POSTEL is a thematic centre associating R&D and services to describe the soil and vegetation from Earth Observation satellite data, at regional and global scales. It is supported by several national public institutions . POSTEL develops through a series of projects .

The products of POSTEL catalogue are spatialized variables describing :

-  Vegetation and Soils
with products such as Leaf Area Index, vegetal cover fraction, fAPAR, burnt areas, surface reflectance, land cover

-  Radiation
with products such as albedo, BRDF, surface temperature, downwelling radiation flux shortwave and longwave

-  Water
with products such as soil moisture, precipitation, water bodies, continental water level

The POSTEL products are available free of charge to the international science community and can be downloaded.