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1 December 2021
EUMETSAT council gives green light to initiatives aimed at improving access to more weather, climate data.
28 September 2012
Four of the instruments on the Metop-B weather satellite (AMSU-A, ASCAT, MHS, GRAS) have been activated this week and are delivering data.
Online: 19 April-7 May 2021
Sharing knowledge, skills, resources and code to help access and process Sentinel-3 data for marine workflows and applications.
18 January 2011
EUMETSAT has extended the existing coverage of direct readout of data from the instruments on board its Metop polar-orbiting satellite via the Advanced High Resolution Picture Transmission (AHRPT) system, making the data available to more users globally
26 October 2012
EUMETSAT has begun trial dissemination of data from instruments on board the Metop-B polar-orbiting satellite to partners, including the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Met Office (UK), Deutscher Wetterdienst and Météo-France
4 February 2011
NOAA successfully completed the first acquisition of data from EUMETSAT’s Metop-A satellite at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on 19 January 2011.
21 July 2021
EUMETSAT’s governing council has approved the acquisition of meteorological data from Spire Global Luxembourg S.a.r.l.
21 January 2016
Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason-3 high-precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near-real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.
23 October 2012
EUMETSAT has started trial dissemination of MSG-3 image data and meteorological products to national meteorological services in the organisation’s Member and Cooperating States and to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
6 January 2014
EUMETSAT has been designated by the European Commission as the provider of data from the Suomi-NPP polar-orbiting satellite of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the Copernicus marine and atmosphere services, for a period of 17 months. Copernicus is an EU programme for monitoring the Earth environment and security.
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https://www-cdn.eumetsat.int/files/2023-10/45173%20Data_Policy.pdf
12 February 2009
The Advanced High Resolution Picture Transmission (AHRPT) system on EUMETSAT’s Metop-A polar-orbiting satellite is operational again following a successful two-month trial in October-November
8 September 2014
The 11th EUMETSAT User Forum in Africa takes place in Benoni, South Africa, on 8-12 September 2014, hosted by the South African Weather Service.
29 November 2023
EUMETSAT to bring data lake’s services to 24/7 operations
Darmstadt, Germany, 16-20 October 2023
The Charter provides satellite data to support coordinated responses to worldwide disasters.
Commercial satellite data demonstrated benefits, value for money
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https://www-cdn.eumetsat.int/files/2020-07/pdf_copernicusreport2019_final.pdf
29 April 2009
Today, the inauguration ceremony took place of a reception station recently installed in Ethopia’s capital to supply the African Union Commission (AUC) with real-time data, images and products from EUMETSAT satellites and from other data providers through EUMETCast, EUMETSAT’s data dissemination system
31 March 2010
EUMETCast, EUMETSAT’s broadcast system for meteorological and environmental data, is now disseminating RETIM data for Météo-France on a fully operational basis, replacing the RETIM2000 system
13 September 2022
Meteorologists and scientists from African nations are gathering in Tanzania to prepare for the exploitation of data from Europe’s next-generation satellite systems.
03–05 November 2015, Darmstadt, Germany
Ensuring Long-Term Data Preservation, and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data
01–03 July 2013, Frascati, Italy
The objective of the workshop is to discuss and reconcile recent methodological advances in the validation and application of global satellite soil moisture data.
11 September 2015, Darmstadt, Germany
Access to Marine Data Stream from EUMETSAT
The Central Facility is responsible for the generation of level 1 data and level 2 products.
Hybrid - 21 November 2022
The workshop will also be attended by representatives of European Commission and our partners ESA and ECMWF.
31 July 2023
EUMETSAT and CNES have signed an agreement that increases the volume of data available on the Copernicus WEkEO platform
3 November 2021
EUMETSAT takes key role in European digital twins initiative.
13 May 2009
Today marks the first anniversary of the beginning of the Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) on EUMETSAT’s Meteosat-8 geostationary weather satellite, which for one year now has been successfully delivering this vital service in support of Nowcasting of severe weather events
The EUMETSAT Mission Control Centres (MCC) are responsible for the safe operations of all our satellites.
8 December 2014
125 scientific experts from around the world gathered at EUMETSAT headquarters in Darmstadt on 3-4 December.
10–11 July 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The workshop is organised by the VU University in Amsterdam, as a follow up to the 2013 Soil Moisture validation and application workshop held in Frascati, Italy.
3–4 December 2014, Darmstadt, Germany
Second joint ESA-EUMETSAT Sentinel-3 Validation Team (S3VT), EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, 3 and 4 December 2014.
22 March 2012
The second Continuous Development and Operations Phase (CDOP-2) for EUMETSAT’s Satellite Application Facility (SAF) network which began this month will improve and expand the portfolio of SAF products and services over the next five years
Inside EUMETSAT interviews Gareth Williams and Andrea Di Giovanni.