Real-time provision of news and documentation relating to ERS-2 via In
ternet - that is a new service that ESRIN, ESA's centre in Italy, is n
ow offering. The special ERS-2 service gives new momentum to the utili
sation of the World Wide Web and file-transfer utilities that have bee
n maintained by ESRIN for over a year now to provide attractive, onlin
e information retrieval and publishing services to the Earth-observati
on community around the world.