LSA SAF Satellite Application Facility on Land Surface

LSA SAF Satellite Application Facility on Land Surface Analysis Carla Barroso

Land Surface Analysis SAF LSA-SAF Main Objective Satellite Products Ø Land Surfaces & Land-Atmosphere interactions Ø focusing primarily EUMETSAT satellites

LSA SAF Consortium 10 Institutions/ 8 Countries IPMA (Portugal) – Leading Institution MF RMI (France) (Belgium) IDL KCL KIT UV VITO ARSO NIMH (Univ Lisbon) (King’s College London) (Karlsruhe Inst Technology) (Univ Valencia) (Flemish Inst Technological Res) (Slovenian Env Agency) (Bulgarian Inst Met and Hyd) IPMA Host ü Distributed Product Development & Validation: All ü Data Production, Archiving & Dissemination: IPMA, VITO

LSA SAF Portfolio - MSG Surface Radiation Budget DSSF DSLF LST ALBEDO Surface Short-wave Flux Land Surface Temperature Surface Long-wave Flux Vegetation State Fraction Vegetation Cover f. APAR LAI LSE Land Surface Emissivity Wild Fires Water Stress Fire Detection Fire Risk Map Evapotranspiration Fire Radiative Power Reference Evapotranspiration

LSA SAF Portfolio - Metop Surface Radiation Budget Vegetation State Fraction Vegetation Cover LST Land Surface Temperature LSE ALBEDO f. APAR LAI NDVI Land Surface Emissivity Wild Fires Water Stress Fire Detection Fire Risk Map Fire Radiative Power

Land Surface Analysis SAF LSA-SAF products generation Ø Near real time Ø Data records (2004 -2015) Ø MSG Land Surface Temperature Ø MSG Fire Radiative Power Ø MSG Daily & 10 -daily Surface Albedo Ø MSG Daily & 10 -daily Fraction of Vegetation Cover Ø MSG Daily & 10 -daily Leaf Area Index Ø MSG Daily & 10 -daily Fraction of Photosynthetic Active Radiation Ø Normalized Difference Vegetation Index CDR since 2008

Land Surface Analysis SAF LSA-SAF products data characteristics Ø MSG derived products: Geostationary projection Ø Metop derived products: Sinusoidal projection (~1 Km x 1 Km) Ø Data Format: HDF 5 http: //lsa-saf. eumetsat. int