General
Data
Organisation
Meteosat
Metop
Sentinel
Ground Segment
MSG
Satellite Applications Facility (SAF)
Sentinel-3
Metop-SG
2020
May
Utilising specialist expertise from the Member States, Satellite Application Facilities (SAFs) are dedicated centres of excellence for processing satellite data.
The Central Facility is responsible for the generation of level 1 data and level 2 products.
The EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) ground station is located on Spitsbergen, Svalbard.
The Sentinel-3 ground segment comprises of a number of interconnected sites with different responsibilities.
The EUMETSAT Mission Control Centres (MCC) are responsible for the safe operations of all our satellites.
The EPS-SG ground segment will support the ground functions required to meet the EPS-SG missions objectives.
Primary Ground Stations (PGS) supporting the MSG satellites.
Ground-based infrastructure necessary to support the operation of our satellites.