October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
...European contribution to the Initial Joint Polar-orbiting Operational Satellite System (IJPS), a joint effort between EUMETSAT and NOAA. EUMETSAT’s polar-orbiting satellites (i.e. MetOp satellites) carry a set of state-of-the-art sounding and imaging...
October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
...an online rolling archive By ordering from the EUMETSAT Data (www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Copernicus/AccessData/index.html). ...the oceans blue. About the author Ewa Kwiatkowska joined EUMETSAT in September 2011 as Remote Sensing Scientist within the...
16 February 2016
Sentinel-3A poised for liftoff later today
... everything now almost ready on the launch pad – and this is all thanks collaboration between ESA, the EC, Eumetsat, France’s CNES space agency, industry, service providers and data users,” continued Berruti. Sentinel-3A is considered a special...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
...ice (cyan colour) in the summer of 2014 as captured by EUMETSAT’s Metop-A satellite. The US Landsat programme was fully privatised, ... satellites was shared freely for years before EUMETSAT decided to encrypt its transmissions and implement ...
03 March 2016
Sentinel-3A Delivers First Images
... operations phase, which was completed in record time. Once commissioned, ESA will hand over satellite operations to EUMETSAT. The mission will then be managed jointly, with ESA generating the land products and...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... the way for interaction and effective cooperation. There are also existing relations between ESA and EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) and other organisations. “At the same time,” explains Woerner...
