ESA Observing the Earth 
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Monitoring epidemics
21.10.2014 14:19
Satellite data can help identify areas prone to the emergence and spread of epidemics such as Ebola, malaria, meningitis or dengue fever
Europe secures new generation of weather satellites
16.10.2014 16:00
Contracts were signed today to build three pairs of MetOp Second Generation satellites, ensuring the continuity of essential information for global weather forecasting and climate monitoring for decades to come.
High desert
16.10.2014 15:27
Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-1A image over the ‘high desert region’ of the northwestern United States, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
Earth from Space
16.10.2014 14:25
Join us Friday, 17 October, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-1 radar image over the ‘high desert’ in the US state of Oregon
Fishbone forest
16.10.2014 11:20
Technology image of the week: Deforestation in western Brazil, as imaged by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite
Romania to shed new light on the atmosphere
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.
Kalma
10.10.2014 10:05
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
Earth from Space
9.10.2014 14:54Join 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
Dragon receives high award in China
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.
My Planet from Space
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.
My Planet from Space
7.10.2014 9:00
Discover the beauty and fragility of our planet in a special exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Italy
First Copernicus satellite now operational
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.
Athabasca oil sands
3.10.2014 10:05
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
CryoSat unveils secrets of the deep
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.
Earth from Space
2.10.2014 15:05Join 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
Earth from Space
2.10.2014 14:20Join 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
Earth’s portrait
2.10.2014 13:46
The latest land-cover map for studying the effects of climate change, conserving biodiversity and managing natural resources has been released
Earth from Space
2.10.2014 13:28Join 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
New toolboxes make using Sentinel data easy
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.
Good and bad news for our atmosphere
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.
GOCE reveals gravity dip from ice loss
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.
Athens on the radar
26.9.2014 10:05
Earth observation image of the week: Sentinel-1 image of Greece’s Attica peninsula, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
Earth from Space
25.9.2014 15:30Join 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
My Planet from Space
16.9.2014 12:03
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