SPICE is an information system that uses ancillary data to provide Solar System geometry information to scientists and engineers for planetary missions in order to plan and analyze scientific observations from space-born instruments. SPICE is developed and maintained by the Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) team of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA). NAIF and the ESA SPICE Service (ESS) provide SPICE Training Courses on a yearly basis, these are three-day courses which are hosted either nearby Pasadena (California, USA) or nearby Madrid (Spain).

ESS offers a training session on SPICE aimed at scientists and engineers who want to be introduced to SPICE or who might be considering attending a complete SPICE Training.

During this course a brief introduction to SPICE will be provided and it will be followed by a practical hands-on lesson of a SPICE application based on a remote sensing observation scenario. We will also go through WebGeocalc, SPICE-Enhanced Cosmographia 3D Visualization Software and some Python packages.

The envisaged agenda for the Seminar will be:

1-Introducing SPICE the cool way: Cosmographia.
2-Cosmographia & WebGeocalc demo
3-Brief introduction to ESS and SPICE Kernels 4-Questions & Answers 5-Remote Sensing Hands-on lesson 6-Questions & Answers and close-out

Training Material: All the training material will be provided with GitHub, using the ESS account: https://github.com/esaSPICEservice/ material will be provided as reference documents and with Jupyter Notebooks.