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Go to topicUsing space to benefit citizens and meet future challenges on Earth
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Go to topicEarth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. In this second edition, we look at a Landsat-5 image of the intertidal Wadden Sea and reclaimed lands in the Netherlands. ESA has recently opened archived Landsat data for use by the scientific community, free of charge.
See also ESA - Observing the Earth - Earth from Space: Reclaimed lands to download the image.