Biomass mission kit Explore ESA’s forest mission

Image: This very high-resolution image captures the Egyptian city of Giza and its surrounding area, including the world-famous Giza Pyramid Complex.

Copernicus for Land Degradation, Agriculture, and Food Security sonia Fri, 18/04/2025 – 08:54 Date: 23–25 April 2025 Time: 10:00–12:00 CEST | 11:00–13:00 EAT Location: Online Language: English Host: Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD)    Join us for a three-day webinar focused on leveraging Copernicus data for sustainable land management, agriculture, and food security. The webinar…

Satellite observations show that sea-surface temperatures over the past four decades have been getting warmer at an accelerated pace.

WEkEO Essentials – Webinar series FlorianZedek Thu, 17/04/2025 – 16:28 WEkEO is hosting a 3-part webinar series tailored for beginners and designed to support and inspire Earth Observation communities across the globe. Whether you’re a first-time user or just getting started with environmental data, this series will guide you in confidently exploring, accessing, and using data…

OBSERVER: Europe’s Warmest Year on Record—Striking Climate Contrasts in 2024 evan Thu, 17/04/2025 – 14:45 The European State of the Climate 2024 (ESOTC 2024) report, jointly published on 15 April by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), reveals that 2024 was the warmest year, both for Europe and globally, since…

Registrations are now open for the European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium (LPS) – one of the largest Earth observation conferences in the world. The event will take place on 23–27 June 2025 in Vienna, Austria.

With the launch of ESA’s Biomass satellite scheduled for 29 April, preparations at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, have reached a key milestone. The satellite has now been sealed inside the protective fairing of the Vega-C rocket – now hidden from view, the satellite is almost ready for its journey into space.

Video: 00:00:53 Meet Biomass – ESA’s next Earth Explorer mission to launch. Carrying the first P-band synthetic aperture radar in space, this new mission is set to deliver crucial information about the state of our forests and how they are changing, and to further our knowledge of the role forests play in the carbon cycle.