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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Century Schoolbook">Mika Odido<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b> Joana Betencourt <Joana.Betencourt@eumetsat.int> on behalf of E-mail Copernicus.training <Copernicus.training@eumetsat.int><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 18 May 2017 14:25<br>
<b>To:</b> E-mail Copernicus.training<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Training Event - Using the Copernicus Marine Data Stream for Ocean Applications; Online (October) & Ghana Classroom from 6 - 10 November 2017</font>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As part of the Copernicus</span>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Programme EUMETSAT, on behalf of the European Commission, is organising a blended training course on “Using the Copernicus Marine Data Stream for Ocean Applications”. The workshop will mainly focus on data
from the Ocean and Land Colour Imager (OLCI) and the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) both flown on the Sentinel 3 Satellite. F<b>ull details are given in the documents attached.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The<b> online phase </b>is scheduled<b> 23 October – 27 October 2017</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The<b> classroom phase in Accra,
</b>Ghana, will take place<b> 06 – 10 November 2017</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The workshop is dedicated to (early carrier) scientists in Africa: Master / PhD students, Post-Docs, and experienced scientists with an interest in working with satellite based ocean observation data. Participants
should have some working experience in SNAP and/or a scripting language such as R (or similar).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The deadline for application is
<b>4 August 2017</b>, which must be made using the online form at <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://training.eumetsat.int/course/view.php?id=158"><span lang="EN-US">http://training.eumetsat.int/course/view.php?id=158</span></a>
[enrolment instructions are in the attached information sheet]. Limited support of participation is available upon request. For further information, please contact
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copernicus.training@eumetsat.int</a>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone in your institute / network who might be interested in this training.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The event is hosted by ECOWAS Coastal & Marine Resources Management Centre at the University of Ghana, Legon.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Kind Regards</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">EUMETSAT Copernicus Training Team</span></p>
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