European Remote Sensing Satellite 2 (ERS-2): Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data

The European Space Agency's Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instruments have been flown on board ERS-1, ERS-2 and the Advanced SAR (ASAR) on board Envisat. The ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat satellites, launched in 1991, 1995 and 2002 respectively, are ESA multi-payload, Earth observation satellites.

This dataset contains Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) data from the European Remote Sensing satellites ERS-2.

The ERS-1 mission began in 1991 and ended in 2000, and ERS-2 and Envisat are still ongoing. SAR provides high resolution images, ocean wave spectra data and wind direction vector data. They are available through the NEODC to UK based students only.

Date (Publication): 2007-08-09T13:52:04

Date (Creation): 2007-08-09T13:52:04

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a5b8bfb2cb9573a83137fcaf921fe96a

Identifier: NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / a5b8bfb2cb9573a83137fcaf921fe96a

Author

European Space Agency (ESA) - author

Custodian

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - custodian

NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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Distributor

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - distributor

NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

Principal investigator

European Space Agency (ESA) - principal_investigator

pointofContact

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - point_of_contact

NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

Publisher

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - publisher

NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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Keywords

ESA
SAR
satellite

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

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Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esasar.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic and specific use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

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Imagery base maps earth cover

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Begin date: 1995-05-31T23:00:00

End date: 1999-12-28T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Data are tar formatted ()

Distributor

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - Data Center Contact

NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

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Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data collected and prepared by ESA before a copy was obtained directly from ESA by NEODC for use by UK student community

File identifier: a5b8bfb2cb9573a83137fcaf921fe96a XML

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8

Parent identifier: ESA Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Advanced-SAR (ASAR) radar backscatter measurements b0decc428d6329dfc618cbe2cb569559

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-06-14T02:02:44

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Point of contact

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

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