The GEOSS Water Strategy includes a number of recommendations that deal with satellites. In 2015, CEOS will assess the feasibility of CEOS Agencies to contribute to the development of the GEOSS Water Implementation Plan, and to define the potential CEOS contribution to the implementation of the GEOSS Water Strategy. The establishment of an ad-hoc Initial Study Team to progress this work was agreed at the 28th CEOS Plenary Meeting, with an initial report to be provided at SIT-30
The CEOS OpenSearch Team is developing the CEOS OpenSearch Best Practices Guideline Document. This document will also include CWIC OpenSearch Best Practices information and standards for interoperability to facilite doscoery and access of data. The Best Practice Document draft was issued October 2014, during the WGISS-38 meeting and is available at http://www.ceos.org/images/WGISS/OpenSearch/CEOSOpenSearchBestPracticeDocument-draft.pdf