NOAA
(3/2009)
- has the World's Longest Experience with Environmental Data from Space

Understanding the Earth
(3/2009)
The prevailing view of NASA is mainly concentrated around spectacular missions to the International Space Station, to the moon and beyond etc., but NASA is much more. NASA also manages the world's most advanced and most comprehensive programmes for observations on. The organization operates fifteen satellite missions that produce close to 4 terabytes of data every day. Through these satellite sensors, NASA operates and controls the world's largest scientific data and information system for collecting, processing, archiving, and distributing earth system data to users worldwide.

Reliability and Near Real Data - a demand from the users.
(1/2009)
Data receiving via Kongsberg Satellite Services network

Kopernikus
(1/2009)
- Focus on Environment and Climate

The OSI SAF - Global Sea Ice Monitoring for Operational Weather and Ocean Forecasting
(1/2009)
Numerical weather prediction (NWP) which is the backbone of modern weather forecasting needs daily accurate updates of earth surface parameters. One of these parameters is sea ice. The variations in sea ice impact the ocean-atmosphere fluxes of heat, momentum and water, and thereby the development of both local as well as large scale weather systems.

Use of IASI data in the IPY-THORPEX/Norway
(1/2009)
IASI – new sensor onboard the MetOp/A Satellite

We visit: Goddard Space Flight Center
(1/2008)

"Media Day" at ESTEC
(1/2008)
GOCE is introduced to the international media

The Landsat Data Continuity Mission
(3/2007)
a guarantee for a continuous Earth observation data set

GOCE
(3/2007)
Improving the understanding of high latitude ocean circulation

"Satellites are, and will probably still be, the most important tool for climate observations."
(3/2007)
Professor Ola M. Johannessen Nansen Environment and Remote Sensing Center

Radarsat-2 - Secure a continuous flow of radar data
(1/2007)
When RADARSAT-2 is launched in the near future the continuous flow of data from the SAR sensors on the satellites will be prolonged for several years. Continuous data flow is very important in order to pay attention to evolution in the nature, such as the climate, ice and snow covering etc. The Nordic countries, like all countries at high latitudes have greatly benefited from this type of satellites; thus we look forward to the operative phase with great expectations.

Projected future climate in the Arctic
(1/2005)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in 2001 that man-made emissions of so-called "greenhouse gases" most likely are leading to global warming, and that the temperature incrase probably will be at maximum at high northern latitudes.

Temperature variations at Svalbard during the last century
(1/2005)
Only a few meteorological observation series in the high Arctic are available during the last 100 years. Fortunately one of those series is located on Spitsbergen.

New satelllites for monitoring the polar environment
(1/2005)
Two types of satellite earth observation sensors are particularly interesting for monitoring the polar environment: Synthetic Aperture Radar and Radar Altimetry.

Why Star Trackers On-Board the CryoSat Satellite?
(1/2005)

Monitoring the ocean climate with Argo floats
(1/2005)
The ocean climate has traditionally been monitoring with measurements from ships. Research vessels, advanced instruments and skilled technical personnel are then needed to acquire high quality data.

How altimetry works
(1/2005)

Climate changes in the Arctic:
(1/2005)
Consequences for the rest of the World.

SCISAT: Canada's scientific satellite mission
(1/2005)
From dawn to twilight.

Sea Level Analyses using ENVISAT
(4/2001)
For more than a decade remote sensing has successfully been used to monitor the ocean surface and has provided valuable information about the dynamics of the worlds oceans and the marine gravity field. Even though two satellite missions carrying radar altimeters are currently in operation, sea level variability is still observed that cannot be fully explained due to insufficient coverage.

Norwegian Computing Center's ENVISAT AO projects
(4/2001)
The Norwegian Computing Center's Remote Sensing Group (NCC) is involved in three ENVISAT AO projects. The themes of the projects correspond to key research areas in NCC: automatic detection of marine oil spill, snow monitoring for natural resource and climate applications, and land vegetation monitoring by spectrometry.

NIVA and the ENVISAT project
(4/2001)
The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) participate in the geophysical validation of the products from one of the ENVISAT sensors. NIVA contributes in the validation of the MERIS sensor (Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) and takes part in the MERIS and AATSR Validation Team.

Monitoring natural resources in West Africa using ENVISAT data
(4/2001)
Proper management of natural resources in developing countries requires that information on the state and changes in a range of biopsyical parameters is available. In the drylands of Africa, management of scarce water and vegetation resources is of key importance.

ENVISAT will overload us with data - are we prepared to cope with it?
(4/2001)
Its suite of ten Earth observation sensors will allow the scientific community to simultaneously map the land, oceans and atmosphere of our planet with instrumentation covering a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum and mapping technologies.

Plans for use of ENVISAT data at DNMI
(4/2001)
DNMI, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, participate in a larger EU-funded project, EnviWave. The overall aim of the projects is to improve the usefulness of ocean wave information derived from Envisat ASAR, Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar, and RA-2, Radar Altimeter, within applied oceanography, ocean climatology, and meteorology.

GOMOS - Global ozone profiler
(4/2001)
GOMOS will measure ozone and trace gases in the atmosphere by detecting the absorption of starlight in UV, visible and infrared wavelengths.

Sea-truthing of MERIS using optical data from the open Baltic Sea
(4/2001)
The marine remote sensing group at Stockholm University is part of the MERIS-ATSR validation and calibration team (MAVT). The objective is to deliver sea-truthing data for the cal/val activities for MERIS derived from an optical station in the open Baltic Sea.

Ocean Waves and Winds from ENVISAT ASAR Wave Mode
(4/2001)
Ocean wind and wave measurements from satellites combined with numeral global wave and atmospheric models are dramatically changing our way of obtaining ocean wave information both for operational and climatological purposes.

Two ENVISAT projects related to Nordic applications, sea ice and boreal forest
(4/2001)
Microwaves, not sensitive to cloud cover or sun illumination, are important for remote sensing at Nordic latitudes. The Arctic ice cover and the boreal forests are extensive areas important for the living conditions and sensitive to climate changes at these latitudes. ENVISAT offers new possibilities to detect and follow possible changes e.g. due to the greenhouse effect.

ENVISAT preparations at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment
(4/2001)
Space-based maritime monitoring and surveillance has been a focus area for the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) for over a decade. Throughout the ERS and RADARSAT-1 era, FFI has performed applied research that helped establish today's operational services for radar satellite-based oil spill and fisheries monitoring in Norway.

Norwegian Space Centre and the ENVISAT-programme
(4/2001)
As a member of the European Space Agency, ESA, the Norwegian Space Centre started potential participant activities in the ENVISAT-programme in 1991. On behalf of Norway the ENVISAT declaration was signed in 1992. The Norwegian Space Centre has worked with the ENVISAT programme for more than ten years, and Norway has through the Norwegian Space Centre paid approx. 200 MNOK for the participation in the ENVISAT programme since the start.