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    Short Course: Visualising Fires in Spain through Sentinel-3 data

     25 November 2025, 12:00 UTC or 13:30 UTC

    During the summer of 2025, Spain has once again faced an intense wildfire season, highlighting the urgent need for accurate and timely monitoring of fire activity. This 1.5-hour training provides a concise introduction to how EUMETSAT data and tools can be used to visualise and analyse fire events across Spain and Europe.

    The session will begin with a brief background on fires in Europe in 2025, setting the scene by exploring the environmental context and the role of satellite Earth Observation in detecting and tracking wildfires. Participants will then watch a guided demonstration of how to download fire-related datasets using the EUMETSAT Data Store graphical interface (DS GUI), showing how to access the most relevant satellite products.

    The webinar will continue with an explanation and live demonstration of EUMDAC, the command-line interface for automated data access, followed by a walkthrough of a Jupyter Notebook that illustrates how these datasets can be processed and visualised. A real wildfire use case will drive the entire session, ensuring continuity as the same dataset is explored across different tools, from initial data discovery to final visualisation.

    The Data products utilised in this course will be: S3 NRT AOD and S3 NRT FRP.

    Participants will receive an email with links to Data Access video tutorials and key resources to revisit the demonstrations and deepen their understanding after the course.

    Expected outcomes

    Participant will:

    • Users will know which data are available from EUMETSAT/ Copernicus services
    • Users will be able to independently find resources and guides related to Atmospheric data within EUMETSAT within the User Portal
    • Users will be able to familiarize themselves with EUMETSAT downloading tools, such as Data Store/Data Tailor through Web Service and EUMDAC (Jupyter Notebooks)
    • Users will become familiar with visualising fires.

    Agenda:

    The webinar will be broken into 5 sections:

    • Introduction and padlet 
    • Theory of EUMETSAT, Fires and related products
    • Download fire products through Data Store Graphical User Interface
    • Demonstration of two Jupyter Notebooks
    • Q&A

  • Course assessment and feedback

    This section contains the course feedback form. We would appreciate your feedback on our course, as this will allow us to improve future iterations. Please answer the survey -> https://app.sli.do/event/stRuBkG2x7t5rEPKFMHZqf

  • How to participate

    We'll meet you on Zoom Webinar 

    Zoom is a web-based video conferencing tool with a local, desktop client and a mobile app that allows us to meet online. You do not need an account to join the session. To join, simply click the link provided when registering. You can register for the course via our event page. (Troubles joining?)

    Here are a few tips you may consider:

    1. For better audio quality, please prepare a headset with a microphone.
    2. Join 5-10 minutes early to test your audio. Here is how to do it. 
    3. Use your real name. 

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    Course access

    This page will remain openly accessible until 1 day before the course commences. To access the course materials after this time, you will need to register, for free, for an account on our Moodle platform. You can register for an account at https://classroom.eumetsat.int/login/signup.php. Once you have an account you will be able to enroll in the course.

    Enrolling in the course will allow you to:

    • access the course materials long term
    • access the webinar recording (which will also be posted on YouTube)
    • ask follow up questions to the trainers
    • receive a course certificate upon completion of a short assessment and feedback form
     

  • Recording and resources

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