Monitoring the Earth - Meteosat image

Managing our planet today requires timely and reliable access to information such as only satellites can provide. They continuously monitor oceans, land, ice and atmosphere, capturing natural phenomena in their entirety, whatever their scale or duration, to millimetric precision.

Since 1978, the European Meteosat weather satellites have provided a wealth of data for the meteorology community, while ESA’s Envisat and ERS remote-sensing satellites have allowed scientists to build almost 20 years of datasets on environmental phenomena and climate chang