The launch of the Copernicus project became especially urgent after Europe lost contact with its Earth observation satellite Envisat in 2012 after 10 years. Sentinel-3 makes use of multiple ...

At Gabon's International Centre for Medical Research, for example, Ghislain Moussavou has been using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Envisat satellite to help predict outbreaks of Ebola ...

Scientists reveal warm ocean temperatures are rising faster than expected and warming oceans driven by climate change and ...

A new satellite-based study shows it's possible to protect 30% of Atlantic Ocean habitats with minimal disruption to shipping and fishing.

European satellite Envisat radar imagery confirms that the B-15A iceberg ? the world's largest floating object ? is adrift once more in Antarctic waters after two months aground on a shallow seamount.

Detailed knowledge of the construction and functioning of satellite-borne atmospheric instruments is accordingly essential. In the case of SCIAMACHY on ENVISAT, this understanding is also used to ...

Instead of installing as many measurement instruments as possible on a single satellite, as was the case with ENVISAT, each orbiting Sentinel satellite has its own measurement process. For reasons of ...