EUMETSAT Annual Report 2022

EUMETSAT ANNUAL REPORT 2022
EUMETSAT also collaborates with other agencies
to provide training on the use of Copernicus data.
In 2022, EUMETSAT developed a new version of
its annual introductory marine applications online
training course. The Supporting Marine Applications
course is designed to support potential users who
wish to work with satellite data for a diverse range
of marine applications. The 2022 iteration of the
course brought marine products from Copernicus
Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-6 missions together with
the products available from the Ocean and Sea Ice
Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF), providing
data users with a holistic view of the wide variety
of products available through EUMETSAT. The 2022
external collaboration was with the University of
Athens, which provided guest tutorials on monitoring
marine ecosystems.
Towards the development of a marine applications
curriculum of training, EUMETSAT is designing
advanced courses suited to supporting data users
in different marine user groups. The Supporting
Marine Earth Observation Educators course offers an
opportunity for those already familiar with satellite
data and with teaching or training responsibilities,
to co-develop resources for their own activities.
The participants act as multipliers, delivering and
further developing learning material about marine
products distributed by EUMETSAT, including those
from Copernicus missions and the OSI SAF, and the
Copernicus marine service.
About 1,400 participants took part in 15 training
events on Copernicus atmosphere applications in
2022. A workshop dedicated to wildfires attracted
about 200 participants in October, including about
100 from European organisations and services.
The training included sessions on the use of data
from MTG, EPS-SG, Modis, Copernicus Sentinel-2
and -5, GOES-R, and JPSS satellite instruments
during fire events.
User engagement related to wildfire and dust
monitoring also continued in 2022, with development
of demonstrational tools, training material, courses
and workshops. Higher-resolution imagery and a
dedicated fire channel on MTG’s Flexible Combined
Imager, will allow for a much-improved capacity to
detect and monitor fires even at smaller scales. The
user preparation involves civil protection agencies,
meteorological services, researchers, modellers and
data providers from EUMETSAT, the European Centre
for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and
Copernicus Services.
A training session on dust monitoring was held,
together with the World Meteorological Organization,
the ECMWF and the Aerosol, Clouds and Trace Gases
Research Infrastructure European infrastructure.
More than 250 attendees took part, discovering 20
products from models, satellite data and in-situ data.
EUMETSAT ran a Jupyter Notebook competition in
2022 as an outreach initiative to build up learning
resources for people wanting to work with
Copernicus data. The aim was to start a communitydriven
collection of notebooks on the Copernicus
WEkEO online platform, which could help others to
start their own journeys with Earth observation data.
First prize, from 36 notebooks submitted, went to a
team that developed a notebook with the title Portrait
of a Lake’s Death. The notebook shows people how
to use Copernicus Sentinel-2 data to document the
disappearance of the Aculeo Lagoon in Chile, due to
drought conditions and changes in land use.
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