CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites)

Thank you IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) for a great week at #IGARSS2024! CEOS was represented at a number of presentations and posters, and it was great to meet so many members of our community who passed by the booth NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration European Space Agency - ESA INPE Geoscience Australia German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Come visit the CEOS Booth #IGARSS2024! Near poster area 1 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)

CEOS now has an organisational account on GitHub! The following repos have been created to date, with more to come in future: - CEOS-ARD - AI/ML White Paper - Interoperability Handbook - Cloud-Native Geospatial EO Workshop - STAC Collection and Granule Discovery Best Practices - Jupyter Notebooks Best Practices - Open Search Best Practices We hope this platform will allow more engagement from the global EO community - please follow us and get involved in the discussions! https://lnkd.in/e8ghai35

#Newsletter article: Report from the 39th CEOS Strategic Implementation Team Meeting. Hear from SIT Chair JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency about the outcomes from the meeting on #ClimatePolicy and #GreenhouseGases, alongside other key priority topics Read it here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gG_gtY9a

The deadline for abstract submissions for the Pre-Flight Calibration Workshop has been extended! Abstracts will be accepted until 31 May, 2024. The workshop seeks to bring together, experts from industrial and academic developers of instruments, those specifying, designing and performing calibration and characterisation as well as scientists, engineers, New Space actors, agencies and funding organisations interested in: what is and/or might be possible for a next generation instrument or future application. The workshop will be organised to encourage discussion and debate on what is ‘fit for purpose’ for particular types of application. More information: https://lnkd.in/gkAyiBnY

Satellite Earth observations play a critical role in supporting the Essential Biodiversity Variables. Learn more about the work of CEOS and GEO BON to support this critical topic: https://lnkd.in/eTGzHBbd #Biodiversity #satellitedata

The World Economic Forum's report below highlights the importance of Earth observations in the global economy. Many members of the CEOS community contributed to the report, including Steven Ramage (CEOS Executive Officer) and Simonetta Cheli (ESA). "Standards like the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) and Analysis Ready Data (ARD) aim to ensure interoperability and maximize the value of geospatial data. They are industry-driven, with input from the open-source community in coordination with groups such as the Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)."

European Space Agency - ESA is hosting the Earth Solar Reflected Radiation Budget - TRUTHS for Climate Workshop in June 2024. Supported by CEOS WGCV, the workshop outcomes will contribute to the TRUTHS mission development plan and to the strategy to meet and serve the user communities. The workshop will combine plenary talks, posters and topical round tables, where additional material can interactively be displayed in support to the discussions. The objectives of the workshop are to: - Further develop and prepare the TRUTHS user communities; - Inform the community on project status and products; - Present latest practices and identify needs in Climate modelling and applications which TRUTHS’ unique observational capabilities can fulfil, directly with its measurements and indirectly by anchoring other missions delivering ECV-products; - Discuss intercalibration strategies and priorities to harmonise fundamental and thematic climate data records;  - Consolidate a holistic views of research areas and tools needed to maximise TRUTHS data benefits for Climate from Day-1; - Provide recommendations on the TRUTHS scientific preparation and on practical products access. More information: https://lnkd.in/gxkpZ9zh

CEOS is proud to host a workshop at SatSummit on Cloud Native Geospatial for Earth Observation. The workshop will use hands on practical exercises to explore the cloud native geospatial paradigm - including a real-world use case documenting land productivity metrics, which are used as part of monitoring for the #SDGs indicator 15.3.1. For more information and to register: https://lnkd.in/g6FHQ3CF Facilitated by Alex Leith, Caitlin Adams and David Borges

Happy #EarthDay! Great to see #satellite images from CEOS Agencies: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) / NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Centre National d'Études Spatiales European Space Agency - ESA / European Commission featured on #GoogleDoodle today! Satellite imagery is our most powerful tool to monitor Earth. CEOS coordinates the efforts of national and international organisations on all topics relating to Earth observation satellite data, including for #Biodiversity, #Climate, #SDGs and #Disasters. Learn more: ceos.org https://lnkd.in/g9cVdfUm