Simon Kok Lupemba
Remote sensing scientist at the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). He works in the field of scatterometry, maintaining the scientific software used to process data from the current ASCAT instrument. He is also involved in the development of calibration and validation software for Europe’s next scatterometer, SCA, scheduled for launch in 2026. In addition to his scientific work, Simon actively promotes open-source development within EUMETSAT and is the author of MetopDataset.jl, EUMETSAT’s first Julia package.
Session
Earth system science needs user-friendly access to global observations. MetopDatasets.jl is a package to read native-format products from the Metop satellites, which play a key role in current global weather models through data assimilation. MetopDatasets.jl also demonstrates how the CommonDataModel.jl interface can be used to build a user-friendly reader for custom binary formats common in Earth sciences.