The Chinese meteorological satellite and applications

The history, current status and future program of the Chinese Meteorological Satellite, i.e. Fengyun satellite (FY) is introduced in this presentation. Currently, there are 2 FY polar satellites and 3 FY geostationary satellites are in operational. The type of the instruments amounted on FY satellites includes the optical imager, the atmospheric sounder, the microwave imager, the atmospheric composition detector, and the radiation budget mapper. The ground segment and data application of FY satellites are introduced in general in this paper.