February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... distribution of global cloud, snow and ice cover, and ocean surface temperatures and winds. The EPS-Second Generation (EPS-SG) represents Europe’s contribution to the future Joint Polar System (JPS), which is planned to be established together with...
14 November 2019
Met services prepare for next-generation satellite systems
... (DHMZ) said new and next-generation instruments on the EPS-SG satellites will be the main source of data for complex... the data from the new and next-generation instruments on EPS-SG," Mahovi said. Both systems will make significant contributions to ...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... to be launched around 2019/20. The EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) is Europe’s first polar-orbiting operational meteorological satellite system,... the IJPS. Started in 2005 under the name of Post-EPS, the activities have been endorsed in 2012 under a new ...