honour for foreign experts who have contributed to China’s economic and social progress.
7.10.2014 14:50
The fragility and beauty of our planet came into focus yesterday with a special viewing of satellite images at Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni. The event was attended by the heads of ESA, NASA, Italy’s space agency and representatives from the Italian Presidency of the Council of the EU.
7.10.2014 9:00
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Discover the beauty and fragility of our planet in a special exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Italy
6.10.2014 9:45
With the commissioning of Sentinel-1A completed and the satellite’s transfer to the team in charge of its exploitation, its data are available as of today to all users.
This marks the beginning of the satellite’s operational life, delivering radar coverage for an array of applications in the areas of oceans, ice, changing land and emergency response.
3.10.2014 10:05
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Earth observation image of the week: the world’s largest known reservoir of crude bitumen in Canada's Alberta province, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
3.10.2014 9:14
ESA’s ice mission has been used to create a new gravity map, exposing thousands of previously unchartered ‘seamounts’, ridges and deep ocean structures. This vivid new picture of the least-explored part of the ocean offers fresh clues about how continents form and breakup.
2.10.2014 15:05
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Join us Friday, 3 October, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features an image over the largest known reservoir of crude bitumen
2.10.2014 14:20
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Join us Friday, 3 October, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features an image over the largest known reservoir of crude bitumen
2.10.2014 13:46
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The latest land-cover map for studying the effects of climate change, conserving biodiversity and managing natural resources has been released
2.10.2014 13:28
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Join us Friday, 3 October, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features an image over the largest known reservoir of crude bitumen – and the open-pit mining that’s disturbing the local forests
30.9.2014 16:20
The Sentinel satellites are built primarily to deliver information for environmental services through Europe’s Copernicus programme, but they will also be used to advance our scientific understanding of Earth. Paving the way for easy scientific exploitation, ESA has released three new open source scientific software toolboxes.
29.9.2014 9:45
Data from ESA’s veteran Envisat satellite show ups and downs in the concentrations of the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide and the climate-relevant greenhouse gas carbon dioxide across the globe.
26.9.2014 14:50
Although not designed to map changes in Earth’s gravity over time, ESA’s extraordinary satellite has shown that the ice lost from West Antarctica over the last few years has left its signature.
26.9.2014 10:05
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Earth observation image of the week: Sentinel-1 image of Greece’s Attica peninsula, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
25.9.2014 15:30
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Join us Friday, 26 September, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-1 image of Athens, where ESA will be holding a special event for European Researchers’ Night
19.9.2014 10:05
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Earth observation image of the week: the jagged Baltic coastline near Finland’s capital, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
18.9.2014 14:12
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Join us Friday, 19 September, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a satellite image over Finland’s Baltic coastline near the capital, Helsinki
17.9.2014 15:46
World-renowned remote sensing experts gathered in Valencia, Spain, last week to train the next generation of Earth observation scientists in the exploitation of satellite data for land applications.
16.9.2014 12:03
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Discover the beauty and fragility of our planet in a special exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Italy on 30 September – 2 November
16.9.2014 12:03
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Discover the beauty and fragility of our planet in a special exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Italy on 30 September – 2 November
15.9.2014 16:00
Scientists met in California this summer to test new methods for measuring greenhouse gases. This joint effort helps to show how ESA’s CarbonSat candidate satellite mission could identify sources of carbon dioxide and methane and how they disperse in the atmosphere.
15.9.2014 14:16
Using satellites for improving the exploitation of water resources is just one of the innovative ideas developed over the week-long 'camp' dedicated to creating mobile apps drawing on Earth observation data.
12.9.2014 10:05
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Earth observation image of the week: Lake Gairdner in central South Australia
5.9.2014 11:25
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Follow the advanced Land Training Course lectures via live webstream from Spain’s University of Valencia 8–12 September. Live coverage continues Friday at 9:00 CEST