What is ERS?
ESA's two European Remote Sensing (ERS) satellites, ERS-1 and –2, were launched into the same orbit in 1991 and 1995 respectively. Their payloads included a synthetic aperture imaging radar, radar altimeter and instruments to measure ocean surface temperature and wind fields. ERS-2 added an additional sensor for atmospheric ozone monitoring. The two satellites acquired a combined data set extending over two decades.
The ERS-1 mission ended on 10 March 2000 and ERS-2 was retired on 05 September 2011.
Latest Mission Operations News
Bulk Dissemination service for ERS/Envisat (A)SAR - Resumed14 February 2020The issue affecting the bulk download service on the ESAR OADS i.e. the ERS and Envisat (A)SAR data dissemination tool has been fixed, and the bulk ordering feature resumed. An urgent maintenance activity has been started at 17:00 CET on the OADS system, affecting the ERS and Envisat (A)SAR data dissemination via the On-The-Fly (OTF) infrastructure. OADS - OTF maintenance on 18 November 201915 November 2019Due to a scheduled maintenance, access to the OADS-OTF online dissemination systems for ERS / Envisat data and Third Party Missions (TPM) datasets will be unavailable on Monday 18 November 2019 during the following time frames:
Special Features
Greenland ice loss quickening06 December 2018Using a 25-year record of ESA satellite data, recent research shows that the pace at which Greenland is losing ice is getting faster. 
On solid ground03 December 2014Lovers of architecture and history can rest easy: the stability of historical buildings can now be monitored in real time by a new technique with its roots in space. Pine Island retreat on the radar27 March 2014Twenty years of radar coverage from ESA satellites have been used to measure the rapid thinning of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier - and it's losing more ice than previously thought. 
GlobIce: mapping the movement of sea ice14 March 2012An ESA-funded project to model sea ice dynamics using archived radar data from the Envisat and ERS missions has released its first validated datasets for the Arctic winters of 2004-11. Mapping sea ice displacement is key for climate research. 
Best of ERS: 20 years of observing Earth28 September 2011Watch the celebration and scientific workshop on the legacy of the two ERS satellite missions. The events were held on 27 September at ESRIN, ESA's centre for Earth observation, in Frascati, Italy. 
Celebrating 20 years of ERS13 July 2011These images of Rome and its surroundings were acquired by ERS-1 and ERS-2 during their long service around the globe, providing valuable information to the scientific community for 20 years. 
ESA's old EO missions perform sophisticated new tricks29 April 2009Envisat and ERS-2, ESA's two veteran Earth missions, have completed a second tandem observation campaign. The technique involved flying the two satellites in precisely coordinated orbits, generating valuable new radar data for modelling Arctic terrain. |
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