A ground station for weather satellite data (hereafter Marburg Satellite Station MSS) is established<br/>
at the Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing (LCRS) of the University of Marburg<br/>
(Germany). The ground segment consists of three receiving stations which are operated by the<br/>
LCRS - Faculty of Geography (NOAA-HRPT, MSG-HRUS and TERRA/AQUA) and one NOAAHRPT<br/>
receiving station in Quito (Ecuador) which is hosted by the National Weather Service of<br/>
Ecuador, INAMHI. All received image data are transferred via LAN (Marburg) or FTP (Quito) to the<br/>
LCRS archiving facility where data are stored in a database by means of a CD jukebox robot<br/>
archive. The technical layout of the stations, the processing chain from the raw data stream to<br/>
Level 1b data and some examples of scientific applications at LCRS are presented in the paper.
