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jose.prieto@eumetsat.int
Access to EUMETSAT and
EUMETCast data
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Overview
1. EUMETSAT Data and Products
2. Delivery Mechanisms: EUMETCast and the Archive
3. User Support: service registration
4. Earth Observation Portal: the Product Navigator
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Access to data and products
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Access_to_Data/index.htm
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Data (level 1) and Products (level 2)
- EUMETSAT Satellites (Geostationary and Low Earth Orbit)
– Meteosat: continuous since 1981
» 0 degree (Met-9)
» Rapid Scanning (European sector Met-8)
» Indian Ocean Data Coverage (Met-7,6)
– Metop-A from 2006
» Global Data Service (Svalbard dumps)
» EARS Regional Data: ATOVS, AVHRR, ASCAT, IASI
» Direct reception AHRPT (in low space radiation areas)
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Data and Products
• Third-Party satellite data through partnerships or agreements
– NOAA (subset GOES, POES data in NRT or offline)
– JMA and CMA geostationary data coverage of Asia-Pacific
in near-real-time. Future CMA FY-3 polar data
– MODIS channels and products (fires, winds, ocean color)
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Data and Products
• Derived products (levels 2 and 3)
– From the Ground Segment :
• Jason-2 NRT Geophysical Data Record from 2008
• Centrally produced + from Satellite Application Facilities (SAF)
• Land, Marine and Atmosphere
• Third-Party Derived products (level 2/3)
– EU Framework Programme 7 :
• DevCoCast (INPE, Brazil; Marine Laboratory, UK; VITO, Belgium)
• AIDA (CSIR, South Africa)
• MIAVITA (VolcanoCast)
– GEONETCast GEOSS products :
• NOAA-NESDIS; NASA-SERVIR; US EPA; RANET
– GMES products:
• GEOLAND2, MyOcean, MACC, SAFER, GMOSAIC
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User access to data
1. EUMETSAT data subject to licence (mostly a formality, not a restriction)
• Level 1 products from Meteosat and Metop
• Archived level 1 and level 2
2. EUMETSAT data not subject to licence (open access)
• Level 2 Eumetsat and Jason-2 products
• SAF level 2 products in NRT
3. Third-party open access products
• GOES satellite data
• NASA-SERVIR products
4. Third-party restricted access products
• Data Collection Service
• VITO Vegetation for Africa
• DWDSAT
• Basic Meteorological Data (including ECMWF T4 charts and GRIB products)
• RETIM complete sets (administration by Météo-France)
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EUMETSAT delivery mechanisms
- EUMETCast
- Archive
- Global Telecommunications System (GTS)
- Web pages (NRT images and products loops)
- FTP over Internet
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EUMETCast definition
EUMETSAT dissemination of environmental data
• Multicast of data files to targeted audience
• Wide audience and global coverage
• Scalable, to cover large and small volumes of data
• Low cost and user-friendly satellite receiving equipment
• European component of GEOSS GEONETCast
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EUMETCast System
EUMETCast dissemination
Eurobird-9
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EUMETCast users
National Meteorological Service 30
University/Research/Educational 290
Government Institution 12
International Organisation 4
Commercial 100
Private Users 1480
Total
Operational delivery system since Nov 2002
Total number of user worldwide - 2,152
Total number of stations worldwide - ca. 2,400
Categories of users within EUMETSAT Member States (Europe):
Status: 2008
2016
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EUMETCast data
EUMETSAT Satellite Data – Meteosat + Metop
Third Party Satellite Data GOES (USA) + MTSAT (Japan) + FY2 (China)
Meteorological and oceanographical Products (inc. SAFs)
Products on EUMETCast:
In-situ observations
Numerical Weather Forecasts
Atmosphere – 48
Marine – 20
Land – 16
Services available on EUMETCast-Europe
Status: June 2008
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EUMETCast stations
Users around the world
June 2008
Number of accounts
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Data streams in EUMETCast
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Includes MODIS global Fire product (HDF)
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Delivery Mechanisms: Archive
• EUMETSAT Unified Archive and Retrieval Facility (UMARF) includes on-line
catalogue and user service
Metadata for
Cataloguing
Products
User
Search
Browse
Order
Formatting & media
delivery workshop
PFD
MSG Ground Segment
MTP Ground Segment
EPS Ground Segment
Near line archive
on tape
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Archive philosophy
• Funding from long-term programmes
• Inheritance of archive from one programme to the next
• Multi-mission infrastructure:
– Meteosat since 1981. Growing archives for MSG
– Metop and Jason-2
– reprocessing campaigns and climate monitoring
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User Support
• User Helpdesk – ops@eumetsat.int
• User Notification Service (UNS)
• Product Navigator
• Archive offline data order processing
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EUMETSAT Earth Observation Portal
Through individual accounts, users get access to:
– Product navigator with metadata
– User registration and product subscription (July 2009)
– Data Ordering (later 2009)
– Link other portals (2010)
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EUMETSAT Earth Observation Portal
Acronyms:
-HMA: Heterogeneous
Mission Access (ESA)
-GISC: Global Information
System Center (GTS)
-G/S: Ground Station
To other Portals:
ESA, GEOSS, etc.
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Between image and product
30% of channel 3.9µm on top of HRV
2006-July-7 16:00
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Training on Land applications
Brasilia, Course on Land applications of Satellites. Dec 2008
Sofia, Drought and fires. Sep 2009
Maputto, Use of satellite products to monitor the soil. Nov 2009
Yearly course in English or French on land use, starting 2010
Biennial workshop on Drought and Fire applications, 2011
