Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, the European Geoscience Union (EGU) has officially announced the cancellation of the EGU General Assembly 2020 in Vienna, Austria, which will be replaced by the ‘EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online' (#shareEGU20) initiative.

ESA is pleased to announce the online release of the ALOS Wide Area Observation Mode (Burst Mode 1) collection, which will complete the existing ALOS PALSAR data offer.

As part of the ongoing commitment to realise new satellite missions that advance our understanding of Earth, contribute to climate research, benefit society and demonstrate innovative space technologies, ESA soon expects to release a Call for Ideas for Earth Explorer 11, pending approval from Member States at the Programme Board for Earth Observation.

The COVID-19 pandemic is evolving rapidly all around the world and impacts strongly most European Countries. Therefore, when possible, the Swarm teams located in different European countries have been asked to work from home in order to limit contamination risks. 

We would like to inform Swarm data users that the daily generation of EEF Level-2 product and their dissemination through the nominal folder has been restored.

ESA is organising an Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing with the focus on Earth Observation (EO) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Forestry, to be held at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering (FGG), Slovenia, from 21 to 25 September. 

We would like to inform Swarm data users that precise orbits and attitude quaternions for the year 2019 for the CASSIOPE/e-POP satellite are now available on the Swarm dissemination server in the following folders:

• /#CASSIOPE_e-POP/Precise_Orbit_Data
• /#CASSIOPE_e-POP/Precise_Attitude_Data

The ESA Atmospheric Validation Data Center (EVDC) has been updated, introducing new tools and upgrading existing functionalities for the exploitation of users interested in accessing both Cal/Val data and satellite products for specific missions.

Due to the recent spread of the COVID-19 virus in Europe, the Organising Committee decided to postpone the CryoSat 10th Anniversary Science Conference to ensure the safety of all participants. The conference has been rescheduled to 5-8 October 2020 and will be taking place in Taormina, Sicily.

According to a new report, Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice six times faster than in the 1990s – currently on track with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's worst-case climate warming scenario.