Altogether, 111 stations were deployed in 48 African Sub-Saharan countries in the framework of AMESD programme by Telespazio-France. The 111 stations comprise 57 AMESD stations, 50 PUMA-2010 stations, and the equipment of 4 African training centers. Each station includes a L-band receiving antenna, 1 acquisition PC, and 2 PCs for hosting the application software. The deployment of stations ended in June 2011.

The PUMA-2010 and AMESD stations differ by their target community and correlatively by their application software. The PUMA-2010 stations are aimed at the African meteorological community to replace and update the stations that were deployed by the programme preceding AMESD, the PUMA programme. They are equipped with the SYNERGIE software, developed by Météo-France and commercialized by Météo-France International, which permits the production of meteorological information and bulletins from satellite data. On the other hand, the AMESD stations target the African environmental community. They are equipped by the eStation software, developed by the Joint Research Centre of the European Union.

The stations receive satellite information through the EUMETCast satellite telecommunication system operated by EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the operation of Meteorological Satellites. As part of the EUMETSAT contribution to AMESD, several new data sets have been added on EUMETCast to support the AMESD project: TAMSAT rainfall data, AVISO and Mercator-Océan oceanographic data, ocean color data from the Plymouth Laboratory, land and ocean data from the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facilities (SAF).

The eStation, which stands for Environmental Station, is a processing server for environmental data processing, analysis and bulletin preparation. It provides a large portfolio of products: land/vegetation indicators (SPOT/VGT, Land SAF), precipitation estimates (MSG-MPE, TAMSAT, FEWSNET), fire indicators (MODIS Burnt Areas and active fires), and oceanographic products: MODIS Sea Surface Temperature and Chlorophyll concentration. It is an open system, based on open source software, and open to user contributions.