Tag: Metop
Tracking desert locusts with satellite services
This year brought a locust crisis to Eastern Africa, threatening food supplies in an already troubled time.
Smoke from exceptional California wildfires reach Europe
The fires wreaking havoc in California have produced massive amounts of smoke, causing some areas to be lined with falling ash and transforming the normal light of day into eerie orange skies.
Insight into Jasmin Vural’s life as a fellow
Delving further into our continuing series on fellowships, we talked to Jasmin Vural, who is almost done with hers.
Vasileios Barlakas shares his experience as a fellow with us
Continuing our series on fellowships, we talked to Vasileios Barlakas, who is halfway through his and talked to us about his stint so far.
Looking back over a year of weather
We've just published our annual "Year of Weather" video for 2019 and once again, many significant weather events took place across the globe.
Metop operations – working as a Spacecraft Engineer at EUMETSAT
As part of our "Inside EUMETSAT" series, we sat down to have a chat with Richard Dyer!
First interferogram from Metop-C’s IASI instrument
On 14:19 on 10 December 2018, the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer on board Metop-C performed its first measurement.
Industrial and agricultural ammonia point sources exposed
The Atmospheric Spectroscopy Group at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) have been using the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) onboard Metop satellites to identify global ammonia hotspots, and they have kindly shared their findings with us.
Metop-C – where is it now?
EUMETSAT’s polar-orbiting satellite Metop-C is now flying in its final operating orbit, in a tri-star constellation with Metop-A and –B, after a recent series of manoeuvres.