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MERIS/AATSR Workshop looks at twin sensors with many uses

3 October 2005

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The seasons of the year as seen by MERIS across Europe and Africa during 2003. This is taken from a series of global mosaics made possible using ESRIN's Grid-on-Demand service.

Credits: ESA

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Participants at the MERIS/AATSR Workshop

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AATSR sea surface temperature and MERIS chlorophyll type-a distribution charts for January 2003.

Credits: University of Leicester

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AATSR-derived bi-weekly averages of the sea surface temperature of the Gulf Stream, February to July 2003.

Credits: University of Leicester

Atmosphere

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AATSR imagery is used to detect aircraft contrails over Europe and the North Atlantic as part of ESA's Contrails project, with MERIS images being used for validation.

Credits: DLR

Land

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The fraction of incoming solar radiation useful for photosynthesis that is actually absorbed by vegetation – a value known as the Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) – measured for the month March 2005, against a base period of measurements from 1998 to 2002.

Credits: EC-JRC

The future

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Measuring residual trends in global sea surface temperature (SST) using the ATSR and AVHRR radiometers.

Credits: University of Leicester