CNES teams up with the Copernicus WEkEO federation

EUMETSAT and CNES have signed an agreement that increases the volume of data available on the Copernicus WEkEO platform and provides new sources of information to users.

The signing of an agreement between the French Space Agency (CNES) and EUMETSAT means that CNES is now part of the WEkEO federation, which provides a platform that pools data and information from Copernicus Services and the European Sentinel satellites (wekeo.eu)

WEkEO is jointly operated by the Copernicus entrusted entities: EUMETSAT, ECMWF, the European Environment Agency (EEA) and Mercator Ocean International.

The WEkEO platform will now expand to include about 30 petabytes (pb) of data gathered by satellite missions operated by CNES. ...