Due to a delay in the delivery of auxiliary data all the CryoSat near real time production (i.e. FDM, NRT and NOP data) may be suffering from degraded quality starting from validity date 22 April 2020.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. For Earth-observing satellites, every day is Earth Day. While news of COVID-19 dominates headlines and many of us practice social distancing, there still remains the need for action on climate change – and satellites are vital in providing the key facts on this global issue.  

Due to a planned software maintenance, the ESA On-The-Fly (OTF) Earth Observation products dissemination infrastructure will be unavailable according to the following schedule:

• Third Party Missions data dissemination – Wednesday 22 April 2020 from 09:00 to 10:00 CEST
• ERS and Envisat (A)SAR data dissemination – Wednesday 22 April 2020 from 10:00 to 12:30 CEST
• SMOS data dissemination - Thursday 23 April 2020 from 09:00 to 10:00 CEST

The current Earth Online website, which has been around for some 30 years as the main provider of scientific-technical information on Earth Observation (EO) activities carried out by ESA, is due to change—on 27 April it will take on a whole new dimension.

Due to a planned software maintenance, the ESA On-The-Fly (OTF) GOCE and ALOS PALSAR products dissemination infrastructure will be unavailable on Monday 20 April 2020.

The European Space Agency (ESA), the Institut Français pour la Recherche et l'Exploitation de la MER (IFREMER) and the French company OceanDataLab are pleased to announce a new operational service called "SMOS Wind Data Service" which provides, in near real time (NRT), surface wind speed over the ocean derived from the brightness temperature measurements of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite mission.

Reflecting the growing use of Earth observation, a software toolbox that provide users with the tools they need to process satellite data has been downloaded more than 500 000 times in less than five years.

Swarm L1B data gaps registered in the past have been recovered by using the last L1B operational processor. A full list of recovered Swarm data gaps is now available.

A scheduled software maintenance will affect the ESA EO Catalogue (EO CAT) on Thursday 16 April from 09:00 to 13:00 CEST.

ESA is seeking proposals for a new activity aimed at the operational generation and distribution of a collection of CryoSat ThEMatic PrOducts (Cryo-TEMPO) in the areas of sea ice, polar oceans, land ice, coastal areas and hydrology. This activity will build on multiple previous research and development projects and will support a wide community of end-users.