The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands recently signed an agreement which will improve the dissemination and democratisation of Earth observation (EO) satellite data for wetland protection. The agreement was made under a Memorandum of Understanding at a special ceremony alongside the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands’ 29th meeting of the […]
This article is the sixth in a series of seven articles describing the role and work of the CEOS Virtual Constellations. The series of articles is as follows: Atmospheric Composition (AC-VC) Land Surface Imaging (LSI-VC) Ocean Colour Radiometry (OCR-VC) Ocean Surface Topography (OST-VC) Ocean Surface Vector Wind (OSVW-VC) Precipitation (P-VC) (this article) Sea Surface Temperature […]
Note: Version 2.0 of the CEOS-ARD Aquatic Reflectance PFS is now available as of June 2025! View the updated PFS here or read more at ceos.org/ard. On 23 February 2022, CEOS’s Land Surface Imaging Virtual Constellation (LSI-VC) endorsed a new Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Product Family Specification (PFS) for Aquatic Reflectance (AR) products. Following the […]