Receiving and Processing of Chinese Meteorological Satellites FengYun Data in the Regional Centre of Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences

* Corresponding author. **This research is supported by the Russian Foundation of Basic Research (grants 03-01-00812, 04-07-90350) and Presidium of Far-East Branch Russian Academy of Sciences. Abstract This paper is devoted to description of some experience in reception and processing satellite information of the Chinese meteorological satellites FengYun. Geostationary satellite FY-2B is an analogue of satellite GMS-5, which finished the work in springtime 2001. Active using of satellite FY-2B images is blocked by problem of “noisy” lines. Polar-orbital satellites FengYun1C/1D have ten spectral channels, five from which correspond to the NOAA/AVHRR channels and even have the same characteristics. In spite of advantages FY1C\1D satellites have a few imperfections. Some of them are: spatial mismatching of scan lines of the channel sensors; absence of calibration and noise filtration algorithms; absence of algorithms for chlorophyll-a estimation. Satellite FengYun problems are considered in the paper.