2025 SIT Technical Workshop
2025 CEOS SIT Technical Workshop Information Package
Presentation template: PPT
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