EUMETSAT Copernicus Marine Training and User Support

EUMETSAT provides user support and training for all users of the Copernicus Marine Data Stream (CMDS). The CMDS refers to all the level 1 and level 2 marine data from sensors on the Sentinel-3 and Jason-3 satellites, including ocean colour, sea surface temperature, and surface topography data. Details on the products and processing methodologies are available through handbooks, product notices, and a number of services including a help desk, and online forum. The training service aims to support all users wishing to explore potential applications of the CMDS. The service is primarily based around the delivery of two week, blended courses with both an online and classroom component.  The online component is hosted on a Moodle platform and uses a variety of prepared resources including short articles, videos, software installation, and basic software tutorials; supported by discussion forums, to prepare participants for the classroom phase. The classroom phase is focused on practical work, with no lectures given. Participants are led through examples of workflows using SNAP and Jupyter Notebooks/Python, and are then given one-on-one/small group trainer support to work for 3 days on personal projects that they defined during the online phase. These projects yield a diverse range of synergistic use cases of ocean remote sensing data for societally relevant applications The training service has also run a variety of collaborative courses with community led initiatives, and proposes to develop online courses and resources in response to community needs. Feedback and requests from the ocean remote sensing community are welcomed.