Watch live: Latest results from GOCE

At the event, experts will discuss the contribution of ESA’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer – GOCE – to our knowledge of ocean circulation, solid Earth physics, upper atmosphere and geodesy.

Estimates of and variations in Antarctic land ice mass measured by GOCE will also be presented. Particular focus will also be given to the improved measurements obtained during the satellite’s ‘second mission’ when its super-low orbit was lowered even further during its final year of life.

Live webstream programme (all times in CET):

10:30  Welcome address by Wendy Watson-Wright, Assistant Director General and Executive Secretary of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

10:35  ESA representative provides an overview of ESA’s Earth observation activities and the GOCE mission

10:40   Address by Pascale Ultré-Guerard, Head of Earth Observation at CNES

10:50  ESA’s Jerome Benveniste outlines the workshop objectives

10:55  ESA’s Rune Floberghagen discusses the GOCE mission’s flight operations and main contributions to scientific research

11:15  Address on oceanography with GOCE by Marie-Helene Rio from the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the Italian National Research Council 

11:35  Imaging Earth’s interior with GOCE explained by Isabelle Panet from France’s Institut Géographique National

11:55   Rene Forsberg from the Danish National Space Institute discusses the geodesy of Antarctica with GOCE

12:15  Address on GOCE’s contribution to upper atmospheric research by Eelco Doornbos from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands

12:35  Rory Bingham from the University of Bristol looks ahead to the next phase of GOCE oceanographic research

13:00  Press event with Marie-Helene Rio, Isabelle Panet, Rune Floberghagen and additional representatives from ESA and CNES, followed by a question and answer session