Workshop on the Use of Gridded Satellite Data for Climate Services in Africa, Pretoria, 2018

General introduction into satellite-based climate data records, and those provided by the CM SAF as well as some applications.

The most important content of this section "Satellite based climate data" is provided in pdf's for download here.

Detailed information about the CM SAF (Thematic) Climate Data Records (TCDR's).

Content of this section as pdf to download

Search and Order CM SAF Data

In this presentation you will learn:

• what is the LSA SAF
• who develops the LSA SAF products
• what products are available from the LSA SAF

To listen to the audio open the pdf, on each slide place your mouse over the  button and start the audio by clicking on the play button .

In this presentation you will learn:

• what are the most relevant LSA SAF products for African applications
• main characteristics of these products

Content of this section as pdf to download.

The CM SAF R toolbox

Information about tutorial

Here you can find a description about MSG toobox, its purpose and limitations.

Install MSG toobox

Test MSG toolbox

Install QGIS

IPrepare your environment

You need to download the following files, before going through the QGIS tutorial:

importa_data_reproj_LST

importa_data_reproj_FVC

importa_data_reproj_FAPAR

importa_data_reproj_ET

importa_data_reproj_METREF

This tutorial gives the instructions on how to open LSA SAF data in QGis software and extract data for give lat, lon locations.

Please note that to be able to open LSA SAF data in QGis you must first unzip the files!

PDF's

Manual, CM SAF R Package Description, ...

MSG Toolbax Manual and test tutorial