Space projects

POSTEL is taking care of the processing, the production and the distribution of CNES scientific satellite sensors :

-  POLDER-1 & 2 . The biogeophysical products POLDER/ADEOS on land surfaces are available at CNES. POSTEL is in charge of the maintenance and evolution of algorithms and processing lines. The products are the albedo, fraction of vegetal cover, fraction of absorbed PAR, leaf area index and BRDF.

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-  POLDER-3 . The biogeophysical products POLDER / PARASOL on land surfaces (albedo, surface reflectances, and NDVI) are produced operationally by the POSTEL Service Centre. The MATIS team of CNRM/Météo-France, Expertise Centre of POSTEL, is in charge of the algorithms definition and the product validation.

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