CEOS

The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) ensures international coordination of civil space-based Earth observation programs

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

📢 Catch up on the latest CEOS news with the CEOS Communications Q2 2026 Revisit:

https://t.co/kxWo1rk3ip

Including introduction by @EOTECDevNet

Subscribe so you don't miss future editions:
https://t.co/bS23E0fMSo

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

🛰️ Ten new satellites launched!

In the last quarter, CEOS Agencies launched ten new satellites, and we farewelled two long-running missions:
- @RymdstyrelsenSE (Sweden)'s Odin
- @CopernicusEU @ESA_EO's Sentinel-1A
Read more: https://t.co/OKWW4xm92b

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

✅ The Importance of Data Quality in Enabling Interoperability

The CEOS Interoperability Handbook highlights Quality as one of the key interoperability factors and provides nine recommendations to support interoperable EO systems.

Read more:
https://t.co/GFMl5HtcAQ

[Group on Earth Observations @GEOSecretariat]

🛰️ Four decades of collaboration. 67 members and associates. One shared goal: communicate, collaborate, and exchange information on EO activities, spurring partnerships that respond to stakeholder needs.

At the GEO-21 Plenary, @CEOSdotORG reaffirmed its commitment to GEO, driving interoperable satellite data addressing global challenges including disaster response, food security, biodiversity loss, and environmental resilience.

📜 https://t.co/W4COBYPzOK

#EarthIntelligenceforAll

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

📢 Don't miss tomorrow's webinar! Decision-Maker Perspectives on the Evolving Demand for EO Capacity Building

📅 17 June | 13:00–14:15 UTC
🔗 Registration: https://t.co/VFaeSVMm5D

[EOTEC DevNet @EOTECDevNet]

🛰️ New users. New technologies. New expectations. Is EO capacity building keeping pace? Explore this topic at our Wednesday webinar.

📅 17 June | 13:00–14:15 UTC
🔗 Register: https://t.co/7B0E4Ymi3S

📣Speaker info: https://t.co/lmoxQKIeU9

Hosts: @CEOSdotORG WGCapD/@EOTECDevNet

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

☁️ Atmospheric Composition meetings @ @SRON_Space

AC-VC & WGCV/ACSG met this week in Leiden, the Netherlands - discussing:

🛰️ Geostationary atmospheric composition constellation
💧 Water vapour
🌫️ Air quality
🎯 Calibration and validation
🔥 Fire and smoke
☁️ Greenhouse gases

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

📢 New CEOS-ARD products!

- @synspective's StriX series NRB product (SAR Normalised Radar Backscatter)
- constellr 's LSTprecision product (Land Surface Temperature)

Congratulations to both teams!

Learn more about CEOS-ARD:
https://t.co/fWIL1D1Pw0
@CEOSARD

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

🛠️ 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: https://t.co/9GMTAHjsxo

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

🏗️ 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:
https://t.co/t5NbvRVuwx

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

🌿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

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

☑️ 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

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

💬 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 @CEOSdotORG]

🛰️ 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

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

🤝  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!

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

💧 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!

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

🚀 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:
https://t.co/q6d8vMBp79

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

☁️ 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:
https://t.co/0KpeYbF1A2

@eumetsat

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

Future of CEOS-ARD Webinar Recording:
https://t.co/5b0OI1w1j5
Read the consultation paper & concept note:
https://t.co/3Ax8wmzDLD...
Thanks to @IEEE_GRSS for inviting @CEOSARD to speak!

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

📑 Read about the CEOS Interoperability Handbook from the CEOS Working Group on Information Systems & Services (WGISS) in the latest edition of the CEOS #Newsletter: https://t.co/1Beec8ceab

[CEOS @CEOSdotORG]

💬 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:
https://t.co/oTMFzgF8fl