# Finnish Meteorological Institute
*research-institute . companies*

## Specifications
- **operator domains**: ["en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi"]
- **country**: Finland
- **website**: https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi
- **entity type**: company
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-20
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **attributes**: {"kind":"research-institute","operator_domains":"[\"en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi\"]","country":"Finland","website":"https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi"}

## Editorial
Finnish Meteorological Institute is Finland's meteorological and space-research institute, with Earth observation work spanning atmospheric composition, cryosphere monitoring, UV radiation, forest-fire monitoring, flood monitoring, and snow products.[^fmi-space-research-page][^fmi-eo-page] It operates no conventional EO imaging satellite; its role is research, services, payload contribution, data reception, calibration and validation, and product generation.[^fmi-space-research-page][^fmi-arc-about]

At Sodankyla, the FMI Arctic Space Centre and National Satellite Data Centre receive and process satellite data for Finnish, Baltic Sea, and Arctic users, including SMOS, Sentinel data through Finhub, COSMO-SkyMed, MODIS, and Suomi-NPP/VIIRS; NSDC also offers S-band TT&C uplink service.[^fmi-arc-about][^fmi-nsdc] FMI contributed the electrostatic plasma brake payload to Aalto-1, while Aalto University operated the satellite and the payload was a propulsion and deorbit demonstration rather than an FMI-operated EO mission.[^aalto1-eoportal] FMI's Sodankyla site is also part of an ESA-FMI Arctic-Boreal Earth Science calibration and validation supersite under FutureEO.[^sodankyla-supersite-esa-2025]

## Sources
- [fmi-space-research-page] | Space Research - Finnish Meteorological Institute | https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/space-research | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-20
- [fmi-eo-page] | Earth Observation - Finnish Meteorological Institute | https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/earth-observation | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-20
- [fmi-arc-about] | About Us - Arctic Space Centre FMI | https://fmiarc.fmi.fi/about-as | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-20
- [fmi-nsdc] | National Satellite Data Centre - FMI | https://nsdc.fmi.fi/ | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-20
- [aalto1-eoportal] | Aalto-1 - eoPortal | https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/aalto-1 | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-20
- [sodankyla-supersite-esa-2025] | ESA Arctic-Boreal Earth Science cal/val supersite - SpaceFinland 2025 | https://spacefinland.fi/documents/60305973/233217911/Pulliainen_SBF_240225.pdf/2aebe38b-c506-b560-b1ff-e7b8cbe15b3b/Pulliainen_SBF_240225.pdf | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-20
- [fmi-wikipedia] | Finnish Meteorological Institute - Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Meteorological_Institute | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-20

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