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Calibration and validation and Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM)

Improving EUMETSAT product quality through calibration and validation and Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM)

Example Fiduceo products

Example Fiduceo products

Effective L1 calibration and L2 product validation is essential for the maintenance and improvement of data quality, supported by specific Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM) where appropriate.

Last Updated

26 January 2022

Published on

27 August 2020

Operational missions

Metop

Validation of the Polar Multi-Sensor Aerosol product (PMAp)

Meteosat

Developing deep convective cloud reference model for vicarious calibration
Impact of undetected clouds on image navigation quality assessment
Using the Moon as a reference for long term stability assessment of optical sensors

Sentinel-3

Copernicus Ocean Colour vicarious calibration infrastructure
Ocean Colour System vicarious calibration tool
Thermal infra-red product inter-comparison and validation with FRM radiometers
Towards fiducial reference measurements of sea-surface temperature by European drifters (TRUSTED)

Future missions

CO2M

Ground-based network capacities analysis for CO2M

MTG

ISS-LIS data analysis based on LMA networks in Europe
Planning of LMA campaigns in Africa for LI cal/val

Multi-mission

Support to Microwave Scatterometer measurements during MOSAiC
Validation of spectral band adjustment factors using lunar hyperspectral measurements

Science activities

Science studies

Scientific studies for the evolution of operational products suite and for the development of new products.

Operational algorithms

The core of any EUMETSAT operational product is its scientific algorithm.

Science plans for future missions

Science plans for the future missions - EUMETSAT Polar System-Second Generation (EPS-SG) and Meteosat Third Generation (MTG).

Mike in a conference room

Science meetings and workshops

Fostering scientific exchanges.

EUMETSAT headquarters

Research Fellowships

Building scientific relationships and supporting young scientists.

Science documents

Science documents

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