Knowledge Centre on Earth Observation

Oceans are essential ecosystems for our planet, yet they face threats from climate change, pollution, and other human-caused factors. The UN Decade of Ocean Science...

Data from the Lightning Imager instrument on the first of EUMETSAT’s Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites is now being disseminated for operational use

The 6 th IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) conference organised by the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)...

The Copernicus satellite missions currently in orbit provide invaluable data that feed a vibrant ecosystem of Earth Observation products and services across diverse application areas. Copernicus...

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (*C3S) and the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (*CAMS) held their annual General Assemblies back-to-back in Brussels in June. At the events, experts...

Following months of meticulous testing to ensure that it will deliver first-class data on air quality around the world, the new Copernicus Sentinel-5 instrument has been...

The three-year ECMWF-coordinated project for a prototype system for a Copernicus CO 2 service (CoCO2) to monitor anthropogenic CO 2 emissions worldwide has concluded its ambitious...

Following an intense period of work from scientists across the climate community, anticipation is building as the release of the European State of the Climate (ESOTC) 2023 report draws near. This year’s...

While satellite imagery has been available since the 1980s, there have been significant recent additions to the list of available sources of Earth Observation data. Copernicus...

An ESA-funded project is showing the benefits of using raw Copernicus Sentinel-2 data and artificial intelligence to improve response times in early warning systems for catastrophic events. An abundance...