EUMETSAT Ocean & Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility

For complementing its Central Facilities capability in Darmstadt and taking more benefit from specialized expertise in Member States, EUMETSAT created Satellite Application Facilities (SAFs), based on co-operation between several institutes and hosted by a National Meteorological Service.

The Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF) is an answer to the common requirements of meteorology and oceanography for a comprehensive information on the ocean-atmosphere interface.

One of the objectives of the OSI SAF is to produce, control and distribute operationally in near real-time OSI SAF products using available satellite data with the necessary Users Support activities... More on the project

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• Program overview : A view on the project.
• Products presentation: : A view on the products.quicklooks, validation, statistics...
• Documentation.
• News : Complete list of news about the OSI SAF.
• Links to related sites.
• Account request : Users are invited to register by asking for an account. When logging in they will get access to the products and benefit from the User Support : Help Desk, up-to-date information about the production, including Service Messages, documentation and other relevant information.
• Login: For registered users only.
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  Special event : 4th OSI SAF User Workshop to be held on 15-16 October 2008 in Brest, Brittany, France.

The Help Desk

• offering the users the opportunity to make any question, request or suggestion, with the guarantee that they demand will be acknowledged or answered to in time and addressed by the appropriate team.
• providing the production centers and the project team with a profitable feed back from the users so that the production keeps on meeting its quality and availability requirements and that the need expressed by the user community can be properly taken into consideration.