CEOS Development Environment

SIT-40

Event Dates: April 8th - 10th, 2025

Location: Daimyo Conference, Fukuoka, Japan

Travel Guide 

Presentations

Week at a Glance:

Documents

Presentations

Session 1: Welcome and Core Business

1.1: Welcome and Opening Remarks

1.2: EarthCARE Mission Update

1.3: SIT-40 Objectives and Action Review

1.4: CEOS 2025-2027 Work Plan

1.5: UKSA CEOS Chair Themes Update

Session 2: Coordination on Greenhouse Gas Observation

2.1: CEOS Greenhouse Gas Roadmap Actions and Progress

2.2: Best Practices for Remote Sensing-based Estimates of Facility-scale Methane Emissions

2.3: CEOS Engagement with the International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO)

2.4: CEOS Engagement with the WMO Global Greenhouse Gas Watch (G3W)

Session 3: Working Group Topics

3.1: Biodiversity Study Team Progress

3.2: WGISS Interoperability Handbook Issue 2

3.3: WGClimate Report

Session 4: EO Data Impact

4.1: Session Overview

4.2a: CEOS Engagement with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

4.2b: CEOS Engagement with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

4.3: Lessons Learned and Recommendations from Space Agencies’ Support for the First Global Stocktake

4.4: Updating the CEOS Global Stocktake Strategy (2021)

4.5: UNFCCC / COP / EID engagement

4.6: CEOS Aquatic Carbon Roadmap

4.7: Coordination among the CEOS AFOLU, GHG, and Aquatic Carbon Roadmaps

4.8: Unlocking EO for Public Service – SIT TW Side Event Overview

Session 5: Working Group Topics (cont.)

5.1: Match-up Database (WGCV)

5.2: CEOS Support for the UN’s Early Warnings for All (EW4All) Initiative

5.3: WMO Activities and Perspectives on the UN’s Early Warnings for All (EW4All) Initiative

Session 6: EO Data Impact – Country Engagement

6.0: SIT Chair Team Session Intro

6.1a: Report on the WGClimate-22 National Emission Estimates Trial Session

6.1b: Report on the WGClimate-22 National Emission Estimates Trial Session

6.2: Candidate Initiatives to Improve Country Engagement and Uptake of Space-based EO Data

6.3: Cambodia National Case Study

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

Session 7: Virtual Constellation Topics

7.1: Priority Coastal Areas for Thermal Infrared Measurements

7.2: UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)

7.3: JAXA Space Applications for Environment CH4Rice Project (rice paddy field methane)

7.4: CEOS Response to the Essential Agriculture Variables (EAVs)

7.5: New Missions for Global Precipitation Measurement

7.6: Land Surface Imaging Virtual Constellation (LSI-VC) Report

7.7: Virtual Constellation Synthesis Report 

Session 8: Other Business

8.1: Report on the Third International Workshop for Coordination of International Spaceborne SAR Missions 

8.2: Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Coordination Group Report 

8.3: Concluding Step-C of the External Request Process of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Approach to CEOS

8.4: CEOS Systems Engineering Office (SEO) Report 

8.5: WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS) 2050 Vision Update and CEOS Participation

8.6: Space4Ocean Alliance

Session 9: Closing Session

9.0: Any Other Business (AOB) MIM Database

9.1: Review of SIT-40 Draft Actions and Decisions

9.2a: Closing Remarks

9.2b: Update on the 2025 SIT Technical Workshop

9.2c: Update on the 2025 CEOS Plenary