OUAGADOUGOU – BAF1 station
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Name : BAF1
Location : Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso
Latitude : 12.3698
Longitude: -1.5129
Hosting : on the site of the Institute of Research for Development
Start-up : April, 2021
![Location of the Ouagadougou station, global view.](https://www.svom.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Ouagadougou1-600x457.jpg)
![Location of the Ougadougou station, close-up view.](https://www.svom.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Ouagadougou2-600x428.jpg)
The station is installed on the roof of a building of the Institute of Research for Development.
![Installation of the SVOM station on the roof of the Development Research Institute building.](https://www.svom.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Ouagadougou3-450x600.jpg)
This station can be configured to receive data from the NOAA 18 and NOAA 19 weather satellites. The reconstructed images make it possible to check the quality of the site and to identify possible degradations on the reception of the signals.
![Image produced from the data sent by the NOAA19 satellite.](https://www.svom.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Ouagadougou5-380x600.jpg)