ScatSat-1 wind products from OSI SAF on EUMETCast soon
ScatSat-1 Wind products from OSI SAF will be available on EUMETCast from 7 February 2019.
11 April 2022
24 January 2019
The products are ScatSat-1 25 km (OSI-112-a) and 50 km (OSI-112-b) scatterometer winds, in BUFR and netCDF format. The ScatSat-1 satellite was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and carries the OSCAT scatterometer. ISRO kindly provides the near-real time data which are used as input for the OSI SAF wind products.
The products will be distributed on EUMETCast Europe and EUMETCast Africa.
EUMETCast Europe, Basic Service
Channel: SAF-Global
PID: 300
Multicast address: 224.223.222.32
EUMETCast Africa
Channel: A1C-SAF-1
PID: 100
Multicast address: 224.223.225.3
Example filenames
25 km swath grid spacing
BUFR product
W_NL-KNMI-DeBilt,SURFACE+SATELLITE,SCATSAT-1+OSCAT_C_EHDB_20181211124750_11692_o_250_ovw_l2.bin
NetCDF product
W_NL-KNMI-DeBilt,SURFACE+SATELLITE,SCATSAT-1+OSCAT_C_EHDB_20190119020116_12251_o_250_ovw_l2.nc.gz
50 km swath grid spacing
BUFR product
W_NL-KNMI-DeBilt,SURFACE+SATELLITE,SCATSAT-1+OSCAT_C_EHDB_20181211124750_11692_o_500_ovw_l2.bin
NetCDF product
W_NL-KNMI-DeBilt,SURFACE+SATELLITE,SCATSAT-1+OSCAT_C_EHDB_20190119011122_12250_o_500_ovw_l2.nc.gz
ScatSat-1 Wind Product User Manual
Visualise the 25 km product
Visualise the 50 km product
Users already subscribed to OSI SAF products via EUMETCast will receive these new products automatically. Other users wishing to receive these products should register via our Earth Observation Portal (EOP).
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