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Geostationary satellites operate in a height of 36000 km and provide high temporal resolution. In contrast polar satellites are found closer to the surface…

Lecture by Marianne Koenig (EUMETSAT) on the phyiscal principles of radiative transfer and remote sensing.

Lecture by Andreas Wirth on data aquisition and data processing to obtain rich and useful satellite images.

Satellite instruments measure at various wavelenghts. Since atmospheric gases reveal different proporties when being measured at different wavelengths, this…

Geostationary satellites enable to closely monitor the weather development at selected locations. This is particularly important for nowcasting convection…

The Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) is one of the new-generation European instruments carried on MetOp and will be used to determine information about the…

A low altitude polar orbit is widely used for monitoring the Earth because each day, as the Earth rotates below it, the entire surface is covered. Typically…

The Global Instability Index (GII) product is one of the MSG meteorological products and describes the instability of the clear atmosphere by a number of…