EUMETSAT

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EUMETSAT

• Monitoring Weather, Climate
• and the Environment

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EUMETSAT Objectives

• ... The primary objective is to establish,
  maintain and exploit European systems of
  operational meteorological satellites.
• A further objective is to contribute to the
  operational monitoring of the climate as well as
  the detection of global climatic changes.
• Furthermore, environmental issues which drive or
  are driven by meteorological conditions are
  considered.

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EUMETSATs Mission is.

• ... to deliver operational satellite data and
  products that
• satisfy the meteorological and climate data
  requirements
• of its Member States - 24 hours a day, 365 days a
  year, through decades.
• This is carried out according to the
  recommendations of
• the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

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20 Member States 10 Cooperating States
Member States
Cooperating States
Czech Republic
Bulgaria
Estonia
Hungary
Latvia
Iceland
Poland
Romania
Lithuania
Slovenia
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What We Do
Operations funded by EUMETSAT Member States ESA
provides some 20 of total system costs for
development
National European Meteorological Services
Operating Agency
European Space Industry
Private Enterprises, Value Added
Services, End-Users
Development and Procurement Agency
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Overview of the EUMETSAT Ground Segment
Jason-2 Optional Programme for Ocean Altimetry
EUMETSAT Geostationary Systems
Systems of the EUMETSAT/NOAA Cooperation
Data acquisition and Control
Pre-processing EUMETSAT HQ
Other Data Sources
APPLICATIONS GROUND SEGMENT
Meteorological Products Extraction EUMETSAT
HQ Darmstadt
Unified Meteorological Archive and
Retrieval Facility (U-MARF) EUMETSAT HQ Darmstadt
SATELLITE APPLICATION FACILITIES within the
Member States
Centralised processing and generation of products
Decentralised processing and generation of
products
Data Dissemination via EUMETCast
USERS
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EUMETCast is

• EUMETSATs Broadcast System for Environmental
  Data
• a highly configurable multi-service system,
  based on standard Digital Video Broadcast (DVB)
  technology and a combination of communication
  infrastructure
• the baseline dissemination mechanism for
  Meteosat and MetOp satellite data

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EUMETSATs Role as EUMETCast Service Management
Provider
Data
Service Management
DVB Broadcast
Data Providers
DWD
ECMWF
EUMETSAT
SAFs
Users
EUMETSAT DVB Uplink
Organisations, Universities, Private Users,
Industry Users
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EUMETCast Coverage
HB-6, Ku-Band Coverage
AB-3, C-Band Coverage
NSS 806, C-Band Coverage
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GEONETCast is
a global network of satellite based data
dissemination systems providing environmental
data to a world-wide user community. a
milestone in the emerging Global Earth
Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) that is
being coordinated by the intergovernmental Group
on Earth Observations (GEO), and is designed
to put a vast range of essential environmental
data at the fingertips of users around the globe.

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EUMETSATs Geostationary Satellite Coverage
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Comparing Image Quality
Images indicate Alpine snow coverage
MSG high resolution VIS Channel - 1
km (artificially coloured)
Meteosat-7 VIS Channel - 2.5 km
Meteosat-7 IR Channel - 5 km
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Combining Datasets from Various MSG Images
Hurricane Isabel September 2003
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Polar-orbiting Satellites
EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS)
EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) consists of a series
of three low flying MetOp satellites in polar
orbit, along with ground-based infrastructure.
The system will operate over a period of at least
14 years. Metop A was launched in October 2006
to provide support to operational meteorology and
climate change monitoring. Its instruments
deliver key imaging and atmospheric sounding data
e.g. temperature and humidity, wind speed, ozone
and trace gases - with unprecedented accuracy and
resolution. EPS data contribute to
oceanography, environmental sciences and Earth
system research.
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EUMETSAT Polar System
GRAS GPS Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding
GOME-2 Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
HIRS/4 High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
AMSU-A1 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A1
AMSU-A2 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A2
MHS Microwave Humidity Sounder
ASCAT Advanced SCATterometer
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Global Satellite System
Metop-A (EUMETSAT) MLST 0930
FY-1D (CHINA) MLST ca 0700
GOES-9 JAPAN (USA) 155E
MTSAT-1R (JAPAN) 140E
GOES-W (USA) 135W
GOES-N (USA) 90W
INSAT (INDIA) 93.5E
FY-2A (CHINA) 86.5E
GOES-E (USA) 75W
NOAA-18 (USA) MLST ca 1400
METEOR 3M (RUSSIA) MLST 1500
GOMS (RUSSIA) 76E
KALPANA-1 (INDIA) 74E
METEOSAT-6 (EUMETSAT) 67.5E
METEOSAT-8 (EUMETSAT) 3.4 W
METEOSAT-5 (EUMETSAT) 63E
METEOSAT-9 (EUMETSAT) 0 Longitude
METEOSAT-7 (EUMETSAT) 57.5 E
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EUMETSAT Space Segment
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02
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05
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08
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Meteosat First Generation Meteosat-5 Meteosat-6
Meteosat-7
IODC (63 E)
Rapid Scanning (10 E)
IODC Backup (67.5 E)
Primary Service (0 E)
IODC (57.5 E)
MSG Meteosat-8 Meteosat-9 Meteosat-10 Meteosat
-11 MTG
3.4 W
0
EPS MetOp-A MetOp-B MetOp-C Post-EPS
OSTM Jason-2 Jason-3
GMES Sentinel 3
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Programme Summary
Programme
Satellites
Period of Operation
MTP
Meteosat-5,-6,-7
13 years from December 1995
MSG
MSG-1,-2,-3, 4
16 years from 2002
Approved
EPS
Metop-1,-2,-3
14 years from 2006
OSTM
Jason-2
5 years from 2008
MTG
Not yet determined
from 2015
Post-EPS
Not yet determined
from 2019
Planned
OSTM
Jason-3
from 2012
GMES
Sentinel 3
from 2013
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EUMETSAT

• Monitoring Weather, Climate
• and the Environment