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End-User Access Policy to ESA and Third Party Mission Data, Tools and Resources
This document describes ESA's Earth observation End-User Access Policy to ESA and Third Party Mission Data, Tools and Resources.
Agriculture and Space: What Capabilities Can Satellites Bring?
Satellites enable the digital capture of vast and diverse agricultural data, which are essential for modern farming. By providing a comprehensive view of Earth's surface, satellites contribute invaluable information on crop health, soil moisture, and vegetation.
OneAtlas-Quick-guide
Quick guide to using OneAtlas
How much data may I request in a Project Proposal?
Access to some restrained data collections distributed by ESA require submission of a Project Proposal. These collections are typically for Third Party Missions when the data provider can only offer a limited amount of data.
How to use space data to probe humankind’s ancient past
Data disseminated by ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme are enabling archaeological investigations that could help to unravel the mysteries of past societies and cultures.
Commercial and international data for fire monitoring
As climate change sparks a surge in the frequency and intensity of wildfires, satellite data disseminated through ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme are helping scientists to track and investigate these potentially damaging natural events.
How satellite data empower sustainable urban growth
Earth observation is a vital tool for facilitating the sustainable development of the world's cities, helping to ensure that urban centres keep spurring collaboration, innovation and opportunity as they continue to expand.
Showcasing success stories from ESA's Third Party Missions
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world.
New worldwide dataset captures the planet in fine detail
Scientists have developed an open source planetwide dataset of high-resolution Earth observation imagery, thanks to commercial data delivered by ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme.
FedEO
FedEO is a data catalogue that provides a unique entry point to a number of scientific catalogues and services for, but not limited to, European and Canadian missions.
EO CAT
EO CAT is a data catalogue, offering a Next Generation Earth Observation system designed to manage end-user Earth Observation services.
Heritage Space Programme interactive brochure
Learn about ESA's Heritage Space Programme in this interactive brochure.
Heritage Missions brochure
This brochure describes ESA's Heritage Space Programme and includes infographics describing some of the missions in the programme.
Third Party Missions Brochure
This brochure summarises ESA's Third Party Missions programme, providing a timeline and examples of content related to some of the missions.
New open-source Python library improves rapid mapping services
In emergency services, rapid response is paramount. ICube-SERTIT’s Rapid Mapping Service provides near real-time delivery of geo-information to help emergency services respond quickly to disasters such as flooding, fires and landslides. A new Python open-source library, called EOReader, speeds up this mapping response by enabling the easy opening of imagery from multiple satellite sensors, both optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR).
An overview of ESA's Third Party Missions programme
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of almost 50 satellite missions, which are owned by organisations around the world. ESA has agreements with these organisations to acquire, process, and distribute data from their missions
Φ-Week Triumphs
In its fourth edition, Φ-Week presented the scientific community with amazing opportunities and projects—thus running alongside innovation at 360 degrees.
ESA Third Party Missions timeline
We've released a new timeline to illustrate the history of the ESA Third Party Missions.
SPOT-6 to 7 full archive and tasking
The SPOT 6 and 7 satellites ensure data continuity with the no longer operational SPOT 5 satellite and provide an archive of very high resolution optical acquisition as well as the possibility to task the satellites for new acquisitions. Following the completion of the SPOT 7 mission in March 2023, new acquisition tasking is only available for the SPOT 6 satellite. The ortho-products are automatically generated by the SPOT 6 and 7 ground segment, based on SRTM database or Reference3D when available. The applied geographical projection is WGS84 UTM. Spectral band combination options: Panchromatic: black and white image at 1.5 m resolution Pansharpened: 3-bands or 4 bands colour image at 1.5 m resolution Multispectral: 4 bands image at 6m resolution Bundle: 1.5 m panchromatic image and 6 m multispectral image, co-registered. There are two different geometric processing levels: Primary: The Primary product is the processing level closest to the natural image acquired by the sensor. This product restores perfect collection conditions: the sensor is placed in rectilinear geometry, and the image is clear of all radiometric distortion. Ortho: The Ortho product is a georeferenced image in Earth geometry, corrected from acquisition and terrain off-nadir effects. Available in Mono acquisition mode only. Acquisition modes: Mono Stereo Tristereo To complement the traditional and fully customised ordering and download of selected SPOT, Pléiades or Pléiades Neo images in a variety of data formats, you can also subscribe to the OneAtlas Living Library package where the entire OneAtlas optical archive of ortho images is updated on a daily basis and made available for streaming or download. The Living Library consists of less-than-18-months-old imagery a curation of SPOT images with no cloud cover and less than 30° incidence angle Pléiades images acquired worldwide with maximum 15% cloud cover and 30° Incidence Angle Pléiades Neo premium imagery selection with 2% cloud cover and 30° incidence angle Available subscription packages (to be consumed within one year of activation) Subscription package Download Streaming OneAtlas Living Library subscription package 1 You may request up to: 230 km2 Pléiades Neo 430 km2 Pléiades 1,500 km2 SPOT You may request up to: 500 km2 Pléiades Neo 2,000 km2 Pléiades 7,500 km2 SPOT OneAtlas Living Library subscription package 2 You may request up to: 654 km2 Pléiades Neo 1,214 km2 Pléiades 4,250 km2 SPOT You may request up to: 1,417 km2 Pléiades Neo 5,666 km2 Pléiades 21,250 km2 SPOT OneAtlas Living Library subscription package 3 You may request up to: 1,161 km2 Pléiades Neo 2,156 km2 Pléiades 7,545 km2 SPOT You may request up to: 2,515 km2 Pléiades Neo 10,060 km2 Pléiades 37,723 km2 SPOT Each package provides access to both download and streaming options. Depending on their preferences and needs, users can choose streaming only, download only, or a combination of both. The amounts presented in the table reflect consumption based solely on one type—either streaming or download—from a single mission As per ESA policy, very high-resolution imagery of conflict areas cannot be provided.
Geohazards TEP
The Geohazards Thematic Exploitation Platform (TEP) aims to provide Earth observation data for supporting geohazards applications.