CEOS DATABASE ESA EARTH OBSERVATION THIRD PARTY MISSIONS PORTAL
Current and Heritage Missions
ESA Third Party Mission Programme
In addition to providing users with data from its own Earth observing (EO) satellites, the European Space Agency (ESA) has long provided users with access to a number of non-ESA EO missions - so called Third Party Missions (TPM).ESA's TPM scheme has operated for more than 40 years, providing EO data to users in Europe and around the world, and currently includes over 60 instruments on more than 50 missions. This reflects the needs of the majority of users who rely on a combination of EO data, both to increase sustainability of their services and to complement the range of observation parameters. ESA TPMs include missions still in operation as well as historical datasets (e.g., only archived data are available).
For these ESA Third Party Missions, the CEOS Database Mission and Instrument records include links to ESA TPM resources and data access. A mission timeline is also maintained to chart the availability of data for past decades and the future. The timeline can be filtered by mission status, instrument types, etc.
ESA Earth Online
Earth Online presents news and information on European Space Agency activities in the field of Earth observation. The website offers information about ESA's Earth Observation data, and the satellite missions and instruments that acquire this data. Visit...
ESA TPM Data Access Guide
This document helps users identify the various types of data that are available from these missions, the kinds of applications that the data may be used for, and, importantly, the practical procedures required for access, including registration, search, selection and retrieval of the data of interest. Read...
ESA TPM Timelines
This page presents a timeline of all current and heritage missions that are part of the ESA Third Party Missions (TPM) programme. Data from the CEOS Missions, Instruments and Measurements (MIM) Database is used to plot the timeline. More...ESA Third Party Missions
ALOS
ALOS was developed by JAXA and its applications include cartography, regional observation, disaster observation and resources surveying. More...
Aura
Aura is the chemistry mission of NASA with the overall objective to study the chemistry and dynamics of Earth's atmosphere from the ground through the mesosphere More...
Cartosat-1
Cartosat-1 (also known as IRS-P5) was operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and its applications focused on mapping India. More...
COSMO-SkyMed
COSMO-SkyMed is a four-spacecraft constellation, conceived by Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) with the overall objective of relevant data exploitation of global EO for military and civil community. More...
DMC First Generation
DMC is a constellation of microsatellites formerly coordinated by DMCii with an objective to provide frequent observations of Earth for monitoring disasters. More...
GeoEye-1
GeoEye-1 is an Earth-imaging satellite operated by Maxar Technologies of United States that was designed to be the world's highest-resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite. More...
GEOSAT-1
GEOSAT-1 (formerly Deimos-1) is an Earth-imaging microsatellite operated by GEOSAT Satellites with the objective to provide a global imaging capability at medium resolution (22 m) in three spectral bands. More...
GEOSAT-2
GEOSAT-2 (formerly Deimos-1) is the first European fully-private satellite capable of providing sub-metric multispectral imagery with a two day average revisit time worldwide. More...
GHGSat
The GHGSat constellation consists of GHGSat-D (Claire), GHGSat-C1 (Iris) and GHGSat-C2 (Hugo) with the aim to become the global reference for the remote sensing of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from any source in the world. More...
GOSAT
GOSAT is a Japanese climate change EO mission, developed by JAXA with the objective to provide monitoring of the sources and sinks of CO2 on a sub-continental scale in support of the Kyoto protocol. More...
GOSAT-2
GOSAT-2 also known as "IBUKI-2", is a JAXA satellite dedicated to observe levels of carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, water vapour in the atmosphere and also carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide levels. More...
GRACE
GRACE mission was a joint project between NASA and DLR with the primary objective to measure the Earth's gravity field and time variability with unprecedented accuracy. More...
ICEYE
ICEYE constellation consists of 14 X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites and is expected to grow to provide persistent monitoring capabilities with high rate of revisits and high resolution view of the Earth's surface. More...
Ikonos-2
Ikonos-2 was a high-resolution commercial imaging satellite operated by Maxar which carried MS and PAN instruments, known as the Optical Sensor Assembly (OSA). More...
IRS-1C/1D
IRS-1C and IRS-1D were two identical satellites from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) which contributed to support the national economy in the areas of agriculture, water resources, forestry and ecology, geology, water sheds, marine fisheries, coastal management, weather forecast and disaster management. More...
JERS-1
JERS-1 was a radar/optical mission led by JAXA with the overall objectives to generate global data sets aimed at surveying resources, establishing an integrated EO system, and verifying instrument/system performances. More...
KOMPSAT-1
KOMPSAT-1 application includes cartography, land use and planning, disaster monitoring, global marine resource and environmental monitoring, ocean contamination and chlorophyll detection. More...
KOMPSAT-2
KOMPSAT-2, also referred to as Arirang-2, was developed by KARI to provide continuity from the KOMPSAT-1 mission with the main objectives to provide surveillance of large-scale disasters and support disaster response. More...
Landsat-1/5
Landsat's Global Survey mission is to establish and execute a data acquisition strategy that ensures repetitive acquisition of observations over the Earth's land mass, coastal boundaries, and coral reefs. More...
Landsat-7
The Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) instrument was introduced with Landsat-7. ETM+ data cover the visible, near-infrared, shortwave, and thermal infrared spectral bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. More...
Landsat-8
The Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Scanner (TIRS) are the two instruments carried on board Landsat-8. More...
Oceansat-2
Oceansat-2 (a follow-on of IRS-P4/Oceansat-1) is an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) mission focused on oceanography and sea-ice monitoring, surface winds and ocean surface strata, ocean colour, suspended sediments, atmospheric aerosol etc. More...
Odin
Odin is a minisatellite mission led by Sweden, with Canada, France and Finland as partners. The mission objectives include astronomy and aeronomy applications, including atmospheric research: observation of stratospheric ozone chemistry and so on. More...
PlanetScope
The PlanetScope satellite constellation consists of multiple launches of groups of more than 130 individual cubesats (DOVEs) in order to image nearly all of Earth's land everyday. More...
Pleiades-1A/1B
Pleiades is a two-spacecraft constellation of CNES, introducing advanced technologies in EO and delivering very-high optical resolution imagery (0.5 m). More...
Pleiades Neo
Pleiades Neo, initially also known as VHR-2020, is a four-satellite very high resolution Earth observation satellite constellation by Airbus Defence & Space designed as a follow on to the Pleiades-HR satellites. More...
Proba-1
The Proba-1 mission was originally an ESA technology demonstration mission, started in mid-1998 and funded within the frame of ESA's General Support Technology Programme. More...
QuickBird-2
QuickBird-2 was an Earth-imaging satellite designed to be the world's highest resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite. More...
RADARSAT-1
RADARSAT-1 was Canada's first commercial EO satellite and was developed to monitor the planet's natural resources and environmental changes. More...
RADARSAT-2
RADARSAT-2 is a jointly funded satellite mission of CSA and MDA, representing a Canadian government/ industry partnership in a commercial venture. More...
RapidEye
RapidEye was a constellation of five minisatellites commercial EO mission, operated by Planet Labs and its applications include agriculture, forestry, energy and infrastructure. More...
ResourceSat-1
ResourceSat-1, also known as IRS-P6, was an EO mission in the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS) series of Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO). More...
SAOCOM
The SAOCOM (Satelite Argentino de Observacion Con Microondas) satellite series represents Argentina's polarimetric L-band SAR constellation of two spacecraft (SAOCOM-1A/1B), operated by CONAE (Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales). More...
SciSat-1
SciSat-1 is a CSA atmospheric science mission carrying the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment-Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) instrument. More...
POES
The POES program is a cooperative effort between NASA, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), and their international partners: France (CNES), Canada, the United Kingdom (UK), and EUMETSAT. More...
METOP
The MetOp program is planned as a series of three satellites to be launched sequentially over an observational period of 14 years, starting in 2006 with MetOp-A (2010, 2014), it represents the space segment of EPS. More...
SeaSat
SeaSat was a NASA/JPL experimental EO mission launched in 1978 that carried the first space borne SAR to collect more information about the oceans than had been acquired in the previous 100 years of shipboard research. More...
SkySat
SkySat is a constellation of 21 high-resolution Earth imaging satellites owned and operated by the commercial company Planet. More...
Spire
Spire constellation is composed of more than 100 LEMUR nanosatellites with each satellite having a multi-payload to collect global radio frequency data in near-real-time. More...
SPOT 1,2,3
The SPOT EO system is designed by CNES and operated by Spot Image/Airbus Defence and Space and has been offering exceptional temporal coverage. More...
SPOT 4
In March 1998, SPOT 4 joined the SPOT family, bringing with it new capabilities, including the VEGETATION instrument and upgraded HRV imagers (HRVIR). More...
SPOT 5
In May 2002, SPOT 5 was added to the SPOT family offering enhanced capabilities due to its improved resolution and provided an ideal balance between high-resolution and wide-area coverage. More...
SPOT 6,7
SPOT 6 and 7 form an EO constellation, together with Pleiades-1A/1B, improving on the imaging capacity of their predecessor SPOT 5, while ensuring SPOT data continuity. More...
TerraSAR-X
TerraSAR-X is a German SAR Satellite mission and its objective is to make multi-mode and high-resolution X-band radar data available for a wide spectrum of applications. More...
WorldView-1,2,3 & 4
The WorldView series consists of 4 high resolution commercial Earth imaging satellites owned by Maxar with the objective to meet the growing commercial demand for high resolution satellite imagery. More...