In the context of the EO Science for Society Programme Element, the European Space Agency is organising ATMOS-2018, a conference on the topical theme Atmosphere aimed at exploiting data from ESA and EO Missions for science and application development. The purpose of this conference is to provide scientists and data users with the opportunity to …
Following on from the “15 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry” Symposium in 2006, and the “20 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry” Symposium in 2012, both deemed a very successful landmark by the participants and the readership of the Proceedings, we have now reached the 25-year anniversary of the first supply of ERS-1 and …
The ionosphere can be influenced from below, i.e. by the lower atmosphere, for example by the transfer of energy related to upward propagating atmospheric gravity or planetary waves or by atmospheric tides. These effect are however frequently superimposed to the ionospheric variability caused by the outer regions, and therefore, are more difficult to be identified. Nevertheless, …
Technology developments that have enabled the emergence of a new kind of participatory medium for open online distance education, including innovative learning material allowing students to engage personally in research. The MOOC-ATM project shall provide an introduction to how Earth Observation (EO) data from satellites is acquired and used to address climate issues, ranging from …
Global Observing Systems – Earth System Modelling – Data Assimilation – Global Change: these are the main topics for the yearly appointment with EO data, science and applications open to early career scientists (i.e. Ph.D. students, young post-doctoral scientists) who are specialised in a variety of Earth Science disciplines and wish to expand and improve their knowledge and …
Every two years, ESA’s Earth observation summer schools draws young scientists from all over the world to learn more about remote sensing, Earth system science, modelling and monitoring, and how data can be used to better understand the world we live in. This year, the two-week summer school is being held on 30 July to …
Thanks to satellites a wealth of information is at our fingertips to understand the different components of our planet and how these components interact to form the Earth system as a whole. However, despite unprecedented progress in analysing and understanding the stream of data we have available, it still remains a challenge to analyse multiple …
CIRCAS aims at providing a set of atmospheric (cloud and aerosol) and surface (albedo) products derived from S3A/SLSTR observations retrieved using the same radiative transfer physics and assumptions.The retrieval is based on the CISAR (Combined Inversion of Surface and Atmosphere pRoperties) algorithm. CISAR is an advanced mathematical method developed by Rayference for the joint retrieval …
Enable better exploitation of ESA atmospheric satellite missions by the measurement/provision of improved spectroscopic reference data sets.This project includes two main activities: one on the generation of improved spectroscopy in the SWIR (water vapour, methane and carbon dioxide) and in the UV band (sulfur dioxide) in preparation for the Sentinel 5 Precursor mission and one …
The ESA Atmospheric Toolbox project (BEAT) aims to provide scientists with tools for ingesting, processing, and analyzing atmospheric remote sensing data. The project consists of several components, with the main components being CODA, BEAT-II/HARP, and VISAN. These components are made available by means of several software packages. A full overview of the BEAT components and …
