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Thursday, 28 March 2013 07:34

EARS System

the EARS system is a Eumetsat project for data retransmission. 'EARS' means 'Eumetsat Advanced Retransmission Service'.

The object of the EARS system is to provide the European meteorological community with sounder data covering data-sparse areas, within 30 minutes of the instrument observations.

EARS comprises three separate polar satellite instrument data services:

  • the existing EARS-ATOVS;
  • the EARS-AVHRR;
  • and the pilot EARS-ASCAT.

Each of the EARS services retransmits observations from an instrument, or an instrument group, and aims to provide a homogeneous service across the NOAA and Metop polar orbiting satellite platforms.

System Overview:
  

 satellite -> NOAA KLM NOAA NN' METOP
EARS-ATOVS HIRS/3
AMSU-A
AMSU-B
HIRS/4
AMSU-A
MHS
HIRS/4
AMSU-A
MHS
EARS-AVHRR AVHRR/3 AVHRR/3 AVHRR/3
EARS-ASCAT - - ASCAT

 

 

 

 

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