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Agriculture
Datameteo provides a broad range of information and services for agriculture. We produce accurate, site specific, forecast information for all weather rilevant parameters for agriculture in Italy and abroad. Our high resolution models enable the inclusion of detailed topography, ground cover (e.g. forest, fields, rock, water) and surface cover (snow, water) as well as the initialization (measurement data at starting of calculation) into the modeling process.
Specific data flux as :wind speed, humidity, precipitation, radiation and ETP are all forecasted from one hour to seven days ahead and can be updated hourly if required. This data is often delivered in combination with satellite, radar imagery which can be viewed PC applications.
All these information can be provided as advanced planning tools for farmers, for example ventilation models, spray-models, crop growth model, soil temperature and degree day models and grass-dry models.
A specif esemble hail index (Hail, composite index+Significant hail parameter) with detailed maps and reports on hourly basis has been developed and is avaiable for the .
Through its own seasonal forecast models CFS ( Climate Forecats Model), developed as initial code core by NCAR/NCEP. CFS is a coupled atmosferic-ocean climatological model able to show expanded set of seasonal rainfall, temperature, winds, pressure anomalies outlook maps and tables.Datameteo provides informations and seasonal outlook on specific weather patterns and parameters till seasons in advance thus helping in managing crops yield and financial returns for farmers.
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Datameteo Satellite Products and Fire Monitoring Alert
Weather satellites are used to get a space-bird's eye view of Earth's atmosphere. There are two main types of weather satellites: polar orbiting and geostationary. Both monitor the following: Day and night cloud images and low-level cloud and fog images Images showing the amounts of water vapor at various altitudes in the lower atmosphere. Land temperatures,sea surface temperatures,winds calculated by measuring cloud motion data are also available.The amounts of solar energy being reflected by various parts of the Earth Infrared, or heat, energy leaving the Earth locations of forest fires,estimates of precipitation amounts and the total amounts of ozone above different locations are the new frontier of the sat monitoring.
The polar orbiting satellites, as the name implies, orbit about Earth's poles in an almost north-south orbit. Their orbits are circular, are sun synchronous and orbit about 830 km (morning orbit) and 870 km (afternoon orbit) above Earth. Geostationary satellites are used to monitor atmospheric conditions on a more-or-less continual basis. In actuality, they make complete scans of the visible globe every 25 minutes and repeat this process every 1/2 hour (MSG satellites process every 15 minutes.The primary instrument aboard these satellites is the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). It is a radiation-detection imager capable of calculating cloud cover and surface temperature, including potential fire derived by hot spots, remotely from space.The active fire locations are processed by a customizable fire and thermal anomalies algorithm. Each active fire location represents the center of a 1 km pixel that is flagged by the algorithm as containing a fire within the pixel data derived from NOAA, AQUA, TERRRA, MSG sats and updated several times a day are available on worldwide basis both on CSV and geolocated format (Google maps Meteobrowser).Archived HRPT Sat images of Italy and other custom satellite images service are available on request.Some services request an Eumetsat commercial licence activaction
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