Monitoring of land surface albedo dynamics is important for the understanding of observed climate trends. Recently developed multidecadal surface albedo data products, derived from a series of geostationary satellite data, provide the opportunity to study long term surface albedo dynamics at the regional to global scale. Reliable estimates of temporal trends in surface albedo require carefully ...

The aim of the study is the individuation of convective cells over the Italian peninsula with the conjunction use of geostationary satellite data (METEOSAT, MSG satellite) in the IR and WV channels and lightning data. We will use GCD (Global Convective Diagnostic) algorithm developed at Aviation Weather Centre (AWC) of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). This algorithm is ba...

considering a) that performance objectives for digital mobile-satellite channels using narrow-band modulation and geostationary satellites should include an allowance for interference levels among and within systems operating in the 1-3 GHz range, as well as comply with user requirements for performance; b) that “general purpose” digital mobile-satellite channels may be used by land, maritime a...

The United States of America’s future geostationary satellite series, beginning with GOES-R in a 2012 timeframe, will be a major advancement in geostationary observing capability. GOES-R’s major meteorological observing instruments are an Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) with up to 16 channels, a lightning mapper, and a Hyperspectral Environmental Suite (HES) that is comprised of a hyperspectral ...

The Regional Atmospheric Modeling and Data Assimilation System (RAMDAS) is a 4 dimensional variational analysis (4DVAR) data assimilation algorithm (Zupanski et. al. 2004) developed at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University (CSU). The current version of RAMDAS assimilates satellite observations from the Geostationary Operational Environmenta...

Satellite data are essential for monitoring clouds and radiative fluxes where ground-based instruments are unavailable. On April 24, 2003, the ninth geostationary operational environmental satellite (GOES-9) began operational coverage of the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP), replacing the failing fifth geostationary meteorological satellite (GMS-5). The GOES-9 imager provides the opportunity for ...

This paper presents the 1ST RELY project which aims at Integrating Satellite Digital Radio Broadcasting (S-DB), terrestrial cellular technology and EGNOS satellite navigation

The article is devoted to the estimation of threshold values, regulated by ITU, which determine the necessity of satellite networks coordination in the Ku band. Maximum capacity of geostationary orbit (GEO) for different diameters of earth station antennas, operating in standard DVB-S2 accounting the limitations caused by the parameters of existing satellite networks equipment, is determined. O...