The post ENVISAT strategy. The ESA Earth Explorer and Earth Watch missions

Author

Readings, Christopher J.

Author_Institution

Earth Sci. Div., Eur. Space Res. & Technol. Centre, Noordwijk, Netherlands

Volume

2

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

1050

Abstract

The European Space Agency is currently in the process of defining a long term strategy for its Earth Observation Programme. This envisages two lines of missions, namely the Earth Explorer and Earth Watch missions. The former will basically be concerned with the needs of the research community while the latter will focus on operational requirements. This article provides a description of some of the atmospheric, oceanographic and solid Earth geophysical programmes

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; geophysical techniques; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; EOP; ESA Earth Explorer; Earth Observation Programme; Earth Watch; European Space Agency; apparatus instrument equipment; atmosphere; geophysical measurement technique; land surface; meteorology; ocean; satellite remote sensing; sea; terrain mapping; Earth; Extraterrestrial measurements; Gravity; Land surface; Monitoring; Oceans; Sea measurements; Solids; Space technology; Steady-state; Watches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521135

Filename

521135