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NEAR REAL-TIME NOTIFICATIONS PRODUCTS

The Support to Aviation Control Service (SACS) hosted by the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)
is a project initiated by the European Space Agency (ESA) aiming at supporting the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centres,
like Toulouse VAAC and London VAAC. This is achieved by delivering NEAR REAL-TIME data of SO₂ and volcanic ash
derived from satellite UV-vis (OMI, GOME-2B&C, OMPS, TROPOMI) and InfraRed (AIRS, IASI-B, IASI-C) instruments.
The SACS multi-sensors system also includes automatic worldwide detection of volcanic plumes of SO₂ and ash and
notifications are sent out by email to interested parties.

From November 2020, the development of the SACS system is part of the 2-years H2020 ALARM project.
The near-real-time monitoring and detection capability of ALARM will be improved with new datasets
and expanded to other hazards than volcanic eruptions.

More details:

https://alarm-project.eu

ALARM project has received funding from the SESAR Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 891467.
The JU receives support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and
the SESAR JU members other than the Union.

DISCLAIMER: SACS is a free service that provides ash/SO₂ notifications
in case of exceptional concentrations detected by satellite instruments.
The usage of the SACS notifications, whether or not these happen to be
"true" or "false" notifications, is entirely in the hands of the Users.
The SACS developers disclaim liability for any kind of use or misuse
of the SACS information, regardless of the application.

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Last update on 05 Dec 2022