Sensors inside satellites collect light reflected and radiated from the Earth’s surface and atmosphere, converting it to digital intensities before transmitting them to the ground station -or the cloud.

Data management is central to climate knowledge, also because the long-term scale requires data to be continuously revisited, corrected, reentered, reassessed and reanalyzed.

Beyond being the epicenter of climate science, satellite data are also a matter of public policy and economic planning.