CEOS

🛠️ CEOS Analytics Lab: a cloud-based platform developed by the CEOS SEO, @CSIRO, and the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Centre for Earth and Space. A collaborative, scalable environment for data analysis for use by the CEOS community. Learn more: ceos.org/news/ceos-anal…

🏗️ Architecture for Interoperability: Building the Foundations The CEOS Interoperability Handbook describes 25 key recommendations across three key architectural components: preservation, data and metadata, and publishing. Read more: ceos.org/news/interoper…

🌿New Biodiversity Virtual Constellation (B-VC)! Mission: to advance biodiversity understanding, monitoring, and application for the benefit of society by strengthening the community’s use of space-based Earth observations and data products. 📷 B-VC team @GEOBON_org

☑️ Thanks to everyone who joined last Friday's CEOS Analysis Ready Data Oversight Group Meeting, covering topics in: 🔨 Compliance Automation & Scalable Peer Review 📈 Adoption, Enablement & Impact 🌎 Initiatives to support the 2026 CEOS-ARD Strategy 📝 CEOS-ARD PFS Updates

💬 LSI-VC-19 & WGCV-56 @USGS_EROS Discussing: 📄 2026 CEOS-ARD Strategy 🎯 Calibration and Validation networks ⛰️ Land surface imaging thematic topics ⚖️ Expressing uncertainty 🤝 Commercial engagement + tours of the EROS Center and Cal/Val field site 😎

🛰️ CEOS @ #JACIE2026 CEOS hosted an exhibition booth, as well as a dedicated side meetings on the CEOS-ARD strategy for feedback from commercial providers; and RadCalNet - looking at the network and its future from both end user and operator perspectives. @USGS

🤝  41st Strategic Implementation Team Meeting This week, CEOS met in Irvine, CA, USA, at the @theNASEM Beckman Center - the first meeting of the @NASAEarth SIT Chair term. Discussed: 🌎 Adaptation and resilience 🌿 Biodiversity 💧 Water Planet 🔥 EO for Disasters And more!

💧 Today, CEOS Agencies and hydrology experts met in Irvine, California, USA, for the first CEOS Water Quality Workshop: Remote Sensing of Water Quality: Requirements for Comprehensive Catchment-to-Coast Observation Looking forward to continuing the discussions in September!

🚀 In Q1 2026, CEOS Agencies successfully launched ten new EO satellites. Congratulations to @ASI_spazio, @roscosmos & @ESA_EO on their launches! Read more - including upcoming launches - in the @eohandbook quarterly report: ceos.org/mim-reports/q1…

☁️ Explore the new Climate Data Record Inventory - an open resource from the joint CEOS #CGMS Working Group on Climate to explore existing and planned CDRs from space agency sponsored activities worldwide. Find out more: ceos.org/news/cdr-inven… @eumetsat

Future of CEOS-ARD Webinar Recording: youtu.be/oU4iDi9_-a4?si… Read the consultation paper & concept note: ceos.org/.../Future%20o…... Thanks to @IEEE_GRSS for inviting @CEOSARD to speak!

📑 Read about the CEOS Interoperability Handbook from the CEOS Working Group on Information Systems & Services (WGISS) in the latest edition of the CEOS #Newsletter: earth.jaxa.jp/ceos-newslette…

💬 Vocabulary Interoperability: Speaking the Same Language The CEOS Interoperability Handbook describes 14 recommendations to improve the interoperability of vocabulary - also known as semantic interoperability. Read more: ceos.org/news/interoper…

✅ Ensuring Quality and Fit-for-purpose Data with the CEOS-FRM Assessment Framework 📐 The CEOS Fiducial Reference Measurement (FRM) framework provides quality assurance for satellite operators and their calibration and validation data needs. Read more: ceos.org/news/fiducial-…

🇮🇳 WGISS-61 & WGDisaster-25 in India! Topics of discussion include: 🖇️ Interoperability 🔎 Data discovery & access 🏛️ Data preservation & heritage dataset recovery 🏔️ New disaster pilots: biodiversity, wildfires, landslides & droughts 🛠️ Recovery Observatory @isro @isroiirs

🗞️Read the latest CEOS Analysis Ready Data (CEOS-ARD) Newsletter: ceos.org/news/ceos-ard-… Hear about updates on: ✔️ The Future of CEOS-ARD and 2026 CEOS-ARD Strategy 🛰️ New CEOS-ARD Products in 2025 📄 Product Family Specification Updates 🤝 Commercial Sector Collaboration

📢 One week left to submit your case studies! The 2026 @eohandbook on Adaptation and Resilience will include a case study atlas - contribute your stories here: eohandbook.com/2026casestudies Thanks to everyone who has submitted so far - keep them coming! @ESA_EO

🛰️ CEOS at the @NASA CSDA Program Technical Interchange Workshop Medhavy Thankappan presented on behalf of CEOS, highlighting the role of public space agencies in supporting commercial providers with calibration and validation, as well as standards to support interoperability

🗞️ 2025 CEOS Newsletter Round-Up - catch up on what you missed from CEOS in 2025 with the Newsletter Round-Up: earth.jaxa.jp/ceos-newslette… Subscribe to the CEOS Newsletter to recieve the latest articles in your inbox: earth.jaxa.jp/ceos-newslette… @JAXA_en

The 2026 CEOS Chair, Team Australia (@CSIRO , @GeoscienceAus, @BOM_au), is focusing their activities under the headline theme "Positioning for success in a rapidly changing context". Read about the activities planned in the latest CEOS #newsletter article earth.jaxa.jp/.../positionin…