Desenvolvimento de aplicações operacionais para o monitoramento meteorológico, ambiental e oceanográfico utilizando dados do sistema EUMETCast

Abstract

The objective was to improve and operationalize the satellite-based images of the receiving station of Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) installed at the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) by the system EUMETCast - this user-driven, userfriendly and low-cost information European dissemination service, designed to distribute satellite-based and products data to diverse communities - for meteorological oceanographic and environmental monitoring. Applications were developed for decoding, geo-location, displaying, composite images with political boundaries and to extract the values of the fraction of vegetation cover, albedo, land surface temperature and sea surface temperature products for areas of interest. Structured analysis methodology was employed the code development. The results indicated that the objective of work was fully accomplished, with the highlyimplementation of operational applications towards the support of operational meteorological centers and universities for research activities and teaching. Other MSG useful applications based on the decoding and displaying code can also be derived, such as the cloud monitoring. Considering the current use of the EUMETCast system in Brazil, it is possible that this work will have numerous applications at regional and national levels.