INSTITUTO PORTUGUES DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA (IPMA)
IPMA (Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera) is the Portuguese National Meteorological Service responsible for: monitoring weather and climate in Portugal; issuing weather forecasts and; developing R&D in the fields of meteorology, climatology, earth observation and seismology. To fulfil its operational commitments and R&D initiatives, IPMA makes extensive use of remote sensing data, mostly obtained from meteorological satellites. In particular, IPMA is the leading entity for the EUMETSAT Satellite Applications Facility on Land Surface Analysis (LSA SAF). The LSA SAF is focused on the development of remote sensing applications to characterise land surfaces, evaluate the surface radiation budget, and monitor vegetation and wildfires from EUMETSAT satellites. IPMA is also involved in several activities aiming to improve the use of Remote Sensing data to evaluate and constrain land-atmosphere interactions in numerical models, including reanalysis, weather forecasts and climate projections.