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Utilising specialist expertise from the Member States, Satellite Application Facilities (SAFs) are dedicated centres of excellence for processing satellite data.
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The LSA SAF exploits remotely-sensed data on land, land-atmosphere interactions and biosphere applications.
Nowcasting is a weather forecast for the next few hours, based on current information.
The OSI SAF provides comprehensive information on the ocean-atmosphere interface.
The AC SAF processes satellite data on ozone, other trace gases, aerosols and ultraviolet data.
The ROM SAF generates and archives high-quality GNSS Radio Occultation (RO) data for NWP.
The Central Facility is responsible for the generation of level 1 data and level 2 products.
The NWP SAF supports the interface between satellite data and European activities in NWP.
The EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) ground station is located on Spitsbergen, Svalbard.
The CM SAF generates and archives high-quality climate datasets.