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EUMETSAT Calibration/Validation 

activities and systems 

Hans Bonekamp 

Francois Montagner 

Sentinel-3 Calibration and Validation Planning Meeting 

ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, 20-22 nd March 2012

Outline 

1. EUMETSAT in Operational Oceanography 

2. Sentinel-3 embedded in the overall systems at 

EUMETSAT 

3. EUMETSAT Sentinel-3 Cal/Val activities 

Cooperation with ESA 



EUMETSAT: European space data provider for 

Operational Oceanography 

Why? 

1. Core Meteorological Services increasingly require operational 

oceanography. Matter of scale, coupled models. 

2. Numerical Ocean Weather Services, .e.g., GMES MCS, are 

currently set up as fully operational services. 

3. Climate monitoring: Ocean major component of the climate 

system. 

“Good data services mean calibrated and validation data services” 


Sentinel-3 Cal Val Workshop, ESRIN, 20-22 March, 2012 


EUMETSAT: European space data provider for 

Operational Oceanography 

Operational Marine Products: 

• SST, Sea Surface Winds, Sea Ice – Mandatory programs (MSG, EPS) future (MTG, EPS SG) 

• Significant Wave Height, wind speed and Sea Surface Height – Optional program (Jason) 

• Ocean Colour, SST, Sea Surface Height – Third party program GMES Sentinel-3 

• Third party activities: relevant data from other missions (NOAA, ISRO, Chinese SOA) 

EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility for 

Ocean and Sea-Ice (OSI SAF) 

• SST, sea-ice, scatterometer winds, radiative fluxes 

• product development, processing and NRT distribution 

• http://www.osi-saf.org 


Sentinel-3 Cal Val Workshop, ESRIN, 20-22 March, 2012 


MTG: continuity and progress in geostationary orbit 

1977 2002 

Dec. 2017 and June 

2019 

Observation mission: 

- MVIRI: 3 channels 

Spinning satellite 

Class 800 kg 

MOP/MTP MSG 

MOP/ 

MTP 

Observation missions: 

- SEVIRI: 12 channels 

- GERB 

Spinning satellite 

Class 2-ton 

Implementation of the EUMETSAT Mandate 

for the Geostationary Programme 

MS 

G 


ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, 20-22 nd March 2012 

MTG-I and MTG-S 

Observation missions: 

- Flex.Comb. Imager: 16 channels 

- Infra-Red Sounder 

- Lightning Imager 

- UVN 

3-axis stabilised satellites 

Twin Sat configuration 

Class 3.5-ton 

Atmospheric Chemistry Mission (UVN-S4): 

via GMES Sentinel 4 

Slide: 5

EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) 

Partners: 

Polar-orbiting satellites 



Europe’s first series of polar-orbiting satellites for 

operational meteorology consists of three Metop in low 

Earth orbit to operate over a period of at least 14 years. 

unprecedented accuracy; huge impact in various 

applications 

Metop-A (launched in 2006) 

• carries imaging and sounding instruments 

• direct broadcasting and data collection capabilities 

• significant contribution to the Global Observing System 

and the monitoring of climate and atmospheric 

chemistry. 

Metop-B (Launch May 2012) 

Intense ongoing 

Cal/Val activities 

EPS –SG (in approval process) 

• Second Generation EPS ready in 2018 

• two satellite configuration being studied with 

distributed payloads for the two satellites 

• Payload to include GMES Sentinel-5

Monitoring the oceans and climate in 

partnership 

High precision altimetry 

Partners: 

Jason-2 

• launched in June 2008 

• EUMETSAT’s first optional programme 

(new convention) 

• Applications: marine meteorology, 

operational oceanography, seasonal 

prediction and climate monitoring 

Jason-3 (EUMETSAT/NOAA Lead) 

• under development, to provide continuity 

with Jason-2 

• launch scheduled in April 2014 

Jason-CS 

• future programme under discussion with 

ESA, EC, NOAA in the context of GMES 

• To provide continuity after Jason-3 



Monitoring the oceans within GMES: Sentinel 3 



EUMETSAT: 

To operate the Sentinel-3 satellite for the European 

GMES programme (Global Monitoring for Environment 

and Security) during the routine operations phase. 

– Further response to the operational needs of the 

European marine (and climate) community. 

Mandate 

• Operationally monitor and control Sentinel-3 platform 

and payloads (S-3A and S-3B) 

• Operationally process and distribute instrument data 

and marine products 

• Provide support to the marine user community 

Slide: 8 

*ultimately under ESA responsibility

S3 Marine Centre 

Cooperate with ESA on 

Calibration/Validation, Product Development 



Data sources distributed 

via EUMETCast 

EUMETSAT 

EUMETSAT SAF 

Network 

ECMWF 

NOAA/NESDIS 

NASA 

VITO 

WMO 

Other 

Deutscher 

Wetterdienst 

Meteo France 

EUMETSAT as a global data provider 

European Uplink 

Service 

Local/National 

users 

American 

Turnaround 

Service 

EuroBird-9 Users in 

Europe 

WMO/GTS 

African 

Turnaround 

Service 



AtlanticBird-3 

NewSkies-806 

Users in 

America 

Users in 

Africa

• EUMETSAT Product Navigator 

EUMETSAT EO portal 

• central data discovery service for all EUMETSAT data and products 

• http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/DataProducts/ProductNavigator/ 

• data search and data ordering 

• distribution from the long term archive 

• subscription to EUMETCast dissemination services 



helpdesk: 

ops@eumetsat.int

Cal Val Activities (project) 

Payload Data Ground Segment 

• supporting ESA in PDGS procurement 

• supporting ESA in procuring processor prototypes 

• Supporting ESA in procuring Mission Performance Monitoring Facility (MPMF) 

Sentinel-3 calibration and validation plan 

• Joint development of the Phase E1/E2 Cal/Val plan 

• => Presentation Helge Rebhan 

• What? (Why? Who? Where? When?) 



Cal Val activities (project) 

Setting up the Mission Performance Infrastructure 

• Re-use of existing approaches (e.g. from EPS) 

• Build up and free up the inhouse expertise! 

• Supporting ESA in procuring Mission Performance Centre ITT 

• Defining the ‘Joint Mission Performance Centre’ see link with 

Presentation Bojan Bojkov 



EUMETSAT Cal/Val Activities (community) 

Sentinel-3 calibration and validation workshop 

• 20-22 March 2012, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy 

• http://congrexprojects.com/12m17/introduction 

EUMETSAT meteorological satellite conference 

• Session on satellite-based observations of the oceans, including those from 

Sentinel-3 

• 3-7 September 2012, Sopot, Poland 

• http://www.conferences.eumetsat.int 

Joint Call to Commission the S3 Validation Team 

• => next Presentation Craig Donlon 

• ? Link with the overall Mission Performance Infrastructure 



Mission Performance: Work in an International context 

Sea Surface Temperature: 

• Group for High Resolution SST (GHRSST) 

• CEOS SST Virtual Constellation (SST-VC) 

Ocean Colour: 

• International Ocean Colour Coordination Group (IOCCG) 

• CEOS Ocean Colour Radiometry Virtual Constellation (OCR-VC) 

Sea Surface Height: 

• Ocean Surface Topography Science Team (OSTST) 

• Ocean Surface Topography Virtual Constellation (OST-VC) 

Ocean Surface Vector Winds: 

• International Ocean Vector Winds Science Team (IOVWST) 

• Ocean Surface Vector Winds Virtual Constellation (OSVW-VC) 

Operational Oceanography: 

• GODAE Oceanview 

• ECMWF, MET services, WMO, IOC 



EUMETSAT Cal/Val Orientation 

• User Service Orientation 

• Operational Orientation 

• Cooperation with ESA 



EUMETSAT 

“We need your feedback, input 

and support.” 

Happy Workshop ! 



ackup 



EUMETCAST AMERICAS 

NSS-806, C-BAND 

EUMETCast coverage 

EUMETCAST EUROPE 

EB-9, KU-BAND 

EUMETCAST AFRICA 

AB-3, C-BAND

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