The ESA published today an article named CryoSat ice data now
open to all. From the article: ""As of today, the international
science community will have free and easy access to all of the
measurements from CryoSat. This will amount to a unique dataset
to determine the impact climate change is having on Earth's ice
fields." [...] Launched in April last year, CryoSat and the
ground processing set-up have shown to be in excellent working
order. [...] CryoSat carries a sophisticated radar altimeter
that can measure the thickness of sea ice down to centimetres
and detect changes in ice sheets, particularly around the edges
where icebergs are calved from the vast ice sheets that cover
Greenland and Antarctica." The Canadian Space Agency announced
that RADARSAT-1 mosaics are now accessible to the general
public. From the announcement: "For the last 15 years,
RADARSAT-1 has observed the Earth from space. Over time, the
satellite has generated an impressive collection of images, some
of which were used to produce hig