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Ceres Scales Ground Validation Campaigns for Gerb. Assessment of the Valencia Anchor Station Capabilities
Proceedings del 3rd MSG RAO Workshop, celebrado el 15 de junio de 2006 en Helsinki, Finlandia.The Valencia Anchor Station (VAS) was set up by the
University of Valencia at the natural region of UtielRequena Plateau in 2001. The plateau is a large and
reasonably homogeneous area suitable for validation of
low spatial resolution satellite data and products such
as GERB's. In the framework of the EUMETSAT/ESA
MSG-RAO Project no. 138 GIST Proposal for
Calibration/Validation of SEVIRI and GERB, and of
the Spanish Research Programme on Space Project
SCALES (SEVIRI & GERB Cal/Val Area for Largescale Field ExperimentS), three GERB ground
validation campaigns have so far been carried out at the
VAS under different land surface conditions. CERES
instruments onboard NASA EOS Aqua and Terra
satellites, operating in PAPS (Programmable Azimuth
Plane Scanning) mode, have generously provided
additional SW and LW radiance measurements to
support validation efforts. These have shown to be
most valuable as intermediate validation step between
ground measurements and the large GERB pixel size