The development of further CEOS ARD specifications in other user and discipline communities must also be driven by need ? starting with the communities served by CEOS WGs;VCs and AHTs. The goal will be to establish priorities for which products and applications might follow on from the current CARD4L PFS.
This is an ongoing task that is being carried out via the newly established CEOS-ARD Oversight Group. We have assembled representatives from the CEOS Virtual Constellations to explore the applicability of the CEOS-ARD Framework to domains and products other than land surface imaging.
The group has met 5 times since early 2022 and there have been good discussions around the specifics of ARD for Ocean Colour Radiometry (OCR-VC), Sea Surface Temperature (SST-VC), and Precipitation products (P-VC) in particular.
The Oversight Group is currently working to generalise the CEOS-ARD PFS Template so that it is applicable to all domains, after which new PFS for new products/domains will be considered.
The CEOS-ARD Oversight Group also convened a call on 'Hyperspectral CEOS-ARD'. The concept remains under investigation.
Suggest changing due date to 2024 Q4 – it is an ongoing long-term task