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Scientific algorithms

The core of any EUMETSAT operational product is its scientific algorithm

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Behind every EUMETSAT product is a scientific algorithm, which is continuously refined, developed, and validated with the state of the art science.

Last Updated
07 January 2026

Published on
19 August 2024

To ensure that the end-user needs are met, EUMETSAT maintains the quality of its operational products through the continuous assessment and evolution of its scientific algorithm baselines.

As an example, the Polar Multi-sensor Aerosol product (PMAp) provides daily satellite-derived measurements of aerosol optical depth (AOD) over the land and oceans. Aerosols are solid or liquid particles in the atmosphere (e.g. smoke or dust) and AOD is the used to identify the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere.

PMAp was developed at EUMETSAT and is based on a retrieval algorithm that that combines measurements from three Metop instruments: Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME-2), Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), and Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI).

Find out more about the algorithms behind PMAp and other products below.

MetopSentinel-3EPS-SG

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PMAp NRT Synergy Aerosol product
Piece-wise Linear Regression (PWLR) Algorithm for IASI

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Copernicus Sentinel-3 NRT Fire Radiative Power (FRP)
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S3 LSR - Sentinel-3 Optical pre-calculated Land Surface Reflectivity Auxiliary Product

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L1C co-registration algorithm for 3MI

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