Meteosat Images of Europe

General Info

Title:	Meteosat Images of Europe
Type:	Data Entity
Sub-Type:	Measurement
Abbreviation:	METEOSAT
Publication State:	published
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URI:	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dataent_METEOSAT

Summary
A brief description of the data.

Visible and infra-red images of the North Atlantic Ocean, Europe and North Africa from the Meteosat geostationary satellite. Images are archived from 11th November 1999 to June 2006. These images are public.

Content
The actual data being described by this document. NB, in the case of data granules, this content may just be a reference to an ingested CSML or CDML file.

Introduction

Meteosat-7 and its predecessors were the first generation of earth observation dedicated geostationary satellites located at 36000 km above the intersection of the Equator and the Greenwich Meridian. Although superseded by MSG-1 (renamed Meteosat-8) in 2005, Meteosat-7 remained as back-up at 0^o longitude until 14th June 2006. Meteosat-7 will be moved to 63^oE longitude to continue coverage of the Indian Ocean and take over from Meteosat-5.

Meteosat-7 was launched by the European Space Agency and operated by Eumetsat.

Data were collected every half hour in three wavelength channels for visible, infra-red and water vapour images.

Data Access

Meteosat data files are directly accessible from here through our data browser. Alternatively, you can retrieve them by anonymous FTP. If you need help on downloading the data from the Web or transferring them via FTP, please refer to our Help section.

All Meteosat images in our archive are subject to EUMETSAT copyright. It is a condition of data use that all images used should include EUMETSAT's copyright credit displaying the text "Copyright EUMETSAT" on each image.

Data availability and file format

Images were received in this way until a technical fault at Nottingham resulted in the service being suspended.

Full-disc images of the Meteosat view field were subsequently received from the Eumetsat archive in Germany. Visible, infra-red and water vapour, full-disk GIF-format images are available from 27th August 2003 until 14th June 2006. Jpeg images covering orthern Atlantic, Europe and North Africa have been obtained from EUMETSAT to fill the gap in the archive between October 2002 and August 2003.

Documentation and Links to further information and references

Eumetsat in Darmstadt.The primary source of information on Meteosat and Meteosat Second Generation (MSG), Eumetsat also offers a range of services including a developing Meteorological Archive and Retrieval Facility (MARF).
Meteosat at the University of Nottingham.
This site no longer receives data but retains and archive of previous images as well as links to other sources of information.
Meteosat Second Generation at the European Space Agency.

Citation

Date of citation

Who to contact

For queries about these pages and difficulties in data retrieval, please contact the BADC help desk.
About Meteosat operations: see the EUMETSAT help desk web pages.

Lineage
Summary of the origins of the dataset, e.g.: "Dataset produced from NASA MODIS instrument on Terra and collected at the University of York's groundstation 1999-2003 and a copy provided to NEODC in June 2007".

The Data held at the BADC are images of that portion of the Meteosat view field encompassing Northern Atlantic, Europe and North Africa, in all available channels (visible, thermal and water vapour infra-red bands). From 11th of November 1999 until 31st October 2002 these images were daily mirrored from the Meteosat archive at the University of Nottingham. The images include zooms of Northern Atlantic and Europe in the visible band and are provided in JPEG format. Images were received in this way until a technical fault at Nottingham resulted in the service being suspended. Full-disc images of the Meteosat view field were subsequently received from the Eumetsat archive in Germany. Jpeg images covering Northern Atlantic, Europe and North Africa have been obtained from EUMETSAT to fill the gap in the archive between October 2002 and August 2003.

Quality Statement
Description of the relative quality of the dataset.

Images are from the operational METEOSAT archives held by EUMETSAT

Author
The principal author of the actual underlying data. Only one author can be specified per atom; if there are multiple authors, these should be specified as 'contributors'. NB, an atom MUST have an author specified.

Name	email
EUMETSAT	http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/AboutEUMETSAT/Contact_Us/index.htm?l=en

Online References
Online references with a specific relationship to the data being described here. NB, if links are supplied they must be valid and include the transport protocol - e.g. 'http://blah.co.uk'. Also, note, three online references can be added at once; after these are added a further three may be specified - and so on.

Relation	Title
Download	METEOSAT Data Directory
Logo	METEOSAT Logo
Documentation	EUMETSAT website

Parent Data Entity
Define the parent of this record. There should probably only be one parent, but this is not enforced.

No data specified at present

Sub Data Entities
Lists all entities which have the current entity as their parent.

None

Associated Deployments

Parameters - summary

VISIBLEIMAGERY	VISIBLEWAVELENGTHS	ENGINEERING	SPECTRAL
EARTHSCIENCE	EARTH SCIENCE	NULL	MICROWAVEIMAGERY
MICROWAVE	INFRAREDIMAGERY	INFRAREDWAVELENGTHS

Parameters - details
Parameters to describe the data - with vocab URL and term IDs for further classification. Note, three parameters can be added at once; after these are added a further three may be specified - and so on.

Label	Vocab Term URL	Vocab Term ID
VISIBLEIMAGERY	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
VISIBLEWAVELENGTHS	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
ENGINEERING	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
SPECTRAL	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
EARTHSCIENCE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P131	NULL
EARTH SCIENCE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P111	GCAT0001
NULL	general_units	0
MICROWAVEIMAGERY	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
MICROWAVE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
INFRAREDIMAGERY	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
INFRAREDWAVELENGTHS	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL

Data Coverage
Summary of the temporal and spatial data coverage for the data.

Spatial coverage
Max Y: 90.0
Min X: -90.0	Max X 90.0
Min Y 90.0

Temporal coverage
Start Date:	1999-11-11
End Date:	2006-06-16

Spatial resolution

No spatial resoultion information available.

Vertical extent

No vertical extent information available.

Responsible Parties
Parties responsible for the metadata - e.g. data curator. Responsible parties can have a role specified to make their function clearer. Multiple responsible parties can be specified.

Role	Name	URI
Data Curator	badc.nerc.ac.uk	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk

Other Info
Other miscellaneous information. Note, update frequency relates to the update frequency of the underlying data, not the metadata.

Dataset language

English

Update frequency

notPlanned

Links and Services
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