2024 Conference Aspot group image

Image of the week: EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference 2024

 

Watching our Earth from space

2024 Conference Aspot group image
2024 Conference Aspot group image

This week’s image of the week is of the more than 500 participants of the EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference in Wurzburg, Germany, 30 September - 4 October 2024.

Last Updated

09 October 2024

Published on

09 October 2024

The conference was co-hosted by the German Meteorological Service, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), and had the theme “Earth observation value chains for weather, climate and hydrosphere”.

Conference sessions during the five-day event covered the following topics:

  • International Earth observation systems
  • Meteosat Third Generation product evaluation and scientific assessment, utility in application domains such as nowcasting and its preliminary contribution to numerical weather prediction
  • Upcoming Earth observation missions, including microwave constellations, new wind measurements and altimetry
  • How artificial intelligence, machine learning and cloud-based platforms will accelerate use of satellite data
  • Using satellite observations to assess climate variability and change
  • Moving toward a full Earth system approach in weather prediction
  • Data and products for emerging services, such as wildfires, volcanic eruptions, chemical compounds release, energy, flash flood rapid warnings
  • Data access and cloud technologies

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The conference plenary sessions can be viewed on EUMETSAT’s YouTube site and images of the event are available on Flickr

More info

European and global weather and climate experts gather in Würzburg

Advance info about next year’s conference which will be in Lyon, France, on 15-19 September 2025