alt Hacker NewsWould the data from this satellite be freely available to the public? I couldn't see anything obvious
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Core data is CC-BY-4.0, "recommended" data is licensed with a fee for certain commercial uses.
https://user.eumetsat.int/resources/user-guides/data-registr...
Unlikely. EU countries are consistently restrictive about access to this kind of data. Even when it is available, it often has odd restrictive licensing. This is an area where the US, with its liberal data access policies, is far ahead of Europe.
Something else to keep in mind is that the data products are extremely large. It would be expensive to give the public access. I used to host these types of data sets for EU countries. The workload just from authorized users is resource intensive, it doesn't scale cheaply. (I once woke up to find a metaphorical smoking crater where my server racks were because an authorized user shared his credentials with a few friends overnight.)
EUMETSAT publishes data as CC-BY 4.0 past a timeliness of 1 hour https://www.eumetsat.int/data-policy/eumetsat-data-policy.pd...
Look for your dataset here https://data.eumetsat.int/ (Note: you need registration but it is free).
As most EU projects yes. There was test data released last year to get you started.
https://user.eumetsat.int/resources/user-guides/getting-star...
There was a good CCC talk on pulling images from weather sats (and data from other satellites) - https://youtu.be/fM5w7bFNvWI?si=Dq6S6nYOE_frAd7b
It's been done before, but this was a great talk imo.
Yes, it will be freely available to the public
I guess you will be able to access the data with copernicus (usually thy even provide raw L0 data)
Definitely not in anything like realtime, maybe an archive. There's a licence fee of 8000EUR/yr to access real-time EUMETSAT data. Welcome to Europe, where you pay for everything twice.
As far as I can tell, they say: "Mission control and data distribution are managed by EUMETSAT." They have published their own blog post here: https://www.eumetsat.int/features/see-earths-atmosphere-neve...
There they say that: "Observations made by MTG-S1 will feed into data products that support national weather services …". So I guess there will be no simple, publicly available REST API or so... but if anybody finds anything, let us know here :)