Infoterra Ltd, backed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the British National Space Centre (BNSC), has set up a Level 3 product generation and dissemination service.

The production service is based around the High level Product Generation (HiProGen) system which was initially developed under an ESA funded Research and Technology Development contract. Upgraded to use Near Real-Time data and to work in the UK-PAC operational environment, the HiProGen system is now generating Level 3 composites of MERIS Level 2 geophysical data. Level 3 products are generated in GeoTIFF format, on lat-long geocoded grids, accompanied by an XML metadata file and a JPEG browse image.