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Watch this video from the EUMETSAT Copernicus Oceans from Space Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to get an overview of the programme and how EUMETSAT and the Copernicus Marine Service contribute. 

Web resources where you can find out more about EUMETSATs contributions to Copernicus.

Information from the European Space Agency (ESA) about their Copernicus activities.

Use this link to explore the role of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS).

This link provides an overview of how SAR works.

Follow this link to learn more about marine applications of Sentinel-1 compiled by ESA.

If you wish to undertake a course specifically on SAR in the future, you may wish to bookmark this one! 

Sentinel-1 data is accessible through the Open Access Hub. You can find out which data products are available, how to register, and different ways of searching and downloading data through this link.

Sentinel-2 data is accessible through the Open Access Hub. You can find out which data products are available, how to register, and different ways of searching and downloading data through this link.

Video from the MOOC "Oceans from Space" giving a 1-minute introduction to ocean colour data.

Video from the MOOC "Oceans from Space" discussing the benefit of Ocean Colour data in montoring and understanding the oceans and the climate system

Video from the MOOC "Oceans from Space" giving a 1-minute introduction to sea surface temperature data.

Video from the MOOC "Oceans from Space" discussing how SST data can be used for different applications, including understanding tropical storms.

Video from the MOOC "Oceans from Space" giving a 1-minute introduction to altimetry data.

Video from the MOOC "Oceans from Space" giving an brief overview of the history of altimetry data.

Within this book you will find summary information about the three main types of measurement that are made by the Sentinel-3 satellites (see the following book for specific information on the instrumentation) and make up the Copernicus Marine Data Stream from EUMETSAT.

Through this webpage and associated links you can access a lot of information about Sentinel-3 and related EUMETSAT services.

This video takes you on a tour of Sentinel-3 and its instruments using a life size model at EUMETSAT headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany.

Within this book you will find discussion about the Sentinel-3 instrumentation, and the historical sensors that influenced their development. 

A selection of videos providing additional information about the Sentinel-3 satellites from the European Space Agency

Within this book you will find two chapters. The first covers the processing that takes place to generate the data that is ultimately received by users of the CMDS. The second chapter goes in to the format of these data files, and the information that can be extracted from them.

This presentation provides you with an overview on the different ways to access EUMETSAT data

Read about how CMEMS data has been used to summarise the current state of the oceans.

Software designed for processing Sentinel-2 data for ocean applications. Please install this for use during the classroom phase. 

This guide will help you install the SNAP software for working with OLCI and SLSTR data.

This tutorial will give you a basic overview of using the SNAP software to work with Sentinel-3 data from the OLCI and SLSTR instruments (we will cover altimetry data and SRAL using Python, but you can also look in to the BRAT software should you wish). This is by no means an exhaustive tutorial. We encourage you to explore the software during the online phase of the course, and there will be further time to discuss SNAP in more detail during the classroom phase. You can ask questions/share useful tools you are working with in the discussion forum attached to this part of the course. We would also recommend signing up to the STEP user forum, where you can find much more information about SNAP and ask questions to both other users and the developers of the software. Further tutorials on some SNAP functionalities are available here.

Discussion about the different programming languages used within the marine remote sensing community, and their advantages and disadvantages.

This book will guide you through the installation process for Python, as well as give you some ideas for the sorts of ways Python can be used to work with Sentinel-3 data and beyond.

You may choose to not install Python if you wish to work in a different language during the classroom phase of this training. However, we will only be providing example scripts in Python.

We would recommend installing the anaconda distribution of python 3.7, as this is the version we have used to develop training material. Please note the additional packages that need to be installed.

Git is a free and open source version control system for computer files. It allows you to keep track of changes to files, and collaborate on them with others in a way that is well documented. It is most commonly used to develop and share programming code. 

Here are some useful beginners guides to working with Git and instructions for how to access the EUMETSAT training code repository.

Suggestions and ideas for how you could use Copernicus data during the classroom phase.