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The registration, as well as all data accessible by H-SAF website, are completely free of charge. Registered users are able to receive news and periodic updates on H-SAF (news on products characteristics, on program events, on training courses), and will be able to have access to restricted sections of the website as "H-SAF Download Data Centre" in order to have access to all H-SAF downloadable products. Furthermore, registration is necessary to access to dedicated tools (i.e.: the MapTool, for plotting a set of products on the Google Map) and to receive support on H-SAF products.

Once completed the registration process, you will get an account through which you can access to the "H-SAF Download Centre". This will allow you to directly access to the H-SAF FTP server (ftphsaf.meteoam.it) from which you can download H-SAF products and PNG images generated in the last 60 days. Furthermore, the "H-SAF Download Centre" allows you to access to the archived products (older than 60 days) by means of an order-based facility. In addition H-SAF products are distributed directly by EUMETSAT trough EUMETCast (NRT distribution) and UMARF (archived products) services. The H-SAF data are freely distributed. However, when using these data in a publication, we request that the following acknowledgement be given : « These data were obtained from the H-SAF operated by EUMETSAT (Darmstadt, Germany) ».

All products daily generated are collected and are downloadable through the H-SAF FTP server. All products older than 60 days (generated 60 days before today) are deleted from the FTP server and stored in a permanent archive not accessible by FTP connection. The access to stored data is possible by  submitting an order accessing to the proper page (http://hsaf.meteoam.it/download-products/download-products-order.php). It is possible to submit a maximum of 10 orders per day for a total maximum size of 20GB.