January 29, 2010
The EO Portal launch - another milestone in data delivery
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Earth Observation Portal (EO Portal) user management component, where you can centrally manage subscriptions to data, products and services provided by EUMETSAT.
The
EO Portal enables you to register for all near real-time services, such as EUMETCast, FTP over the Internet and via Direct Dissemination - primarily from the Meteosat and Metop satellites.
Getting started
If you are a new user we recommend you consult the
EO Portal tutorials, which will walk you through all aspects of creating a new account, and adding and managing subscriptions. If any form of decryption hardware and/or software are required in order to receive data, these can be ordered as part of the registration process.
If you are an existing user you can login with your user ID and password, which will allow you to add, modify and remove service subscriptions or renew licence agreements.
For further information regarding registration, licenses and our privacy policy, please visit the
Service Registration page. For detailed information regarding licensing of data, licensing agents and EUMETSAT data policy, please visit the
Data Licensing page.
For further assistance in using the EO Portal, please consult our comprehensive
EO Portal tutorials or contact the
User Helpdesk.
Second milestone
The EO Portal user management service is the second milestone in the EUMETSAT EO Portal evolution, the first being the collections discovery service (known as the
Product Navigator), available since November 2008. The following milestones will offer users the capability to register and manage their user accounts for access to the Data Centre and User Notification Service through the EO Portal user management service. When finalised, the EO Portal will offer the user community 'single sign-on' access to all data services offered by EUMETSAT.
EUMETSAT is an Associate Member of the
Open Geospational Consortium (OGC). EUMETSAT is implementing OGC standards defined by the
Heterogeneous Mission Access (HMA) project at
ESA, which will be the basis for the future GMES Data Access implementation (ESA/EUMETSAT). EUMETSAT is also part of the OGC / HMA Ordering Working group.
In parallel to the above, a prototype for the enhancement of the web image visualisation system to provide meteorological data using Web Map Services (WMS) and Web Coverage Services (WCS) is presently being undertaken.
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