CEOS Development Environment

WGISS-60

Event Dates: October 13th - 17th, 2025

October 13th – 17th, 2025
Location: Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Hosted by DLR

Meeting information

Agenda: v1.1

 

 

 

 

Presentations

Session 1: Opening Session

1.1 – Welcome & Review of Agenda

1.2 – Keynote from DLR

1.3 – CEOS Executive Officer Report

1.4 – SEO Report

1.5 – Data Preservation & Stewardship Interest Group (DSIG)Work Plan

1.6 – Data Discovery & Access Interest Group (DAIG) Work Plan

1.7 – Technology Exploration Interest Group (TEIG) Work Plan 

1.8 – Data Interoperability & Use Interest Group (DIIG) Work Plan

1.9 – Select Action Review

1.10 – Living Planet Symposium: Key Takeaways for WGISS 

Session 2: Agency Reports

2.1 – NASA 

2.2 – NOAA 

2.3 – JAXA

2.4 – USGS 

2.5 – UKSA

2.6 – CNES

2.7 – ESA

2.8 – ISRO

2.9 – Geoscience Australia

Session 3: EO Data Citation Guidelines

3.1 – EO Collection Data Citation Guidelines – Introduction

3.2 – EO Collection Data Citation at WGISS Agencies

Session 4: Data Access

4.1 – Federated Authentication and Authorization (AuthN/Z) White Paper status

4.2 – ESA-DLR Across repository data discovery, access and management

4.3 – CWIC and STAC

4.4 – EOEPCA Open Source EO Data Exploitation Platform

4.5 – Discussion: Data in the cloud

Session 5: WGISS Connected Data Assets

5.1 – WGISS Connected Data Assets Overview

5.2 – FedEO Update

5.3 – IDN Update

5.4 – Data Assets Integration process – Use Cases

5.5 – CSIRO Integration

Session 6: Biodiversity

6.1 – Review of Biodiversity Study Team (BST) progress

6.2 – Discussion: Identifying CEOS Agency resources to fill gaps
identified by BST

Session 7: Data Management – Replicas & Big Data

7.1a – Replica Datasets: Introduction

7.1b – Summary of WGISS-55 Data Replicas Discussion

7.1c – DLR’s Approach to Replica Datasets

7.1d – Replica Datasets: Discussion & Next Steps

7.2 – Discussion: ‘Big Data’ 

Session 8: Preservation Topics

8.1 – Data Collection Appraisal Procedures

8.2 – LSI-VC Framework to Support the Unlocking of Commercial EO Archives for the Public Good

8.3 – CEOS Purge Alert Procedure

8.4 – NASA Archive Cloud Policy

8.5 – Software Preservation White Paper Concept and Status

8.6 – OAIS reference Model and Typology of Archive – Use Cases

 

Session 9: Heritage Dataset Recovery

9.1 – Status of AVHRR data recovery work

9.2 – Updated differences between AVHRR L1b/1c satellites products

9.3 – CSIRO & Uni Bern AVHRR Project Alignment

9.4 – Heritage Dataset Recovery

9.5 – C3S Data Rescue Projects

9.6 – EUMETSAT data rescue activities and creation of F(C)DR

Session 10: AI/ML

10.1 – AI/ML White Paper Report

10.2 – EO Advanced AI Assistant

10.3 – CORSA AI Compression for Terrascope Products

10.4 – Supporting Weather and Climate Application Development with ML-Friendly Earth Observation Data 

Session 11: Interoperability Handbook and Maturity Matrix

11.1 – Session introduction

11.2 – Vocabulary (Semantics) 

11.3 – Architecture

11.4 – Interface

11.5 – Policy

11.6 – Maturity Matrices: Data Management & Stewardship, Cal/Val and Interoperability

11.7 – Quality

11.8 – Interoperability Handbook

Session 12: Interoperability Demonstrators

12.1 – WGCV demonstrator: Surface Reflectance Quality and Consistency

12.2 – WGClimate Climate Data Record (CDR) Inventory Overview

12.3 – Decision-ready data

12.4 – Hawaii Supersite: activities, dataset, outcomes and lessons learnt from WGDisasters

12.5 – Discussion: brainstorming other Interoperability demonstrators

Session 13: CEOS Common Dictionary

13.1 – Overview of CEOS Common Dictionary

13.2 – Review of tricky terms 

Session 14: Closing Session

14.1 – Communications Update

14.2 – Action Review

14.3 – Closing Remarks

Session 15: Digital Twins

15.1 – Harmonization of Mutli-Resolution Geospatial Data in GeoSpatial Digital Twin Framework

15.2 – Irish National Framework for Digital Twins

15.3 – Interactive Session on EO for Digital Twins