Suggested Further Reading

• National Research Council. (2004). Climate data records from environmental satellites: Interim report. National Academies Press. (https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/10944/chapter/1)

• Hollmann, R., Merchant, C. J., Saunders, R., Downy, C., Buchwitz, M., Cazenave, A., … & Wagner, W. (2013). The ESA climate change initiative: Satellite data records for essential climate variables. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 94(10), 1541-1552. (https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00254.1)

• Plummer, S., Lecomte, P., & Doherty, M. (2017). The ESA climate change initiative (CCI): A European contribution to the generation of the global climate observing system. Remote Sensing of Environment, 203, 2-8. (original link to the publisher website: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.014; open copy from ESA: https://climate.esa.int/media/documents/Plummer_ESA_CCI_RSE_article_2017.pdf)

• Anderson, K., Ryan, B., Sonntag, W., Kavvada, A., & Friedl, L. (2017). Earth observation in service of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Geo-spatial Information Science, 20(2), 77-96. (https://doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2017.1333230)

• Committee on Earth Observing Satellites (2023). Use Cases for Climate Monitoring from Space (https://ceos.org/news/wgclimate-use-cases/).