Toulouse in competition with Saclay to host the future European weather centre

Who from Toulouse or Saclay will win? The two cities are neck-and-neck to host in France the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), which is now based in Reading, west of London. This move, which is the consequence of Brexit, would take place in two stages, with the first wave of transfers involving 150 […]

WEkEO V1 Launch on June 17th, 2020: Includes New Big Data Computing & Viewing Tools

A new version of the WEkEO DIAS platform, V1, will be launched on the 17th of June 2020. WEkEO is a cloud platform with a comprehensive portfolio of original Copernicus service and Sentinel satellite data, with harmonized data access, cloud infrastructure, and expert user support. At the end of 2016, the European Commission (EC) launched […]