Data Centre - European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
Original (non-English) name
Acronym
Data Centre - EUMETSAT
Citation
Abstract
The EUMETSAT data centre provides a long-term archive of data and generated products from EUMETSAT, which can be ordered online.
The EUMETSAT data centre aims to:
- Guarantee a long-term preservation of data and generated products from EUMETSAT’s meteorological satellites.
- Enable users to browse, make automated orders, and retrieve data from EUMETSAT's catalogue of products.
Set up in 1995, the data centre has developed to become a state-of-the-art archive serving all EUMETSAT satellite programmes.
With around 300 meteorological satellite products available — in the case of Meteosat spanning a record of more than 30 years (since 1981) — the data centre offers one of Europe’s largest and most comprehensive collections in this field.
Currently around 5PB of data volume are stored in the data centre and made available to the data centre users. The charts below show the development of archive retrieval and ingestion over time.