| Data available | 
| Land Surface emissivity for SEVIRI/Meteosat
                    (IR) channels and broad-band values within the 3-14 micron
                    band. EM is available for the Meteosat disk, on a pixel-by-pixel
                    basis. | 
| Developer | 
| Satellite Applications Facility on Land Surface
                    Analysis (Land SAF), part of EUMETSAT ground segment (http://www.eumetsat.int). | 
| Scientific documentation | 
| Documentation about the Land SAF and algorithms is available
                  at: http://landsaf.meteo.pt/ Peres L. F., and C. C. DaCamara (2005): Emissivity maps to retrieve land-surface temperature from MSG/SEVIRI. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.851172. | 
| Selected references | 
| How to access information | 
| Land SAF data are freely available, but users
                    are asked to register at the  site: http://landsaf.meteo.pt/ Emissivity is an internal product, but it may be distributed if requested. Please write to the Land SAF helpdesk: helpdesk.landsaf@meteo.pt | 
| Format information | 
| All Land SAF products are available in HDF5
                    format (http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/). | 
| Date project began or when data was first available | 
| 1 March 2005 (Land SAF) | 
| Date information last updated and by whom | 
| Emissivity maps, corresponding to ~5day composites,
                    are updated daily. | 
| Date information last checked and by whom, and date for next check and by whom | 
| The Land SAF EM is checked routinely and used
                    for the operational retrieval of Land Surface Temperature
                    from SEVIRI by the Land SAF team (LST may be downloaded from
                    http://landsaf.meteo.pt/). | 
            









 
  