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From science to operations for the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) mission (POSTPONED)

May 10, 2021 - May 12, 2021
ESA-ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1
Noordwijk, Netherlands

In recent weeks Coronavirus (Covid-19) has become an international issue. Accordingly, we have postponed the CIMR Science to Operations Meeting (originally planned from 15 to 17 April 2020) to 10th to 12th of May 2021 at ESTEC subject to a favourable status of the Covid-19 situation at that time. We believe that this is in …

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MOSAiC Arctic expedition reaches North Pole

On 19 August 2020, the world’s largest and longest polar research expedition – known as MOSAiC – reached the North Pole after making an unplanned detour owing to lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions. The expedition is now entering its final stage, during which researchers will study the last piece of the Arctic puzzle: the growth of …

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10th ESA Training on Earth Observation

Educational materials from the 10th ESA Training on Earth Observation held in Bratislava on 17-21 September 2018. Download specific blocks here below or access the full theory and practicals from the window left side link. Introduction: ESA EO Missions (F.Sarti) ESA Data Access (R.Rigoli) Overview of Plan for European Cooperating States (PECS) (K.Van der Made) …

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9th ESA Training on Earth Observation

Educational materials from the 9th ESA Training on Earth Observation held in Vilnius on 03-07 July 2017. Download specific blocks here below or access the full theory and practicals from the window left side link. Introduction ESA EO Missions (F.Sarti) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR): Intro to SAR (theory) (C.Thiel) SAR processing (practical) (C.Thiel) SAR & Optical …

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Systematic swath elevation and monthly DEMs over the Greenland Ice Sheet margin from CryoSat

The CryoTEMPO-EOLIS (Elevation Over Land Ice from Swath) product, now operationally available at on the CryoSat Dissemination Server, exploits CryoSat’s SARIn mode and the novel Swath processing technique to deliver increased spatial and temporal coverage of time-dependent elevation over land ice, a critical metric for tracking ice mass trends. This is the outcome of a …

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Greenland and Antarctica losing ice six times faster than expected

According to IMBIE (Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise) most recent analyses, Greenland and Antarctica lost 6.4 trillion tonnes of ice between 1992 and 2017 – pushing global sea levels up by 17.8 millimetres, on track with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case climate warming scenario. Read the full story and Nature scientific articles …

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SMOS contributes to studies of melt in Antarctica

Monitoring of the melt season contributes to characterizing the seasonal and interannual climatic variations in Antarctica and is important for assessing the future stability of the ice sheet. Due to its 1.4 GHz frequency, SMOS can penetrate much deeper into the ice compared to other microwave imagers operating at 19 GHz: this implies that joint use …

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