15 –19 May 2017 / Lisbon, Portugal
The third International Ocean Colour Science (IOCS) meeting took place in Lisbon, Portugal, 15-18 May 2017. The event was held in partnership with, and thanks to sponsorship from, EUMETSAT, ESA, the target=”_blank”European Commission, NASA, Thales Alenia Space and Airbus.
The primary aim of this event was gathering together the ocean colour community in order to share ideas, issues, and suggestions from ocean colour researchers and companies with satellite agencies and data providers.
The IOCS-2017 programme included different activities, such as keynote lectures, breakout workshops and poster sessions. All the activities were focused on improving the skills of the global ocean colour user community, and promoting the exchanges of knowledge between users and international space agencies.
The IOCS event has been followed by two one-day-training workshops, one of them offered by EUMETSAT – the ‘Copernicus marine data stream training event’. The aim of the training was to explain to participants how to access the Copernicus Marine Data Stream (CMDS), which is provided by EUMETSAT, and how to work with data using SNAP software.
During the event a short overview about EUMETSAT Copernicus products was provided, plus an explanation of the most important functionalities of SNAP software and some practical examples on how to use data.