CEOS Development Environment

SIT-41

Event Dates: April 14th - 16th, 2026

Irvine, California, USA

Hosted by NASA at the Beckman Center of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM)

Agenda

 

Presentations

Side Meetings

Biodiversity
Value Chain

Session 1: Welcome and Core Business

1.1: Welcome and Opening Remarks
1.3: SIT-41 Objectives
1.4: Review of 2025 CEOS Plenary Actions
1.5: CEOS Document Status and Handling Framework
1.6: CEOS Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Process Paper
1.7: CEOS 2026-2028 Work Plan

Session 2: Connected Data for Community Resilience

2.1: 2026 CEOS Analysis Ready Data (CEOS-ARD) Strategy
2.2: WGISS Interoperability Maturity Matrix
2.3: WGISS Interoperability Demonstrators
2.4: CEOS Analytics Lab Resilience Interoperability Demonstrator
2.5: CEOS Value Chain
2.6: Impact Assessment
2.7: CEOS Chair Resilience Theme Introduction
2.8: 2026 Earth Observation Handbook & Missions, Instruments and Measurements (MIM) Database Update
2.9: Opportunities for CEOS Support to Adaptation & Resilience

Session 3: Early Warnings for All

3.1: Introduction to Early Warnings for All (EW4All)
3.2: EW4All in the Asia-Pacific Region: Ensuring Data Access
3.3: WGDisasters EW4All Subgroup

Session 4: Other Business

4.1: Establishment of a CEOS Biodiversity Virtual Constellation (B-VC)
4.2: CEOS Organisational GitHub Governance
4.3: 2026-2027 CEOS Communications Strategy
4.4: CEOS in Schools: 2026 Programme Update
4.5: International Coordination Group for Spaceborne SAR (ICGS-SAR) Update

Session 5: Water Planet

5.1: First Water Quality Workshop Outcomes
5.2: SIT Chair Water Planet Activities
5.3: Aquatic Carbon Roadmap
5.4: Validation of Atmospheric Observations Over the Oceans

Session 6: Adaptation and Resilience: Thematic Topics

6.1: Earth Fire Alliance & CalFire
6.2: International Charter: Space and Major Disasters
6.3: LSI-VC Subgroup for Wildfire Observation Coordination
6.4: CEOS Wildfire Portal
6.5: WGDisasters Pilot Projects

Session 7: Working Group & Virtual Constellation Topics

7.1: Essential Agriculture Variable (EAV) Stocktake
7.2: Virtual Constellation Synthesis Report
7.3: WGCV Land Product Validation (LPV) Subgroup Land Cover and Change Map Accuracy Assessment and Area Estimation Good Practices Protocol
7.4: Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) Roadmap Update
7.5: Expanding the Geostationary Atmospheric Composition Constellation: Toward Global Coverage
7.6: WGCapD and EOTEC DevNet

Session 8: Closing Session

8.1: NOSA 2027 CEOS Chair Priorities Preview
8.3: Closing Remarks