CEOS has made considerable progress in coordinating data acquisition to support important stakeholder initiatives, a number of which have a goal of becoming operational over the coming years. The challenges of routinely processing and analyzing full archives of data to produce operational products are very different to those of producing one-off example products. Traditional ?clip and ship? approaches are proving not to work. This presents a significant ?big data? challenge for both the user communities and the space agencies who wish to support them, but whose programs must also be sustainable. In response to this strategic challenge, WGISS will propose recommendations to SEO for exploring options for how international activities that target an operational state, such as GFOI and GEOGLAM, may be sustainably supported by CEOS and CEOS Agencies into the future. A number of pilot projects are underway that will provide important learnings. These recommendations will be a key input into broader discussions on governance, finance and management.
(Update from June 2015 SIT Chair TagUp) Not yet complete. Work is on-going mostly with the SEO;
December 2015: This action will be closed. WGISS and the SEO will continue to work and collaborate on the Data Cube activity. The SEO participates in all annual WGISS meetings and will look to WGISS for guidance on computing issues and data services.