The conference was co-hosted by the German Meteorological Service, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), and had the theme “Earth observation value chains for weather, climate and hydrosphere”.
Conference sessions during the five-day event covered the following topics:
- International Earth observation systems
- Meteosat Third Generation product evaluation and scientific assessment, utility in application domains such as nowcasting and its preliminary contribution to numerical weather prediction
- Upcoming Earth observation missions, including microwave constellations, new wind measurements and altimetry
- How artificial intelligence, machine learning and cloud-based platforms will accelerate use of satellite data
- Using satellite observations to assess climate variability and change
- Moving toward a full Earth system approach in weather prediction
- Data and products for emerging services, such as wildfires, volcanic eruptions, chemical compounds release, energy, flash flood rapid warnings
- Data access and cloud technologies
