About Us

The LSA SAF (Satellite Application Facility on Land Surface Analysis) is part of the distributed EUMETSAT (European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) Application Ground Segment. Operating for over two decades, it delivers a wide range of products and services for land surface characterization and monitoring.

Focusing on three thematic areas - Radiation, Vegetation, and Energy-Water-Carbon Exchanges - LSA SAF aims to strengthen its role as a leading center for land surface information retrieval from remote sensing data, with a particular emphasis on EUMETSAT satellites.

Its core objectives include:
(i) Maintaining a reliable near real-time (NRT) and offline service,
(ii) Ensuring the consistency of datasets for selected NRT products, and
(iii) Exploring the potential of sensors onboard the next generation of EUMETSAT satellites (MTG, EPS-SG).

All LSA SAF product are distributed according with EUMETSAT data policy and have been classified core and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) by EUMETSAT. Whether you’re displaying the product as-is or if you have used it as input data, please use the attribution suggested on LSA SAF usage policy and acknowledgement.

The LSA SAF maintains a helpdesk service to answer to any question related to the LSA SAF services and products.

The LSA SAF, hosted by the Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) is a joint venture of the following NMHSs and Universities together with EUMETSAT: