Supporting Marine Earth Observation Applications

From the 24 February to the 14 March 2025, EUMETSAT will organise its 2025t version of the Supporting Marine Earth Observation Applications (SMA) course. This course will introduce its participants to our marine data catalogue and will help them develop workflows that support their own application-specific goals. If you wish to learn about, or work more extensively with our satellite derived, ocean colour, sea surface temperature, altimetry, sea ice or wind data, then we encourage you to apply. This year, the course will be organised in partnership with the University of Hull.

The focus will be on data streams from EUMETSAT Copernicus marine missions (Sentinel-3; Sentinel-6) and derived downstream products, those derived from Copernicus supporting missions, and those made available by the Ocean and Sea-Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF).

Training will take place entirely online and through two phases, which will be support by experts in the relevant fields:

• The first, self-paced phase will take place between 24 February and 14 March 2025 and will take approximately 9-15 hours in total to complete. It will involve self-paced flexible learning through webinars, forums and technical checks (particularly for software installations), documentation and assignments.
• The second, virtual classroom phase will be take place between 17 March and 21 March 2024 using Zoom and other collaborative tools. This phase will be made up of interactive tutorials, live demos, group work, and 1:1 meetings. During this intensive week, which will require 5-8 hours of participation each day, we will focus on co-creating a mini-project directly relevant to your application of interest.