Satellite Related Resources
Satellite Validation Resources
| Aerosol, Clouds and Trace Gases Infrastructure (ACTRIS): Cal/Val data access, facilities and services relevant for air quality, climate and ozone satellites and model evaluation |
| Atmospheric Toolbox: CODA, HARP, VISAN and QDOAS toolsets |
| CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites): international coordination, publications, data stewardship, tools, information systems |
| CEOS Cal/Val Portal: best practices, Cal/Val data access, Cal/Val sites, FRM projects, terms & definitions |
| ESA Atmospheric Validation Data Centre (EVDC): Cal/Val data, GEOMS format, FLEXTRA trajectories, ECMWF maps, overpass tool |
| ESA Envisat CAL/VAL database at NILU |
| HDF-EOS Tools and Information Center / HDF Explorer software |
| NASA/GSFC Aura Validation Data Center (AVDC) |
| Quality Assurance framework for Earth Observation (QA4EO): guidelines, documentation, resources, case studies |
| QA4ECV Terms and Definitions applicable to the quality assurance of Essential Climate Variable data records |
Satellite Validation Services
Validation Reference Measurements
| Aerosol, Clouds and Trace Gases Infrastructure (ACTRIS): single entry point to data from multiple instruments and networks, relevant for air quality, climate and ozone |
| Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET): columnar aerosol optical depth (AOD) |
| Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE): surface concentration (coastal + mountain) measurements of long-lived trace gases (33 compounds) |
| CEOS Pseudo Invariant Calibration Sites (PICS): sites charaterized for surface BRDF, spectral and atmospheric properties, and temporal stability |
| COllaborative Carbon Column Observing Network (COCCON): column-averaged abundance of CO2, CH4,H2O, and CO by a network of EM27/SUN FTIR spectrometers |
| Fiducial Reference Measurements for Ground-Based DOAS Air-Quality Observations (FRM4DOAS): column O3 and tropospheric NO2 profile data |
| GCOS Reference Upper Air Network (GRUAN): radiosonde data |
| Halocarbons & other Atmospheric Trace Species (HATS): O3 depleting substances and greenhouse gases |
| Hyperspectral radiometer network (HYPERNETS): water and land bi-directional refflectance measurements for validation of VIS, NIR and SWIR satellites |
| Micro-Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET): aerosol and cloud vertical structure, boundary layer height |
| Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC): air quality, greenhouse gases, H2O, O3 and O3 depleting substances, spectral UV, temperature... measurements by networks of Brewers and Dobsons, FTIR and UV-Vis DOAS spectrometers, lidars, MW radiometers, ozonesondes, and UV spectroradiometers |
| Pandonia Global Network (PGN): column measurements of HCHO, NO2, O3, and SO2 by a network of DS-DOAS spectrometers |
| Radiometric Calibration Network (RadCalNet): Top-of-Atmosphere spectrally-resolved reflectances (380 to 2500 nm) at 10 nm sampling |
| Southern Hemisphere ADditional OZonesondes (SHADOZ): ozonesonde profile data in the tropics |
| Solar Radiation Network (SolRad-Net): high-frequency total solar flux (305-2800 nm), PAR (400-700 nm), UV-visible irradiance (305-695 nm) |
| Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON): column-averaged abundance of CO2, CH4, N2O, HF, CO, H2O, and HDO |
| Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network (TOLNet): ozone profile lidar measurements from near the surface to the top of the troposphere |
Satellite Overpass Predictors and Data Access
| ESA Atmospheric Validation Data Centre (EVDC) orbit prediction tools and overpass data access for AEOLUS, Copernicus Sentinels, Envisat, EOS, GOSAT, MetOp, OCO... |
| EU Copernicus Space Component Data Access (CSCDA) |
| EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Atmospheric Composition Monitoring (AC SAF) |
| GOSAT Data Archive Service (GDAS) |
| ICARE Overpass Predictor for Aqua, Calipso, Cloudsat, Parasol and Envisat |
| IPSL IXION Orbit Predictor for EOS, FengYun, HIMAWARI, JPSS, Meteor, MetOp, MSG... |
| NASA Aura Validation Data Center (AVDC) overpass data access for Aura, Envisat, MetOp, SBUV/2, Suomi-NPP... |
| NASA/GSFC EarthData Atmospheric Composition (GES DISC) |
| NASA/LARC EarthData Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) |
| NASA/GSFC Ozone and Air Quality |
| NOAA NESDIS Joint Polar Satellite System (STAR JPSS) |
| NOAA NPROVS Orbital Display System (ODS) |
Programs and Missions
| CEOS Database: missions, instruments, measurements and datasets |
| EO Portal: Earth Observation satellite missions catalogue |
| ESA Earth Online: ESA Earth Observation programme |
| EU Copernicus Space Component: Sentinels and Contributing Missions |
| NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) |
| NOAA-NASA Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) |
| WMO Observing Systems Capability Analysis and Review Tool (OSCAR): programmes, instruments, satellite status, gap analysis |
Space Agencies