Save the date: EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference

Journalists and content creators are welcome to attend EUMETSAT’s annual conference, where experts from around the world will discuss the latest developments in satellite meteorology and climate science.

Alternatively, plenary sessions will be live-streamed on EUMETSAT’s YouTube channel and interviews with speakers, from early-career to expert scientists and engineers, can be arranged.

The theme of this year’s conference is, “The Earth observation value chains for weather, climate and hydrosphere”. The conference is co-hosted by the German Meteorological Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst).

A brief overview of conference topics is given below.

More detailed information, including the programme, can be found on our website (click on “custom view” on left-hand side).

Conference proceedings will be conducted in English. Interviews in German, French, Italian, and other European languages can be arranged on request.

To indicate your interest in attending the conference, or in arranging an interview with speakers, please contact @email

Session topics:

• Introductory session on 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