ESA is offering a free online access to the following ALOS datasets:

• ALOS PALSAR PLR (Polarimetric 4 polarization)
• ALOS PALSAR FBD (Fine Beam Double polarization)
• ALOS PALSAR FBS (Fine Beam Single polarization)
• ALOS Africa (AVNIR-2 OBS and PRISM OB1 L1B)

Access is granted after fast registration. Note that PALSAR access requires further verification by ESA that the information provided by the PI is consistent with the service (More details on the ALOS PALSAR FAQ page).

Access to MODIS Level 1b data acquired by European stations was provided by ESA for scientific research and applications development.

ESA is offering free of charge, for scientific research and application development, access to Cartosat-1 (formerly IRS-P5) archive data, as well as Euro-Maps 3D Digital Surface Model derived from Cartosat-1.

ESA will support as many high-quality and innovative projects as possible within the quota limit available, therefore only a limited amount of products can be made available to each project.

Availability and restrictions to the use of the above data is described in the ESA TPM T&C and in the Terms of applicability document linked below

ESA offers access to COSMO-SkyMed data for Research and Application development, both archived and new acquisitions, from the following 4 modes:

• ScanSAR Huge
• ScanSAR Wide
• StripMap HIMAGE
• StripMap PINGPONG

Only a limited amount of products can be made available to each project, geographical restrictions are applied based on PI country of residence. Only PIs from Europe, Canada and China (only if they participate in a Dragon project) are eligible for this ESA TPM.

The list of available data can be retrieved using the COSMO-SkyMed products catalogue (self registration required).

• High Resolution SpotLight
• SpotLight
• StripMap
• ScanSAR

PAZ (peace in Spanish),formerly known as SEOSAR, is an X-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) spacecraft based on the TerraSAR-X platform, to serve the security and the defense needs as dual-use mission (civil/defense) funded and owned by the Spanish Ministry of Defense and managed by Hisdesat.

• DEIMOS-1/2 ESA archive (online access, fast registration)
• DEIMOS-1/2 Full archive and New Tasking (on demand via Data Service request).
  The Deimos-1 products are available in L1R (Geo Positioned) and L1T (Orthorectified). The Deimos-2 in L1B (native) and L1C (orthorectified) as:
  • Pan Sharpened
  • Panchromatic
  • Multispectral
  • Bundle
  • Stereo Pair

ESA will support as many high-quality and innovative projects as possible within the quota limit available, therefore, for the "on demand" TPM,
Availability and restrictions to the use of the above data is described in the ESA TPM T&C and in the Terms of applicability document linked below..

The following products are available for Research and Application development:

• 1 European coverage (38 countries) acquired in 2007 from the satellites of the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC)

The Level1 data provided in this collection originate from the various DMC satellites Beijing-1, UK-DMC and Nigeria Sat-1 SLIM6 instrument (with 32m spatial resolution) with 3 spectral bands. The swath is up to about 600 km. In addition to the Level 1, the collection provides the same data geometrically corrected.

• STANDARD (2A) / ORTHO READY STANDARD (OR2A)
• ORTHO READY STEREO
• MAP SCALE ORTHO 1:12.000 Orthorectified

ESA will support as many high-quality and innovative European and Canadian projects as possible within the quota limit available, therefore only a limited amount of products can be made available to each project.

ESA is offering full Archive and new GOSAT (Greenhouse gases Observing Satellite) and (in continuation) GOSAT-2 JAXA missions data for Research and Application development. Access is immediate and free for online FTP download.

• Standard GOSAT products (Nrt FTS L1X products,calibrated Level 1B products, and all higher level products based on the validated L1B and released to general users)
• FTS-2 Common (day and night), SWIR (only day) and TIR (day and night) Level 1A and 1B data
• CAI-2 Common, Forward and Backward Level 1A and 1B

An opportunity to access to GRACE Level-1B and Level-2 data is offered by ESA for scientific research and applications development, on the basis of an agreement with the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ).

Data are immediately available online through anonymous FTP via GFZ.

ESA maintains an archive of Geo Ortho Kit IKONOS data previously requested through the TPM scheme. Acquired ,between 2000 and 2008, over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, this dataset is available online for direct download after fast registration.

The following products are available for Research and Application development:

• 2 European coverages acquired in the years 2005-2006-2007 from the SPOT 4,
  SPOT 5 and IRS-P6 satellites (online)

Availability and restrictions to the use of the above data is described in the Terms of applicability.

Initiated under the International Polar Year (IPY), ESA is offering a free online access through the online dissamination server to ALOS IPY Antarctica collection.
The following products are available for Research and Application development:

• ALOS PALSAR ScanSAR (WB1) around 5000 processed products in 100m spatial resolution (L1.5),

• Temporal coverage:
  from July (cycle 21) to December 2008 (beginning of cycle 24)
  from May 2009 (cycle 27) to March 2010.

ESA is offering free of charge ,for scientific research and application development, access to IRS-1C and IRS-1D archive. The IRS-1C and IRS-1D products are available as part of the GAF Indian Satellite Imagery products from the following sensors (on demand):

• PAN (Panchromatic camera, 5.8m res.).
• LISS-III (Green, Red, NIR and SWIR bands, 23/70m res.) - Linear Imaging Self Scanning medium res. multi-spectral
• WiFS (Red and NIR bands, 188m res.) - Wide Field Sensor.

• IRS-1C/D ESA archive collection

ESA will support as many high-quality and innovative projects as possible within the quota limit available, therefore only a limited amount of products can be made available to each project.

ESA is offering free online access to the EO community , to JERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar and Optical data, acquired systematically, based on an agreement between ESA and NASDA.
The following product types are available:

• JERS-1 SAR Level 1 Precision Image (JSA_PRI_1P)
• JERS-1 SAR Level 1 Single Look Complex Image (JSA_SLC_1P)
• JERS-1 Optical VNIR Level 1 System Corrected Products (OPS_SYC_1P)

Access is granted immediately to all users after fast registration

The European Space Agency gives access for Research and Application development to the Kompsat-2 ESA dataset ,free of charge to the worldwide user community. The dataset comprises acquisitions from 2007 to 2014.

The MSC sensor (Multispectral camera) onboard KOMPSAT-2 provides data at 1 m spatial resolution (Panchromatic mode -1 band) and 4 m spatial resolution (Multispectral mode 4 bands). The swath is of about 15 km.

ESA is offering:

• Pre-defined cloud-free European Coverages of TM and ETM+ data acquired between 1990 and 1995 (TM) and between 1999 and 2003 (ETM+). Available after (Fast registration and direct download for LANDSAT.TM.SCPSCC).
• Newly processed Orthocorrected Landsat 5 TM data from 1984 to 2011 and Landsat 7 ETM from 1999 to 2003. Products unique to ESA, not in USGS archives. Available over Europe (incl. Greenland) and West Africa (Fast registration and direct download for LANDSAT.TM.GTC and LANDSAT.ETM.GTC).

From August 2013 ESA is offering access to Landsat-8 products:

• Systematic provision of all Landsat-8 data acquired over European station(s)
• Near-real-time data provision within ± 3 hours after sensing
• Online availability of all products
• USGS certified ESA Landsat-8 (L1T and L1gT) products based on the USGS operational processing chain

The following instruments are available:

• The OLI (Operational Land Imager) sensor, which provides products of 30m resolution for VIS/NIR/SWIR, 15m resolution for PAN data,180km x 185 km, 9 spectral bands
• The TIRS (Thermal Infrared Scanner) sensor, which provides an additional 2 TIR bands.

• Oceansat-2 Near Real Time data over Europe, Level 1B, 2B and 2C.

The access is granted immediately to all users worldwide after fast registration.

Since June 2007 ESA has an agreement in place to distribute data acquired by the ODIN satellite. Access to ODIN (SMR and OSIRIS) validated Level1 and Level 2 data may be provided by ESA to worldwide Principal Investigators for scientific research and applications development.

Data acquired by ESA since 1998 in visibility of Matera (Italy), Maspalomas (Spain) and Tromso (Norway) receiving stations by the SeaWiFS sensor onboard Orbview-2 (SeaStar) can be provided to Cat-1 users.

Data are offered at reproduction cost; projects can comprise a maximum of 1 PI + 3 Co-PIs.

SeaWiFS provides multispectral data at 1 Km spatial resolution.
Archived data can be identified using the EOLI Catalogues

OrbView-2 / SeaWiFS acquisitions stopped definitely in February 2011

ESA is offering free of charge for scientific research and application development access to the following PLEIADES collections:

• PLEIADES ESA archive (online access, fast registration)
• PLEIADES full archive & Tasking, all production levels single ,stereo or tri-stereo (project proposal)
• Subscription for the access to OneAtlas Living Library (project proposal)

Availability and restrictions to the use of the above data is described in the ESA TPM T&C and in the Terms of applicability document linked below.

ESA is offering a free online access to the EO community, to PROBA-1 CHRIS and HRC data. Archived data are available for both instruments, while new tasking is available only for CHRIS.

New acquisition requests has to be attached to a project proposal submission to ESA. The request outcome is provided after project proposal evaluation and feasibility analysis.

ESA is offering access all Proba-V products for research and development free of charge

• Level 1C
• Level 3 S1, S5 and S10 at 100, 333m and 1Km resolution

All level 1C (NRT), all 1Km products (NRT), and all 333m and 100m products (older than 1 month) can be downloaded immediately after registration to the catalogue .
All 333m and 100m in Near Real Time are also offered by ESA (free of charge) , the access is granted after ESA project proposal acceptance (proposal submission)

• STANDARD (2A) / ORTHO READY STANDARD (OR2A)
• ORTHO READY STEREO
• MAP SCALE ORTHO 1:12.000 Orthorectified
• MAP SCALE ORTHO 1:50.000 Orthorectified

ESA will support as many high-quality and innovative European and Canadian projects as possible within the quota limit available, therefore only a limited amount of products can be made available to each project.

ESA, in collaboration with MDA, is offering free access to RADARSAT-1&2 data for R&D,both archived and new acquisitions for the following modes:

• ScanSAR Wide and Narrow (Single or Dual Pol)
• Wide (Single or Dual Pol)
• Fine (Single or Dual Pol)
• Standard (Single or Dual Pol)
• Extended High and Low (Single Pol)

ESA will support as many high-quality and innovative projects as possible within the quota limit available (In principle, no more than 20 products per project).This opportunity is open to European and Canadian Principal Investigators (PIs) + Chinese PIs of an accepted Dragon project.
Since June 2019 ESA has simplified the procedure to apply for RADARSAT TPM data by including them to the Data Service request.

ESA is offering RapidEye (RE) data for Research and Application development:

• RapidEye ESA archive (online access, fast registration)
• RapidEye full archive Ortho Products:L3A orthorectified and geometric corrected products resampled at 5m spatial resolution (on demand, project proposal).

• RapidEye Time series for Sentinel-2
  *Two time series collected in preparation to the exploitation of Sentinel-2, with a 5 day revisit at high resolution : Feb. to June 2013 over 14 selected sites and Apr. to Sept. 2015 over 10 selected sites around the world.

• RapidEye South America.
  * A dataset of level 3A tiles covering more than 6 million km2 of South American countries: Paraguay, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay and Argentina

ESA is offering free of charge, for scientific research and application development, access to Resourcesat-1(formerly IRS-P6) archive and Resourcesat-2 archive & new acqs data. These products are available as part of the GAF Indian Satellite Imagery products from the following sensors:

• LISS-IV (Green, Red, NIR bands, 5.8m res.) - High res. multi-spectral
• LISS-III (Green, Red, NIR and SWIR bands, 23/70m res.) - Linear Imaging Self Scanning medium res. multi-spectral
• AWiFS (Green, Red, NIR and SWIR bands, 56/70m res.) - Advanced Wide Field Sensor coarse res., multi-spectral.

ESA will support as many high-quality and innovative projects as possible within the quota limit available, therefore only a limited amount of products can be made available to each project.

The European Space Agency gives access to the complete SEASAT dataset acquired by ESA,free of charge to the worldwide user community. The dataset comprises some of the first ever SAR data recorded for scientific purposes, reprocessed with the most recent processor. This SEASAT dataset is now available to the user community for the first time and still holds unexamined value, as only few data were digitally processed in the past.

• SAR Precision Image (SEA_PRI_1P)
• SAR Single Look Complex Image Product (SEA_SLC_1P)
• SAR Ellipsoid Geocoded Precision Image (SEA_GEC_1P)

ESA is offering free of charge for scientific research and application development access to the following SPOT collections:

• SPOT 1-7 ESA archive collections (online access, fast registration)
• SPOT 6-7 full archive & Tasking, all production levels single ,stereo or tri-stereo (on demand, project proposal)
• SPOTMaps 2.5m complete dataset (project proposal)
• Subscription for the access to OneAtlas Living Library (project proposal)

Availability and restrictions to the use of the above data is described in the ESA TPM T&C and in the Terms of applicability document linked below.

• TerraSAR-X ESA archive (online access, fast registration)


• Staring SpotLight (basic + Inteferometric pack)
• High Resolution SpotLight (basic and Ineterferometry pack)
• SpotLight (basic + Inteferometric pack)
• StripMap (basic + Inteferometric pack + Maritime pack)
• ScanSAR (basic + Maritime pack)
• Wide ScanSAR (basic + Maritime pack)

Except for the TerraSAR-X ESA archive collection (for which online access is granted), ESA will support as many high-quality and innovative projects as possible within the quota limit available, therefore only a limited amount of products can be made available to each project (20 max).

The European Space Agency gives access to the TropForest dataset, free of charge to worldwide usersSuch dataset results from the homonymous ESA Data User Element (DUE) project.The DUE is a programmatic component of the Earth Observation Envelope Programme (EOEP).
The TropForest project aimed to create an harmonized geo-database of ortho-rectified and pre-processed imagery based on satellite data acquisitions from High Resolution optical sensors (ALOS AVNIR-2, DEIMOS-1 SLIM6, KOMPSAT-2 MSC) performed during the years 2009 to 2011, for the Tropical Latin America (excluding Mexico) and for the Tropical South and Southeast Asia (excluding China), resulting in 1971 sites located at 1° x 1° geographical latitude/longitude intersections. The dataset available covers 1866 sites (94.7% of target sites).

• STANDARD (2A) / ORTHO READY STANDARD (OR2A)
• ORTHO READY STEREO
• MAP SCALE ORTHO 1:12.000 Orthorectified

ESA will support as many high-quality and innovative European and Canadian projects as possible within the quota limit available, therefore only a limited amount/nr. of sqkm of products can be made available to each project.
Availability and restrictions described in the Terms of applicability document linked below.

• European cities dataset - 40cm resolution / Optical Multi Spectral Radiometry High Resolution / level 3 .Coverage of the European most populated urban areas*. Collected during Feb. 2011 to Oct. 2013 - online access after authorization .

After registration authorized users will be enabled to download the products online without quota limitation.Please find details in the Terms of applicability.