EUMETSAT Annual Report 2022

EUMETSAT ANNUAL REPORT 2022
Table of
contents
Director-General’s foreword. ............................. 2
Council Chairman’s foreword. ............................ 4
Highlights of 2022 ....................................... 6
Responding to disasters. ............................... 10
EUMETSAT climate statement. ......................... 11
Looking ahead............................. 12
Potential future EUMETSAT missions. .................. 12
Artificial intelligence and machine learning ............. 14
Space weather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Making best use of scientific data ....................... 15
Case study: Meteosat Third Generation: cutting-edge
weather data. ...................................... 16
Satellite operations. ........................ 18
Meteosat. .............................................. 18
Metop. ................................................. 20
Copernicus Sentinels. .................................. 20
Jason-3. ............................................... 21
Case study: The eyes on a storm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Services to data users ...................... 24
EUMETSAT’s online data access services. ............... 24
WEkEO. ................................................ 25
European Weather Cloud. .............................. 25
Commercial radio occultation data. ..................... 26
Training ................................................ 26
Data policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Destination Earth. ...................................... 27
EUMETSAT satellite application facilities. ................ 28
Case study: Marine heatwave intensification threatens
coral reef health. ................................... 30
Climate services. .......................... 32
Case study: Climate change in the European context. .. 34
Programme development ................... 36
Meteosat Third Generation. ............................. 36
EUMETSAT Polar System – Second Generation ......... 38
Copernicus missions ................................... 39
European and international cooperation ....... 40
Relationships with partners in Europe................... 40
Bilateral partnerships................................... 42
Multilateral partnerships................................ 43
African Space Art Project ............................... 44
Copernicus. ............................... 46
Management and administration ............. 48
Reorganisation of the Technical and Scientific
Support Department.................................... 48
Response to the Covid-19 pandemic.................... 49
New policies, tools and work practices.................. 50
Evolution of the EUMETSAT campus.................... 51
Staff survey follow-up activities......................... 51
Reducing EUMETSAT’s carbon footprint................. 52
Communication and outreach........................... 53
Ethics Officer............................................ 53
Case study: In the heat of the moment. ............... 54
Key figures. ............................... 56
EUMETSAT mission planning........................... 56
Operational performance indicators..................... 58
EUMETSAT data centre and user base................... 60
Financial information................................... 61
Human resources...................................... 62
Appendix ................................. 64
Organisation chart...................................... 64
EUMETSAT delegate body chairs 2022. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
EUMETSAT Council delegates and advisors 2022........ 66
Participation in major events in 2022.................... 68
Data records released in 2022........................... 69
New products released in 2022. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Scientific and technical publications in 2022. . . . . . . . . . . . . 71