abstract:The Living Planet Programme (LPP) ESA's Living Planet Programme European Space Agency is a programme within the European Space Agency which is managed by the Earth Observation Programmes Directorate. LPP consists of two classes of Earth Observation missions (see list below) including research missions known as Earth Explorers, and the Earth Watch class of missions whose objective is to develop support operational applications such as numerical weather forecasting or resource management.
Looking tothe future, the newstrategy for ESA's LivingPlanetProgrammeaims toassessthe mostimportant Earth-science questions to beaddressed in theyearsto come.