EUMETSAT HQ with satellite
EUMETSAT HQ with satellite - EUMETSAT council gives green light to initiatives aimed at improving access to more weather, climate data The European meteorological satellite agency, EUMETSAT, has consolidated its position as a leading provider of weather, climate and Earth system data, announcing a series of new agreements, contracts and data exchange arrangements today. Many of the new arrangements, approved by EUMETSAT's governing council this week, flow from the organisation's recent signing of the Copernicus 2.0 agreement with the European Union. The EUMETSAT Council approved a four-party arrangement between EUMETSAT, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Mercator Ocean International and the European Environment Agency to continue to cooperate on the Copernicus data and information access service platform, WEkEO, from 2022 to 2028. "The WEkEO platform makes Copernicus data easily available to a growing number of Earth observation data users through a federated, cloud-based platform that brings each of the organisation's particular strengths into play," EUMETSAT Director-General Phil Evans said. "As an operational agency, one of EUMETSAT's strengths is its end-to-end responsibility for satellite systems. The council today approved the implementation arrangement for cooperation between EUMETSAT and the European Space Agency (ESA) on the Copernicus anthropogenic carbon emissions monitoring mission, CO2M.
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