2025 SIT Technical Workshop

Event Dates: September 9th - 11th, 2025

EUMETSAT Headquarters, Darmstadt, Germany

2025 CEOS SIT Technical Workshop Information Package

Agenda

Session 1: Welcome 

1.1: Welcome

Session 2: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)

2.1: Session Introduction

2.2: CEOS AFOLU Roadmap Implementation Update 

2.3: CEOS and the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI)

2.4: Capacity Building and Country Engagement

Session 3: EO Data Impact

3.1: CEOS/CGMS Working Group on Climate (WGClimate) Report

3.2: CEOS-CGMS Tiger Team Update

3.3: Review Draft CEOS Global Stocktake Strategy (Issue 2)

3.4: CEOS Engagement with IPCC

Session 4: Atmospheric Observations

4.1: GHG Task Team Update

4.2: Common Practices for Quantifying, Reporting, Validating, and Assessing Facility-Scale Methane Emissions, Issue 1 (Methane Common Practices) Implementation

4.3: GHG Mission Portal

4.4: International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) Collaboration

Session 5: Interoperability and Data Quality

5.1: CEOS Interoperability Handbook Update (v2.0)

5.2: CEOS Common Dictionary

5.3: WGCV Product Validation Platform

5.4: Future of CEOS Analysis Ready Data

5.5: CEOS Analytics Lab

Session 6: Other Thematic Topics

6.1: Aquatic Carbon Roadmap Update

6.2: Update on Canada’s WildfireSat Mission Expansion

Session 7: Virtual Constellations: State of the Global Observing System

7.1: Session Introduction

7.2: Atmospheric Composition (AC-VC)

7.3: Sea Surface Temperature (SST-VC)

7.4: Land Surface Imaging (LSI-VC)

7.5: Ocean Colour Radiometry (OCR-VC) 

7.6: Ocean Surface Topography (OST-VC)

7.7: Ocean Surface Vector Wind (OSVW-VC)

7.8: Precipitation (P-VC)

7.9: Coastal Observations Applications Services and Tools (COAST-VC) 

7.10: Refining Virtual Constellation Reporting to CEOS Leadership

7.11: Utilising the CEOS Missions, Instruments, Measurements (MIM) Database for Improved Virtual Constellation Observation Continuity Reporting

Session 8: Other Thematic Working Group and Virtual Constellation Topics

8.1: OST-VC White Paper on a Coordinated International Satellite Altimetry Virtual Constellation

8.2: Essential Agricultural Variables (EAVs) for the Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM)

8.3: Capacity Development Activities, Working Group on Capacity Building & Data Democracy (WGCapD) Updates

Session 9: Other Business

9.1: CEOS Systems Engineering Office (SEO) Report

9.2: EO For The Public Sector

9.3: Continuity of the ‘CEOS In Schools’ Initiative

9.4 2026 CEOS Chair Themes (Concept Note)

9.5: 2026-2027 SIT Chair Priorities

9.6: Leadership Changes at the 2025 CEOS Plenary

9.7: Proposal for the sustained presence of the topic of biodiversity within CEOS

• Draft Biodiversity Study Team Report and Recommendation
• Draft Biodiversity Virtual Constellation Terms of Reference
• Draft Biodiversity Virtual Constellation Implementation Plan

Session 10: Closing Session

10.1: Review of Actions and Decisions

10.2: 2025 CEOS Plenary Update

10.3: Thank you to Christine Bognar

10.4: Closing Remarks