Recommended deliverable from the 2023 CEOS New Space White Paper: To ensure users can benefit from increased complementarity and interoperability of CEOS Agency and New Space datasets, the CEOS-ARD initiative should identify and implement mechanisms to deepen engagement with the New Space sector, consistent with CEOS Governing Documents. Examples include establishing a mechanism to consult the New Space sector during the development and review of CEOS-ARD Product Family Specifications (PFS), encouraging commercial sector participation in the ISO-AGC ARD Standards Working Group, and encouraging and assisting New Space entities to undertake self-assessments of their datasets against CEOS-ARD PFSs.
The CEOS-ARD Oversight Group and the LSI-VC are actively doing all of these things. We engage frequently with the commercial sector and organise commercial engagement workshops within LSI-VC meetings. The commercial sector is also heavily involved in the ongoing update of the Surface Temperature PFS – with commercial sector representatives making up about half of the participants on development meetings. Ongoing task. I think this can be closed once we publish the 2026 CEOS-ARD Strategy which will also include these aspects. Will be superseded in 2026 Q4 and can be closed at that time.