Meteorological satellites since 40 years in IMWM service

The history of satellite remote sensing applications in IMWM was presented, referring to history of remote sensing and also development and actual state of meteorological satellite system. Main areas of applications were presented together with examples of products generated from satellite data operationally received in IMWM since 40 years. The problem of data resolution from meteorological satellites fulfilling requirements of meteorology were presented on examples of processes for which were designed. Dynamical development of meteorological satellites in recent years were presented focusing on METEOSAT Second Generation and METOP satellites.