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I hope that ESA keeps pushing forward even more. I am afraid that although Sentinel missions are great, ESA projects are a bit demo-like and limited in scope. Europe should focus on scaling up and applying the tech, not just proving that ambitious projects are possible for their own sake.
Would the data from this satellite be freely available to the public? I couldn't see anything obvious
As most EU projects yes. There was test data released last year to get you started. https://user.eumetsat.int/resources/user-guides/getting-star...
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Well, at least in my experience with EU projects, they tend to be much more restrictive with data sharing than equivalent US institutions: e.g. a lot of paid EUMET data has publicly available NOAA equivalents - though usually of worse quality.
Yes! That government agencies data is PD is a nice feature of US law, we should implement that in EU.
I wonder if hobbyists would be able to pick up this data using some sort of RF capture device.
But: Meteosat is very famous for encrypting their stuff.
Europe Is back on the map. It´s going slow but steady. Hope they involve community in their tech projects.
ESA has done a lot of good for public benefit with the Sentinel-1/2 missions. I happen to work with remote sensing and Sentinel data has been my entry point to the field. I hope that ESA keeps pushing forward even more. I am afraid that although Sentinel missions are great, ESA projects are a bit demo-like and limited in scope. Europe should focus on scaling up and applying the tech, not just proving that ambitious p…
Europe Is back on the map. It´s going slow but steady. Hope they involve community in their tech projects.
Their stuff basically works 24/7/365 without causing much noise. With fully automated data intake processes.
Would the data from this satellite be freely available to the public? I couldn't see anything obvious
Definitely not in anything like realtime, maybe an archive. There's a licence fee of 8000EUR/yr to access real-time EUMETSAT data. Welcome to Europe, where you pay for everything twice.
https://www.goes-r.gov/multimedia/dataAndImageryImagesGoes-1...