Ocean colour opportunities from Meteosat Second and Third Generation geostationary platforms

The Meteosat Third Generation Infrared Sounder

This paper considers only the IRS mission, for which the highest priority is on atmospheric dynamics in support to Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) at regional and global scales. This will be achieved through the provision of Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMV), to be extracted from tracking of horizontally and vertically resolved water vapour patterns, retrieved from the hyperspectral radiances...

Determination of circumsolar radiation from Meteosat Second Generation

Reliable data on circumsolar radiation, which is caused by scattering of sunlight by cloud or aerosol particles, is becoming more and more important for the resource assessment and design of concentrating solar technologies (CSTs). However, measuring circumsolar radiation is demanding and only very limited data sets are available. As a step to bridge this gap, a method was developed which allow...

Meteosat Second Generation Cirrus Detection Algorithm MeCiDA

Scenes Analysis for the Meteosat Third Generation Infrared Sounder Observations

The Image Processing Facility for METEOSAT Second Generation

The first METEOSAT Second Generation satellite will come into service in 2001. It will acquire image data in 12 spectral channels with a total data volume of 265 Mbytes every 15 minutes. These data are received, processed, and distributed by the EUMETSAT Ground Segment in real-time. The Ground Segment architecture is composed of blocks of grouped functionality called facilities. The Image Proce...