Reliable and user-friendly handling of earth observation uncertainty data with CoMet Toolkit
A year on from its initial public release, the NPL-developed CoMet toolkit has been used in several earth observation projects, including MetEOC, and recognised for the value it offers to the earth observation community. Environmental observations made by satellites and in-situ measurement networks provide data that forms the basis of scientific understanding of the state of the climate. Such datasets need to contain information about the associated uncertainties to be accepted as credible and reliable — the handling of which can be a complex and, potentially, error-prone process. Moreover, as multiple measurements are typically combined through processing chains, reliably handling this information can seem overly time-consuming for non-specialists. A simpler way to store and propagate uncertainty and error-correlation information Metrological …