The kick-off meeting of the Horizon Europe project CAMS AERosol Advancement (CAMAERA), led by HYGEOS, took place on 29th January, with over 50 participants from countries and institutes all over Europe. read more
HYGEOS started a number of studies to support CNES in the calibration and validation and data processors development for current and future spatial missions. read more
HYGEOS’s participation in the Copernicus Global Land Service is renewed for four years, 2023-2027. read more
The State of the Climate in 2022 has been released on 6th of September. HYGEOS contributed the aerosol section; the most prominent aerosol event in 2022 was the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano, which released large amount of water vapour and sulphur dioxide in the stratosphere. read more
From Tuesday 27 June 2023 onwards, the system accounts for detailed chemical processes not only in the troposphere but also in the stratosphere. This upgrade creates the potential to assimilate stratospheric trace gases and introduce changes to the modelling of dust aerosols. read more
HYGEOS contributed the aerosol section of the prestigious BAMS State of the Climate report, published annually by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. read more
HYGEOS made 3 oral presentations and showed 1 poster at the International Radiation Symposium, which took place at Thessaloniki (Greece) on 4-8 July 2022. Some presentations can be donwloaded here: read more
The SolaRes service developed by HYGEOS quantifies the impact of the polution event lived in Northern Europe in March 2022 on the solar energy available for photovoltaic panels. read more
HYGEOS participated in the kick-off meeting of the ESA-funded CCI+ Vegetation parameters project, leb by VITO. HYGEOS is responsible of the atmospheric corrections of input satellite data. read more
Seven abstracts were accepted at the International Radiation Symposium taking place at Thessaloniki (Greece) in July 2022, involving HYGEOS researchers. The list of the abstracts can be found here: read more
Five French teams, including HYGEOS, published their work on the estimation of Sargassum fractional coverage using kilometric and decametric satellite sensors data acquired at the same location and at the same time. read more
The SolaRes service participated in a competition with four other companies, organised by TotalEnergies. Comparison scores between SolaRes estimates and observations were more than encouraging ! read more
HYGEOS participated in the kick-off meeting of the ESA-funded BiCOME project, led by the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML). HYGEOS is in charge of the satellite signal decontamination using the Polymer atmospheric scheme. read more
HYGEOS, in partnership with LOA and ICARE , was awarded a contract by EUMETSAT for the provision of TOA radiances simulations for the MAP and the CLIM of the CO2M mission. read more
HYGEOS contributed to two important annual bulletins that monitor the Earth system: the BAMS (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society) State of the Climate, and the new WMO (World Meteorological Organization) air quality bulletin. read more
The CAMS2_35 project, led by HYGEOS, started on 1st of September 2021. It is part of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) programme, funded by the European Union and operated by ECMWF. read more
BiCOME (Biodiversity of the Coastal Ocean: Monitoring with Earth Observation) project, led by the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, will start soon after successful negotiations with ESA. read more
The CAMS 43 project led by HYGEOS gave three presentations at the EGU 2021 online meeting. The topics covered are upgrades of the global aerosol model used in CAMS; simulation of the stratospheric atmospheric composition and of the COVID-19 impact on global aerosols and trace gases. read more
HYGEOS' participation in the Copernicus Global Land Service is renewed for two years, 2021-2023. read more
HYGEOS together with the LOA produced a new generation of synthetic data in the framework of a contract for EUMETSAT. The data set is innovative in terms of (i) scene realism, (ii) spectral coverage (0.3 to 15.5 microns), (iii) spectral resolution (between 0.5nm and 0.25 cm-1) and (iv) spatial coverage (full geostationnary disk). See the project dedicated page
HYGEOS participated to this new publication in collaboration with the LOA, the CNRM and the Met-Office. read more
HYGEOS participated to the Solaire Expo Maroc at Casablanca, Morocco. read more
The CAMS 43 project led by HYGEOS presented a poster at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting in San Francisco read more
The CAMS 43 project led by HYGEOS published an article that describes the tropospheric aerosol scheme of the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System (IFS). read more
HYGEOS participated to the fourth General Assembly of the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Services in Budapest, on 16-20 September 2019. read more
HYGEOS participated to the EU PVSEC held on 9-13 September in Marseille, France. read more
Version 4.12 of Polymer is now available. You can download it here after free registration and check the changelog.
HYGEOS participated to the ICEM conference held on 25-27 June 2019 in Copenhagen, Denmark. read more
HYGEOS has done two presentations and a poster at Living Planet Symposium. read more
SACSO (Spectral matching Atmospheric Correction for Sentinel Ocean colour measurements) has kicked off with EUMETSAT and Solvo. read more
HYGEOS presented its activities in link with the Copernicus programme at a seminar organized by IPGP. read more
Absolute and inter-band vicarious calibration of optical sensors on Deep Convective Clouds kickoff meeting with CNES and LOA
Publication describing our radiative transfer tool SMART-G is accepted and available here.
HYGEOS participated to the SolarPACES conference held on 2-5 October 2018 in Casablanca, Morocco. read more
A forum is now available on our website, to provide software releases and support to Polymer and Smart-G. read more
The EUMETSAT study "Ocean Colour Bright Pixel Correction", lead by SOLVO had kicked off in late June. HYGEOS is in charge of the prototyping of the coupled ocean-atmosphere algorithm. read more
Latest version of Polymer is now available with Rayleigh correction rework, DEM and Sentinel2 landmask. You can download it here after free registration and check the changelog.
HYGEOS animated a 16-student workshop at the Institut Supérieur d'Agriculture in Lille (ISA), dedicated to the exploitation of satellite data in farming applications. read more
HYGEOS participates to the technical day on solar energy in the French Region 'Hauts de France'.
HYGEOS published a paper on remote sensing of the underwater light field in the ocean from satellites. read more
26-h lecture on image processing, in collaboration with the Université Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO)
As a first author and co-author, HYGEOS published a paper on fog nowcasting. read more
We made radiative transfer computations to explain why the sun appeared red on 17 October in Lille. read more
HYGEOS participated to the Solar PACES conference held on 26-29 September in Santiago De Chile. read more
This week, Mathieu Compiègne represents HYGEOS at the annual EUMETSAT conference that takes place in Rome. read more
Final review of the daily PAR (Photosynthetically Active Radiation) project leaded by HYGEOS at ESA/ESRIN (Italy)
Mustapha Moulana will work on 3D radiative transfer code using GPU technologies.
We have updated our website. read more
HYGEOS celebrates its 15th anniversary! About 50 guests have joined us at Euratechnologies, Lille, on December the 12th 2016.
After receipt of the final payment and its distribution to partners, the FP7 ImagineS project is closed.
Estimates of the solar ressource, will be presented at the 22nd SolarPaces conference, Abu Dhabi, 11-14 October 2016.