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
- ESA/Copernicus Sentinel-5p Automated Validation Server
- ESA/Copernicus Sentinel-5p Validation Data Analysis Facility
- EUMETSAT AC SAF validation services: ozone, trace gases, surface UV
- NOAA Products Validation System (NPROVS)
- SCIAMACHY Validation and Interpretation Group (SCIAVALIG)
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
- Agence spatiale canadienne / Canadian Space Agency (ASC-CSA)
- Belgian Science Policy - Space Research and Applications (BELSPO)
- German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- National Satellite Meteorological Center of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA/NSMC)
- Russian Federal Space Agency
- Swedish National Space Board (SNSB)
- World Meteorological Organization Space Programme (WMO-Space)
