16 to 20 April 2018 / Riga, Latvia
A marine applications training course was held in Riga in April, in collaboration with the LVGMC. Fifteen participants from around Europe worked for five days implementing their own work flows to download and process Sentinel-3 data from the Copernicus Marine Data Stream.
The applications they worked on were exceptionally broad, including the validation of operational sea state models, the use of temperature for recreational bathing and the impacts of renewable energy installations on coastal water quality. Participants made extensive use of the Sentinel Applications Platform (SNAP) and python. Virtual machines were tested as platforms to assist participants wishing to work with large volumes of data.
Excellent presentations were given by all candidates, a number of which are currently being developed for EUMETSAT Image Library case studies.