Revisit the Living Planet Symposium02 July 2010
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Revisit the Living Planet Symposium02 July 2010 More than 1400 scientists and users from around the world gathered this past week in Bergen, Norway, for ESA’s Living Planet Symposium to present their latest findings on Earth's environment and climate using data from observation satellites. Selected...
Great strides for GMES23 July 2010
Great strides for GMES23 July 2010 While the recent Living Planet Symposium focused mainly on the latest findings on Earth's environment and climate using data from Earth observation satellites, it also provided the forum to present the progress that the GMES initiative has made since...
Scientists talk about ESA’s ‘workhorses’ in space06 July 2010 While much of the focus of ESA’s Living Planet Symposium was on the recently launched Earth Explorers, the 19-year heritage of the ERS and Envisat missions served as the scientific backbone throughout the symposium.
Image of the day: Volcanic uplift02 July 2010
Image of the day: Volcanic uplift02 July 2010 This Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar interferogram over the Kenyan section of the Great Rift Valley shows small surface displacements that are not visible to the naked eye of the Longonot (front right). In the background is Suswa volcano, wh...
CryoSat-2 exceeding expectations01 July 2010
CryoSat-2 exceeding expectations01 July 2010 Today, participants at the Living Planet Symposium have been hearing about ESA's most recently launched mission, CryoSat-2. In orbit for almost three months, the satellite is in excellent health with scientists very encouraged by the first ice-thickne...
SMOS shines at symposium30 June 2010
SMOS shines at symposium30 June 2010 Today, a focus at ESA's Living Planet Symposium is on the innovative SMOS mission, which recently became operational. Early results are proving very encouraging with its first observations due to be released in early July.
