About ESA Climate Office
The ESA Climate Office (ECO) is based in the UK at the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT) on the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire. The ECO manages the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI), an R&D programme establishing best-practice algorithms that combine data from past and on-going satellite missions (the long-term global Earth Observation archive). The ESA CCI algorithms create datasets of so-called Essential Climate Variables (ECVs), such as sea ice thickness or surface temperature. The ECO’s work on delivering ECV records to climate scientists supports the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by furthering our understanding of the Earth’s climate and contributing to building the global observing system. The “Climate from Space” competition is run within the framework of the CCI’s Knowledge Exchange activities (Theme iv). To find out more about the ESA CCI visit our website at http://cci.esa.int/
