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Jacques van Oene
June 29th 05, 10:12 PM
How sunny is it outside right now - not just locally but all across Europe
and Africa? Answering this question is at the heart of many weather-related
business activities: solar power and the wider energy sector, architecture
and construction, tourism, even health care. Today accurate and
continent-wide scale measurements of ground radiances are provided every 15
minutes by ESA's Meteosat Second Generation satellite.

More at:
http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM4Q82DU8E_economy_0.html

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Jacques :-)

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