## 3 Outcomes  
### Users and Reach  
The current collection of satellite-focused lessons, courses, and instructional content available on MetEd provides learners worldwide with the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to put satellite products relevant to their work and studies to use. Along with the functional impact associated with the content COMET provides, one of the clearest benefits of MetEd is its worldwide reach. As of April 2019, MetEd has approximately 600,000 registered users (Figure 9). Of those users, nearly 200,000 are dispersed across over 190 different countries and territories outside the United States, and the total number of users in both categories has been steadily increasing. Due to the international nature of the science, applications, and satellite capabilities addressed in our lessons, they are applicable to interested learners around the globe. Figure 8: Title page screenshots for four recent event-focused satellite training lessons on MetEd. The largest portion of MetEd users are affiliated with educational institutions. Along with providing training support for numerous meteorological agencies in the US and abroad, our instructional materials serve as reinforcement for instruction taking place at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Because MetEd serves learners across multiple institutions worldwide, including university students and faculty, the materials available support professional development throughout the entire career lifecycles of meteorological and geoscience professionals. International users account for just over 30% of total sessions on MetEd (Figure 10). Many international learners participate in satellite training via MetEd through the WMO VLab, a global network of training centers and meteorological satellite operators focused on improving the utilization of data and products from environmental satellites. Other international efforts include lessons produced as part of the African Satellite Meteorology Education and Training (ASMET) project, a joint effort between EUMETSAT, COMET, and meteorology instructors from several African nations. These lessons focus on specific examples for enhancing weather forecasts using meteorological satellite imagery and products. Figure 9: Cumulative number of users on MetEd from 2007 to present (April 2019). MetEd’s reach, both internationally and overall, has increased continuously, with approximately 600,000 learners currently registered on the site. Given the volume of session use by international learners on MetEd, it has become imperative that COMET provide translated materials for learners to be able to complete the training in the language of their choice. COMET employs a full-time translator to be able to offer its training materials in languages other than English. Many of COMET's GOES-R resources, for example, have been translated into both Spanish and Portuguese and are available through a dedicated multilingual resource page ([[https://www.meted.ucar.edu/satmet/goes_resources/index.html](https://www.meted.ucar.edu/satmet/goes_resources/index.html)]([https://www.meted.ucar.edu/satmet/goes_resources/index.html](https://www.meted.ucar.edu/satmet/goes_resources/index.html))). These resources include the GOES-R Satellites Orientation Course, consisting of three longer-format lessons, which was created in 2014 prior to the launch of the first satellite in the GOES-R series. Spanish and Portuguese translations of this course were made available following the release of the English lessons. MetEd's total number of satellite meteorology focused resources has grown considerably over the years (Figure 11). By around 2012, COMET was focusing significant efforts on infusing satellite products into other training areas, including aviation, marine weather, and fire weather. Along with these efforts to integrate satellite products into non-satellite-specific topics, COMET's sponsors also began requesting more dedicated, satellite-specific trainings.