The Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) is an internationally known research and development center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With a history of remote sensing innovation spanning more than 50 years, SSEC develops and utilizes space-based, aircraft-based and ground-based instrumentation to collect and analyze observations of the Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land surface and other planetary atmospheres to improve our understanding of weather, climate and atmospheric processes. SSEC is a world leader in developing the algorithms and designing the ground and archive systems necessary to process atmospheric data collected from a geostationary platform. SSEC scientists are committed to sharing their efforts, tools and knowledge with the global research community.

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