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

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a5b8bfb2cb9573a83137fcaf921fe96a

Citation identifier: NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / a5b8bfb2cb9573a83137fcaf921fe96a

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
European Space Agency (ESA)	unknown	Author
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)	neodc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)	neodc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
European Space Agency (ESA)	unknown	Principal investigator
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)	neodc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)	neodc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Dataset

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.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover

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

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

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Name	Version
Data are tar formatted

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)		neodc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a5b8bfb2cb9573a83137fcaf921fe96a	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esasar/ers_sar/ER2/	DOWNLOAD

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

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

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File identifier: a5b8bfb2cb9573a83137fcaf921fe96a XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

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

Date stamp: 2025-07-15T02:02:57

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)		neodc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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