European Space Agency (DBA European Space Agency|Agence Spatiale Européenne)
European Earth Watch Programme - Global Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables Element.  The following contribution has been awarded under the European Space Agency Contribution Program pursuant the Cooperation agreement signed between the Government of Canada and the European Space Agency (ESA). The European Earth Watch Programme is an ESA optional program. The objective of the Global Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables Element  program is to realize the full potential of the long-term global Earth Observation archives that ESA together with its Member states have established over the last thirty years, as a significant and timely contribution to the Essential Climate Variables (ECV) databases required by the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).