CEOS Development Environment

2024 SIT Technical Workshop

Event Dates: September 17th - 19th, 2024

Sydney, Australia

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Session 1: Welcome and Core Business

1.1: Welcome
1.2: 2024 CEOS Plenary Objectives & Planning
1.3: 2024-2026 CEOS Work Plan and SIT-39-01

Session 2: Greenhouse Gas Observation Coordination

2.1: Session Introduction
2.2: Greenhouse Gas Roadmap
2.3: Greenhouse Gas Best Practices
2.4: CEOS Greenhouse Gas Satellite Missions Portal 2024 Update
2.5: Other Greenhouse Gas Topics (For Discussion)

Session 3: Biodiversity 

3.1: Ecosystem Extent Task Team (EETT) Demonstrator Outcomes
3.2: Proposed Inputs for CEOS Plenary Decision Regarding the Future of CEOS and Biodiversity

Session 4: Working Group Priority Topics 

4.1: CEOS Engagement with the United Nations’ Early Warnings for All (EW4All) Initiative
4.2: CEOS Interoperability Handbook v2.0
4.3: Draft CEOS-CGMS Statement to UNFCCC COP 29 SBSTA 61
4.4: GCOS Implementation Plan Response and Essential Climate Variable (ECV) Inventory
4.5: Working Group Leadership Changes at Plenary

Session 5: Climate Policy Impact 

5.1: Introduction and Context
5.2: First UNFCCC Global Stocktake (GST) Lessons Learned Study
5.3: Discussion on Recommendations from GST #1 Lessons Learned
5.4: Ocean Colour Radiometry Virtual Constellation (OCR-VC)
5.5: Report on the July 2024 IPCC Expert Meeting on Reconciling Land Use Emissions

Session 6: GEO Post-2025 Work Programme 

6.1: CEOS Interaction with the GEO Post-2025 Work Programme

Session 7: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) 

7.1: CEOS AFOLU Roadmap
7.2: Biomass Harmonisation Activity Update
7.3: National Engagement

Session 8: Virtual Constellation Priority Topics 

8.1: Precipitation Virtual Constellation (P-VC)
8.2: Enhancing Remote Sensing Observations as a Focus of the United Nations’ Ocean Decade Activities (COAST-VC)
8.3: Joint SST-VC and COAST-VC Statement Recommending Masking Requirements in Coastal Areas for Upcoming SST Missions

Session 9: Other Business 

9.1: CEOS Carbon Roadmap Integration Needs
9.2: CEOS Systems Engineering Office (SEO) Report
9.3: CEOS Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Coordination Group
9.4: Letter of Enhanced Cooperation from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Science, Technology, and Innovation Unit – Update on CEOS External Request Process Paper Progress
9.5: CEOS Missions, Instruments and Measurements (MIM) Database Update
9.6: AquaWatch Australia Programme
9.7: United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC) 2025
9.8: Ocean Surface Topography Virtual Constellation (OST-VC) User Requirements Document update
9.9: 2025 CEOS Chair Themes
9.10: CEOS-ARD Strategy 2024

Session 10: Closing Session

10.1: Preliminary Action Review
10.2: CEOS Chair Nominations for 2026+
10.3: Closing Remarks