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• Institutions
  • Deutsche Zenrtum für Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR) / German Aerospace Center
  • DLR - Institute of Atmospheric Physics
  • Scientific network of European remote sensing institutes
  • The institutions of the HELIOSAT3 project
• Radiative transfer programs
  • Overview on Radiative Transfer Codes
  • Radiative transfer and atmospheric effects
  • libRadtran - library for radiative transfer
  • SBDART A Practical Tool for Plane-Parallel Radiative Transfer in the Earth's Atmosphere
  • MYSTIC - the Monte Carlo code for the physically correct tracing of photons in cloudy atmospheres
  • SHDOM Spherical Harmonic Discrete Ordinate Method for Atmospheric Radiative Transfer
• Solar radiation data
  • The European database of daylight and solar radiation (Satel-Light)
  • Solar radiation data, USA
  • Integration and exploitation of networked Solar radiation Databases for environment monitoring (SoDa)
  • Remote performance check for grid connected PV-systems using satellite data (PVSAT)
• Space agencies
  • The European Space Agency (ESA)
  • European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
• HDF - The HDF project involves
  the development and support of software and file formats for scientific data management
  • All you need to know about HDF
  • Read to run scripts
  • Download
  • Tutorials
  • The most important HDF model is the (SD) Scientific Data model, which can handle grided data very well
  • For tabulated data the Vertex Data Model better suited
  • Reference Manual
  • Users Guide