🔥 Wildfire Coordination: Strengthening Global Fire Monitoring from Space
🛰️ CEOS Wildfire Missions Portal: ceos.org/wildfires
👥 CEOS International EO Wildfire Coordination Group within LSI-VC
🍂 WGDisasters Wildfire Preparedness Pilot
ceos.org/news/wildfire-coord…
📚 Evolution of the Earth Observation Handbook - from the first edition in 1992 to 'Satellite Observations in Support of Adaptation and Resilience' to be released in November 2026
arcg.is/1bGOP04
📝 Mailing list: lnkd.in/g-nySTQC
🌋 EO for Disaster Risk Management
WGDisasters met last week in Rome, Italy, hosted by @ASI_spazio - alongside a workshop was held to facilitate discussions with the international scientific, institutional and industrial community working in the field of Disaster Risk Management
⛰️ Land Surface Imaging & @CEOSARD @ @USGS HQ
Great feedback from the community regarding the adoption of CEOS-ARD standards - with many providers, both civil and commercial, now providing or developing CEOS-ARD compliant products 🛰️
CEOS-ARD products:
ceos.org/ard#datasets
🚰 Remote Sensing of Water Quality: Requirements for Comprehensive Catchment-to-Coast Observation
2nd Water Quality Workshop was held on 11 Sept 2026 - aiming to breakdown barriers between communities, to create integrated solutions to inform water management practices
🛠️ CEOS SIT Technical Workshop 2026
This week, the CEOS Community gathered in Washington DC, USA, for the 2026 SIT Technical Workshop - hosted by @NASAEarthData
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the discussions!
👥 2026 CEOS EO Data Providers Collaboration Forum - hosted by @NASA@NASAEarthData
Convened representatives from CEOS, along with Earth Observation data provider companies, to discuss the evolving linkages between civil and private sector Earth observation systems.
🌐 Which global DEM should you use?
The DEM Intercomparison Exercise (DEMIX) put free, open and global DEMs to the test to help users identify which DEM products perform best for different applications, terrains, and geographies.
🔗 ceos.org/news/demix/
🔎 Interoperable Interfaces: Enabling Machine-to-Machine Access
Interface is one of the key interoperability factors, with recommendations across three areas: Data Discovery, Data Access, and Authentication and Authorisation.
ceos.org/news/interoperabili…
At #IGARSS2026? Catch CEOS in the exhibition hall!
The team are also presenting two papers this week:
🗺️EO-GPT: An Open Source AI Framework for Earth Observation Analysis
🛰️COVELib: An Open-Source Library for Satellite Coverage and Coincidence Analysis
🌳 Happy #WorldMangroveDay!
Global Mangrove Watch (globalmangrovewatch.org/) v4.1 dataset is now available - derived from a combination of Landsat, JERS-1, ALOS, ALOS-2 and Sentinel-2 data to provide annual maps of global mangrove extent over four decades - 1985-2025.
@Mangroves
🌳 Supersites for Satellite Land Product Validation - V2 now available!
@CEOS_WGCV LPV Supersites V2 now includes 90 well-characterised, stable reference sites which each support the validation of at least three land products.
Read more:
ceos.org/news/land-product-v…
Heading to #FOSS4G2026?
Don't miss the Cloud Native Geospatial for Earth Observation workshop - a hands-on session showing how to access and analyse petabyte-scale datasets in seconds.
🗓️ 31 August, 2026
⏱️ 10am - 1pm
📍 Hiroshima, Japan
🎟️ ti.to/osgeo-jp/foss4g-2026/w…@alexgleith
✅ 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:
ceos.org/news/interoperabili…
🛰️ 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.
📜 earthobservations.org/about-…#EarthIntelligenceforAll
📢 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: zoom.us/meeting/register/wyc…
🛰️ 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: zoom.us/meeting/register/wyc…
📣Speaker info: bit.ly/4fU84QH
Hosts: @CEOSdotORG WGCapD/@EOTECDevNet
☁️ 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