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Major upgrade of Sentinel-3 Altimetry products
Thursday, 14 December 2017
Sentinel-3 SRAL (dual-frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter) Level 1 and Level 2 products will be enhanced on 13 December.
Addition of NEDT values in ATOVS BUFR products
Thursday, 07 December 2017
Noise Equivalent Delta Temperature (NEDT) values will be added in ATOVS BUFR products from 22 November 2017.
EUMETSAT takes steps to extend Meteosat and EPS operations and approves ground segment contracts for next generation systems
Darmstadt, Germany
Wednesday, 06 December 2017
At its 88th session, the EUMETSAT Council agreed to exploit the Meteosat second generation (MSG) and EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) satellite systems for another seven years and opened the votes enabling the 30 Member States to formalise associated financial commitments in the course of 2018.
EUMETSAT ground segment is ready for the launch of Copernicus Sentinel-3B
Darmstadt, Germany
Tuesday, 05 December 2017
EUMETSAT has confirmed the readiness of its teams and the new version of its ground segment to support the launch and commissioning of the Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite in a two-satellite configuration with Sentinel-3A.
Experts gather in Darmstadt for conference on atmospheric science
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
About 200 scientists from around the world gather in Darmstadt this week for a conference dedicated to atmospheric sounding science.
New mask for Meteosat-8 SEVIRI Level 1.5 image data
Thursday, 23 November 2017
A new mask will be implemented operationally in the Meteosat-8 SEVIRI Level 1.5 image data from 14 December 2017.
Forty years of Meteosat – a European success story in geostationary orbit
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Forty years ago, on 23 November 1977 the European Space Agency (ESA) launched Meteosat-1, Europe’s very first meteorological satellite.
Ocean TEDx Event @EUMETSAT
Darmstadt, Germany
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Under the motto “Decoding the blue dot”, EUMETSAT will host a TEDx event tonight, organised by the local RheinMain TEDx group.
New version of CODA released
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
A new version of the Copernicus Online Data Access (CODA) service has been released today (15 Nov).
Upgrade to the processing version of regional Suomi-NPP data
Thursday, 09 November 2017
An upgrade to the processing version of EARS-ATMS, EARS-CrIS and EARS-VIIRS is planned for 27 November.
New regional EARS-IASI Level 2 products soon on EUMETCast
Thursday, 09 November 2017
EARS-IASI Level 2 products will be available on EUMETCast from 23 November.
The Directors-General of EUMETSAT and ESA sign statement on joint contributions to the Space Strategy for Europe
Wednesday, 08 November 2017
In the margins of the EU-ESA informal space ministerial meeting organised in Tallinn, Estonia, by the Estonian Presidency of the European Union and the Spanish Chairmanship of the ESA Council, Alain Ratier, the EUMETSAT Director-General and Johann-Dietrich Wörner, the ESA Director-General, signed a statement on the joint contributions of ESA and EUMETSAT to the Space Strategy for Europe.
Access Sea Surface Temperature (SST) component of METIS tool
Tuesday, 07 November 2017
Open access to the Monitoring and Evaluation of Thematic Information from Space (METIS-SST) online tool, the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) component of METIS now available.
LRIT Direct Dissemination service to be discontinued on 27 March
Thursday, 02 November 2017
Tthe LRIT Direct Dissemination service from the Meteosat 0° satellite discontinues on 27 March 2018.
Release of Sentinel-3A SRAL Reprocessed Dataset
Friday, 13 October 2017
Sentinel-3A SRAL reprocessed dataset available on CODA from 16 October.
New MSG L1.5 SEVIRI Geo-referencing
Thursday, 12 October 2017
On 6 December a correction to a geo-referencing offset in the SEVIRI Level 1.5 image data will take place.