LSI-VC-18

Event Dates: September 3rd - 5th, 2025

European Commission Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC), Ispra, Italy.

Hosted by EC-JRC

Agenda: PDF | DOC

Presentations

Session 1: Welcome and Introductions

1.1: Welcome from Ivan Kulis (EC)

1.2: Welcome

1.3: Summary of outcomes from ‘Day 0’ CEOS-ARD Building Blocks and GitHub Development Workshop and CEOS-ARD Oversight Group Meeting

Session 2: Thematic Land Surface Imaging Topics and LSI-VC Subgroup Reports

2.1: Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS)

2.2: Wetlands and the Ramsar Convention

2.3: CEOS Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) Roadmap

2.4: LSI-VC GEOGLAM (Agriculture) Subgroup

Session 3: Agency / Company Reports

3.1: KARI

3.2: CONAE

3.3: U.S. Geological Survey

3.4: ISRO

3.5: CATALYST

3.6: Landsat Collection 3 Update

3.7: GISTDA

3.8: Marble Imaging

3.9: JAXA

Session 4: Land Surface Imaging Data Assessment and Procurement

4.1: Unlocking Commercial EO Archives for Public Good

4.2: ESA Third Party Missions (TPM) and Copernicus Contributing Missions (CCM) Programme Overviews

4.3: ESA-NASA Joint Quality Assessment Framework and CEOS-ARD Connections

4.4: Specific ESA EDAP Updates

4.5: Specific NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Updates

Session 5: Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN)

5.1: GEO Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Flagship

Session 6: Analysis Ready Data Standards

6.1: Discussion on topics related to the standardisation of ‘Analysis Ready Data’ and formulation of CEOS positions/strategies 

6.2: ARD Standards Decisions and Actions Revisit

Session 7: Surface Temperature CEOS-ARD Specification

7.1: Background on the Surface Temperature (ST) CEOS-ARD Product Family Specification 

7.2: Copernicus Land Surface Temperature Monitoring (LSTM) Mission Update

7.3: SatVu

7.4: Constellr

7.5: Ororatech

7.6: Discussion

Session 8: Future CEOS-ARD

8.1: Overview of the Future of CEOS-ARD Initiative

8.2: Overview of “Future of CEOS-ARD Survey” Results

8.3: Discussion: Draft Future of CEOS-ARD Concept Note

8.4: EarthDaily

Session 9: CEOS-ARD Framework

9.1: Optical CEOS-ARD PFS Requirements Consolidation updates

9.2: CEOS-ARD Framework update to include a new product level classification / taxonomy

9.3: Surface Reflectance Quality and Consistency

9.4: Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS)

Session 10: Other Topics

10.1: Discussion: Confirm LSI-VC positions on potential new CEOS Virtual Constellations for biodiversity and Synthetic Aperture Radar

10.2: Discussion on future events 

Session 11: Closing

11.1: Wrap up