[{"Number": "DIS-24-04", "Title": "Data provision to the GEO GSNL initiative", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2024, "Completion date": "2030-12-31", "Description": "A number of CEOS agencies contribute EO data to the GSNL Supersites. This deliverable consists in the DCT evaluation of the periodic image requests and in the provision of satellite data to the Supersite coordinating institutes and to the data hosting platforms."}, {"Number": "DIS-24-01", "Title": "G-VEWERS", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2024, "Completion date": "2030-12-31", "Description": "G-VEWERS project deliver annual reports on its developments towards the EO data use for Permanent Volcano Observatory."}, {"Number": "DIS-24-05", "Title": "GEO-GSNL contribution to the WGDisasters", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2024, "Completion date": "2030-12-31", "Description": "The GSNL Supersites deliver biennial reports on their developments towards Open Science and  on the EO data use for DRM. This deliverable consists of the biennial reports from the Supersites and of the assessments of the reports by the contributing Agencies."}, {"Number": "DIS-15-04", "Title": "Implementation of data coordination for the GEO GSNL initiative", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2015, "Completion date": "2030-12-31", "Description": "Status report on GSNL GEO Initiative with particular focus on the contribution of the CEOS data;data use and integration;contributions to research and geohazard assessemnts per original GSNL plan. Recommendation: Close this action in Q4 and create NEXT phase task"}, {"Number": "DIS-26-01", "Title": "New Seismic Risk Initiative", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2029-12-31", "Description": "Final Report of the New Seismic Risk Initiative\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-26-13", "Title": "ACR Timeline", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2029-12-31", "Description": "Consolidated Timeline for the implementation of the roadmap, including priorities, deadlines for completion and metrics of success\r\n "}, {"Number": "CARB-26-07", "Title": "CEOS contribution to GEO-TREES", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2028-12-31", "Description": "CEOS contributions to GEO-TREES and production of high-accuracy ground data\r\nfor satellite-derived biomass mapping. GEO-TREES implements the recommendations of the CEOS Aboveground Biomass Land Product Validation protocol.\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-26-14", "Title": "ACR Recommendations implementation", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2028-12-31", "Description": "Reporting, using the defined metrics of success, the Implementation of the Aquatic Carbon Roadmap short term recommendations\r\n "}, {"Number": "CMRS-26-06", "Title": "Gap Analysis for Earth Radiation Budget", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2028-12-31", "Description": "Using the CDR Inventory, and in consultation with GCOS, perform a gap analysis for the Earth Radiation Budget ECV. "}, {"Number": "CARB-26-19", "Title": "Evaluation and validation strategies for GHG fluxes", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2028-12-31", "Description": "In response to recommendation from 2025 GST Strategy:\r\nThe CEOS WGClimate should work with its partners on the AC-VC and AFOLU teams and within the scientific community to create global, gridded GHG concentration maps and top-down flux budgets, with uncertainties, at a spatial resolution of 1° x 1° or finer at monthly intervals.\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-23-11", "Title": "LSI-VC Response to the Observation Requirements of the CEOS AFOLU Roadmap", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2023, "Completion date": "2028-12-31", "Description": "The CEOS AFOLU Roadmap will define the 2035 observing system required to address the AFOLU information needs of society. LSI-VC and its subgroups will respond to the recommendations presented in the Roadmap."}, {"Number": "CARB-26-01", "Title": "Alignment of space-based biomass products with user needs in a consistent manner from CEOS agencies", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2028-12-31", "Description": "Work with GFOI, FAO and national governments/forest reporting agencies to align space agency biomass products to meet specific stakeholder needs, such as reports for the UNFCCC. The idea is not to create a single harmonised product (previpously deemed not feasible), but rather to support the combined use of these different datasets to meet specific needs of countries. GFOI supports collaboration with countries to harmonize biomass maps with inventories.\r\n\r\nSupersedes CARB-22-01.\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-23-06", "Title": "CEOS-ARD in the Cloud", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2023, "Completion date": "2028-12-31", "Description": "A core driver of CEOS-ARD is the provision of data that allows immediate analysis with a minimum of additional user effort. Cloud computing is central to achieving this ambition. This task encompasses the work that must be done across the CEOS-ARD Oversight Group, WGISS, and the VCs to ensure effective availability and use of CEOS-ARD in the cloud.\r\n\r\nTopics include: taking stock of CEOS-ARD availabiltiy in the cloud; exploring how CEOS-ARD can better support cloud platforms, data providers and users and be better represented in the cloud (e.g., branding, logo); and discussions around data formats and STAC / metadata catalogues, cross-cloud data access and use, authoritative data / provenance, etc.\r\n\r\nConnecting CEOS with OGC's Earth Observation Exploitation Platform DWG could be beneficial and should be explored."}, {"Number": "VC-26-19", "Title": "Dialogue with COAST-VC and Biodiversity Study Team", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2028-12-31", "Description": "Closely developed with support of GHRSST (Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature)."}, {"Number": "CMRS-26-05", "Title": "Gap Analysis for Sea Level", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2028-12-31", "Description": "Using the CDR Inventory, and in consultation with GCOS, perform a gap analysis for the Sea Level ECV. "}, {"Number": "VC-26-02", "Title": "COAST-VC Coastal Arctice Product(s)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2028-12-31", "Description": "COAST-VC to release at least one new coastal polar product for the Arctic pilot region\r\n "}, {"Number": "CARB-26-24", "Title": "Common Practices for Facility Scale Carbon Dioxide measurements", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2028-12-31", "Description": "Develop common practices for quantifying CO\u2082 emissions from plumes detected by remote sensing.\r\n\r\nIn response to recommendation from 2025 GST Strategy:\r\nCEOS should work with its partners (e.g., GCOS, WMO), the IPCC-TFI and members of the scientific community to define standards and best practices collecting, analysing, documenting and delivering high-spatial resolution, space-based observations of CO2 emissions over large fossil fuel fired power plants and industrial sources to track changes in emissions associated with user demand or emissions reduction policies and regulations.\r\n "}, {"Number": "CARB-26-23", "Title": "Multi-scale GHG integration methods", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2028-12-31", "Description": "Develop multi-scale integration methods that leverage both plume and area-mapper data.\r\n\r\nIn response to recommendation from 2025 GST Strategy:\r\nThe CEOS WGClimate should work with its partners on the AC-VC and AFOLU teams and within the scientific community to create global, gridded GHG concentration maps and top-down flux budgets, with uncertainties, at a spatial resolution of 1° x 1° or finer at monthly intervals.\r\n "}, {"Number": "CARB-26-22", "Title": "High resolution GHG inversions", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2028-12-31", "Description": "Identify candidate approaches for higher-resolution inversions\r\n\r\nIn response to recommendation from 2025 GST Strategy:\r\nThe CEOS WGClimate should work with its partners on the AC-VC and AFOLU teams and within the scientific community to create global, gridded GHG concentration maps and top-down flux budgets, with uncertainties, at a spatial resolution of 1° x 1° or finer at monthly intervals.\r\n "}, {"Number": "CARB-26-21", "Title": "Best Practices for Area Flux Methane measurements", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2028-06-30", "Description": "Following the publication of the Area Flux Common Practices, the team will develop Best Practices to increase the standard of measurements.\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-26-17", "Title": "Pilot Study for Vulnerable Coasts", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2028-03-31", "Description": "Technical assessments from specific regions (such as the North Indian Ocean coastline) demonstrating how improved wind accuracy directly enhances coastal flood inundation maps."}, {"Number": "VC-26-16", "Title": "Generation of Coast-Specific Wind Atlas", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2028-03-31", "Description": "A high-resolution (5km) dataset merging scatterometer winds from missions like EOS-06 and ASCAT with SAR-derived winds to support coastal engineering and erosion studies."}, {"Number": "CARB-26-05", "Title": "Exploratory groundwork for a CEOS-ARD specification for Lidar", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "A CEOS-ARD Product Family Specification for Lidar has been generally agreed as an idea worth exploring. This effort will initially focus on building the case and evidence for such a specification. The existence of a critical mass of contributors is also a key metric. Explore the utility of such a specification with end user facing organisations like GFOI and FAO. \r\n "}, {"Number": "CARB-20-05", "Title": "Support and encourage space data uptake in GFOI countries", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2020, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "Raising awareness, providing education, communicating coverage and availability, facilitating data access and discovery, alignment of CEOS-ARD with GFOI country needs and de facto GFOI systems such as FAO's SEPAL.\r\n\r\nTwo workshops contributed to this task in 2025:\r\nINPE / Belem (ESA):\r\nhttps://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass/Brazil_gears_up_to_harness_ESA_s_Biomass_data \r\n\r\nINPE / Sao Jose dos Campos (CCI Biomass with ESA support):\r\nhttps://climate.esa.int/en/projects/biomass/news-and-events/news/tropical-secondary-forest-in-focus-at-esa-workshop/ "}, {"Number": "VC-23-09", "Title": "CEOS-ARD Community Building", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2023, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "Promotion of CEOS-ARD and general community outreach. Ongoing activities include the CEOS-ARD Newsletter, Twitter, mailing lists, and ceos.org/ard website. Webinars and workshops will also be considered."}, {"Number": "CARB-26-17", "Title": "Monthly top-down flux budgets", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "\"Identify GHG datasets that meet the latency requirements for monthly top-down flux budgets.\r\n\r\nIn response to recommendation from 2025 GST Strategy:\r\nThe CEOS WGClimate should work with its partners on the AC-VC and AFOLU teams and within the scientific community to create global, gridded GHG concentration maps and top-down flux budgets, with uncertainties, at a spatial resolution of 1° x 1° or finer at monthly intervals.\"\r\n "}, {"Number": "CARB-19-03", "Title": "CEOS Contribution to the Early Warning Module for GFOI", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2019, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "Given the essential role of satellite data in early warning of deforestation, CEOS will follow closely and contribute to the GFOI Early Warning Module, ensuring necessary representation for space data providers. LSI-VC will consider linkages to the new LSI-VC Wildfire subgroup.\r\n\r\nModule launched: https://www.fao.org/gfoi/news-and-events/news/news-detail/GFOI-launches-comprehensive-new-guidance-module-to-combat-global-deforestation/en   Activity remains open. Added new wildfire subgroup connection. Should leverage Canadian activity here.\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-25-03", "Title": "Greenhouse Gas Flux CEOS-ARD Product Family Specification", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": null}, {"Number": "VC-23-13", "Title": "CEOS-ARD Assessment Peer Reviews", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2023, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "Manage the processes for assessment of products against the CEOS-ARD Product Family Specifications."}, {"Number": "VC-26-18", "Title": "Refinement of Oceansat-3 wind products", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "Refining Oceansat-3 wind products based on the operational requirements of coastal management agencies, GEO BluePlanet and AquaWatch."}, {"Number": "CARB-26-18", "Title": "Evaluation and validation strategies for GHG concentrations", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "\"In response to recommendation from 2025 GST Strategy:\r\nThe CEOS WGClimate should work with its partners on the AC-VC and AFOLU teams and within the scientific community to create global, gridded GHG concentration maps and top-down flux budgets, with uncertainties, at a spatial resolution of 1° x 1° or finer at monthly intervals.\"\r\n "}, {"Number": "CARB-26-20", "Title": "Tip-and-cue system for methane observations", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "Outline and define a tip-and-cue system using using observations from global mappers to identify methane (CH\u2084) anomalies.\r\n\r\nIn response to recommendation from 2025 GST Strategy:\r\nCEOS should work with its partners in UNEP IMEO to coordinate observations from CH4 global mappers with those collected by high-resolution plume monitors to support alerts and to monitor emissions from the largest methane point sources.\r\n "}, {"Number": "CV-26-04", "Title": "Develop an updated product validation protocol on Leaf Area Index (LAI)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "The biogeophysical focus group has proposed to revisit the LAI protocol released in 2014 to meet updated GCOS requirements and also include fAPAR and FCover variables. Originally designed around the 500 m MODIS resolution, the LAI protocol should now be adapted to higher-resolution data (e.g. from Sentinel and Landsat) with a renewed focus on advancing technologies (mainly UAV) and uncertainty characterisation. A draft update to the protocol is underway with the initial step being a scientific review paper for submission to RSE in Q2 2026.\r\n "}, {"Number": "DATA-26-06", "Title": "Interoperability Demonstrator on Supersites", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": null}, {"Number": "CARB-26-02", "Title": "Biomass satellite capabilities guide and promotion of space-based forest biomass measurements for GFOI countries", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "The new generation of Above Ground Biomass measurement missions offers great promise to forest monitoring capabilities. The LSI-VC Forests and Biomass Subgroup and WGCV Land Product Validation subgroup will work with GFOI Capacity Building partners, including the World Bank and FAO, to accelerate the policy relevance and application of these missions through strong communications, education, and interchange between GFOI countries and space data providers.\r\n\r\nIn response to strong demand from stakeholders, the LSI-VC Forests and Biomass subgroup will develop guidance regarding the differences, advantages, and disadvantages of biomass maps from missions like GEDI, NISAR, and BIOMASS. The aim is to create a single slide deck (10–20 slides) explaining these missions and their products. This will be an important outreach resource. Other such educational materials will be developed to help inform countries as to the opportunities ahead.\r\n\r\nThe CEOS representatives to GFOI will continue to advocate new space agency biomass products and promote the CEOS Biomass Protocol. Measures to address the policy relevance of the data from the relevant missions will be identified, making best use of the user and policy interface provided by GFOI. Additional direct linkages to UNFCCC and IPCC will continue to be explored.\r\n\r\nThe motivation for this activitiy is to encourage increased use of these data sources in submissions to the 2028 Global Stocktake.\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-23-05", "Title": "CEOS-ARD Impact Case Studies", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2023, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "Curation of CEOS-ARD impact case studies for ceos.org/ard/impact The aim is to better understand CEOS-ARD supply, user access, and user experiences. It will be both an inventory of application examples and, through its compilation, a means of gathering feedback from users. Feedback will be gathered on the CEOS-ARD specifications and products, as well as cloud data/analysis platforms."}, {"Number": "VC-24-03", "Title": "CEOS-ARD STAC Extension (Optical)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2024, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "Finalise an updated CEOS-ARD STAC extension for the optical PFS."}, {"Number": "VC-26-05", "Title": "Unlocking Commercial EO Archives for Public Good", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "Development of a CEOS mechanism to highlight opportunities to unlock historical commercial EO archives for the public good.\r\n "}, {"Number": "CV-26-08", "Title": "Conduct a Global Reference Grid Intercomparison Exercise (GRGIX)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "Conduct an intercomparison exercise to assess global reference grids and improve the standards and interoperability for grids. Tasks include: Clarify 'grid' concepts and terminology, develop a comprehensive taxonomy of global grids, develop specifications and metrics for grid categorisation, establish a database of major global grid systems and apply the proposed taxonomy, Identify use cases, perform systematic intercomparison and benchmarking.\r\n "}, {"Number": "DATA-26-03", "Title": "EO Data Provenance Guidelines", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "The information that documents the history of the data content. It describes the origin or source of the data content, any changes that may have taken place since it was originated, the data inputs, what algorithm versions were used, who has had custody of it since it was originated etc."}, {"Number": "CARB-26-06", "Title": "GST2 prototype products and guidance", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-12-31", "Description": "Develop CEOS data products and associated user guidance material in support of national and global level users for the second Global Stocktake (GST2).\r\n\r\nContribute to RECCAP-2 bottom-up and top-down reconciliation efforts anticipated for GST2.\r\n "}, {"Number": "DATA-26-05", "Title": "Summaries of Digital Twins", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-09-30", "Description": "This document figure out the difference between \"general Digital Twins\" and \"Digital Twins in EO\".\r\nThrough the discussion and survey, use cases and roles of DTs will be collected."}, {"Number": "CARB-26-15", "Title": "Space-based data requirements for G3W", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-06-30", "Description": "Work with WMO to define the space-based data requirements for Global Greenhouse Gas Watch (G3W)\r\n "}, {"Number": "CMRS-26-04", "Title": "Guidance for EO data for resilience and adaptation efforts", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-06-30", "Description": "Engage with GEO to create guidance that supports the integration of Earth observation data and information into resilience and adaptation efforts across selected thematic areas.\r\n\r\nIn response to GST Strategy recommendation:\r\nCEOS should explore ways to support the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process. For example, CEOS could collaborate with GEO to develop guidance and resources that help countries, particularly LDCs, integrate EO data and information effectively into their National Adaptation Plans, from initial risk assessment and planning to monitoring and evaluation. This ensures that EO capabilities align with UNFCCC reporting needs and national/local contexts.  \r\nCEOS should continue to foster its relationship with GEO to identify emerging opportunities where their close collaboration will maximize the benefits of space-based data to support the GGA and the development of NAPs.\r\n "}, {"Number": "CARB-26-14", "Title": "Common Practices for Area Flux Methane measurements", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-06-30", "Description": "Following the publication of the Facility Scale Common Practices in 2025, the team will develop Common Practices for Area Fluxes\r\n "}, {"Number": "CMRS-26-07", "Title": "Fundamental (Climate) Data Record Inventory", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-06-30", "Description": "Building on the CDR Inventory, establish a database for Fundamental Climate Data Records (FCDR Inventory). This will be linked to the CDR Inventory. "}, {"Number": "VC-26-01", "Title": "COAST-VC led coastal Gap Analysis", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-06-30", "Description": "COAST-VC (in conjunction with other CEOS entities) shall lead subject matter experts in a gaps and limitations analysis of existing mission data for the coastal ocean (e.g. within 100km of the shoreline) and prepare for the SIT chair a summary report with detailed appendices.  \r\n "}, {"Number": "CARB-26-16", "Title": "National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Compiler regional workshop - Asia", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-06-30", "Description": "Organise a workshop in the Asia-Pacific region with national greenhouse gas inventory compilers, to discuss opportunities and barriers for the use of satellite data in national reporting\r\n "}, {"Number": "DATA-26-04", "Title": "White Paper on Federated Authentication and Authorisation Access", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2027-03-31", "Description": "The White Paper on Federation is expected to present background information related to federated authentication and authorisation. Later, through the description of a selected list of use cases, will attempt to provide basic conclusion useful to CEOS members willing to implement federation"}, {"Number": "VC-25-26", "Title": "Gauge adjusted accumulated blended SEVIRI IR / LEO MW precipitation", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2027-03-31", "Description": "Gauge adjusted accumulated precipitation at ground by blended MTG FCI IR / LEO MW precipitation  H44 P-AC-FCI-L\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-24-08", "Title": "Coordination with Agency PoCs, incl. tasking of new polarimetric observations and requests for archived data", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2024, "Completion date": "2027-03-30", "Description": "Coordination with relevant CEOS (SAR) Agencies for systematic polarimetric observations over PolSAR reference sites\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-26-06", "Title": "Updated Surface Temperature CEOS-ARD Product Family Specification (PFS)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Development of Version 6.0 of the CEOS-ARD Surface Temperature PFS, inclduing updated and new requirements for Land Surface Temperature (LST), Surface Brightness Temperature (SBT), and Water Surface Temperature (WST), while aligning with general metadata updates and conventions from more recently updated PFS (e.g., Aquatic Reflectance PFS v2.0), and align on issues identified across all optical PFS.\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-25-01", "Title": "Modularisation of the CEOS-ARD PFS Requirements", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": null}, {"Number": "VC-26-15", "Title": "Report of the Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting, 22-26 June 2026, Wiesbaden, Germany", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": null}, {"Number": "CARB-26-10", "Title": "Best Practices for Facility Scale Methane measurements", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Following the publication of the Common Practices in 2025, the team will develop Best Practices to increase the standard of measurements\r\n "}, {"Number": "CB-26-02", "Title": "New Space training through the AESPP Africa-Europe Space Partnership Programme", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "The activity is related to 'New Space' where there is 1 training and 1 workshop foreseen per year aimed at training African experts on New Space related topics. Building on a Space Systems Engineering training successfully organized last year at the ESA Academy, the plan is to organize during 2026 a training on Earth Observation Satellite Engineering, in a two-week blended format (one week in person and one week online). "}, {"Number": "VC-20-26", "Title": "System Vicarious Calibration (SVC) infrastructures in support of Climate-quality OCR data records", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2020, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Development and maintenance of SVC infrastructures, coordinated across the Agencies.\r\n\r\n\r\n\tNASA: https://pace.oceansciences.org/docs/PACE-SCI-PLAN-0140-VC_20190226.pdf\r\n\tNOAA: https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cw/field-observations/MOBY.1.html\r\n\tJRC: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC105497\r\n\tESA: https://frm4soc.org/index.php/activities/workshop-on-vicarious-infrastructure/\r\n\tEUMETSAT/EC Copernicus: https://www.eumetsat.int/OC-SVC\r\n"}, {"Number": "VC-26-03", "Title": "CEOS-ARD Strategy 2026", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "This new five-year strategy will respond to the findings of the 2025 campaign that worked with the broader community to understand the future direction of CEOS-ARD.\r\n "}, {"Number": "CB-25-11", "Title": "Hyperspectral Remote Sensing", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "ESA, DLR, ASI, NASA (JPL) training on hyperspectral, in conjunction with the 2024 workshop on hyperspectral.  Agreement in- principle on running a joint course on\r\nhyperspectral before/after the Oct. 2024 workshop on hyperspectral expected to be held in ESRIN."}, {"Number": "CV-26-06", "Title": "Develop a product validation protocol on evapotranspiration", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "As input to the ET protocol, hold a workshop between WGCV LPV, LSI-VC GEOGLAM, and UN FAO on evapotranspiration validation, review existing ET products and Cal/Val practices, identify data and knowledge gaps, and gather community input\r\n "}, {"Number": "DATA-26-02", "Title": "Interoperability Maturity Matrix", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "The Maturity Matrix will help users to measure the maturity of Interoperability of data and services in their organizations"}, {"Number": "CARB-26-25", "Title": "GHG Cal/Val Supersites", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Completed December 2025 - new CDR Inventory live here: https://www.cdrinventory.climatemonitoring.info/"}, {"Number": "CARB-26-03", "Title": "CEOS AFOLU Portal", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "The LSI-VC Forests and Biomass subgroup will create a CEOS AFOLU Portal – an informational website that will serve as a means to catalogue CEOS agency contributions to the AFOLU Roadmap. Similar to the CEOS GST Portal, the AFOLU website will document relevant datasets, activities, and tools of CEOS agencies. The aim is to create, over time, a comprehensive picture of CEOS agency contributions to AFOLU.\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-25-04", "Title": "CEOS Response to GEOGLAM EAVs", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": null}, {"Number": "VC-25-27", "Title": "CEOS-ARD Framework update for EAVs and other higher-level products", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": null}, {"Number": "VC-25-05", "Title": "PM2.5 Roadmap", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": null}, {"Number": "CV-26-07", "Title": "Create a SITSat webpage on the Cal/Val Portal", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Develop a webpage hosted on the Cal/Val Portal and promoted on the CEOS Website to introduce the concept of SITSats, their expected impact, future vision, and related datasets. \r\n "}, {"Number": "CV-23-04", "Title": "Conduct a GCP Intercomparison Exercise", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2023, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Develop tools for quantifying colocation between different agencies GCP references (to be discussed and endorsed at next TMSG plenary)"}, {"Number": "CARB-26-04", "Title": "Refinement of the CEOS AFOLU Roadmap actions", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "The LSI-VC Forests and Biomass subgroup will refine and simplify the Roadmap actions and provide a clearer prioritisation and timeline for implementation.\r\n "}, {"Number": "CMRS-26-02", "Title": "Regional satellite data experts for national inventory compilers", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "In collaboration with UNFCCC and IPCC TFI, explore the possibilities to establish regional satellite data experts to advise national inventory compilers on the utilities of satellite data."}, {"Number": "CB-24-03", "Title": "Engage & empower South African youth to use EO for Economic Empowerment", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2024, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Building on the inaugural GEO Ministerial Summit Youth Declaration and working with CSIR as both manager of National Earth Observation and Space Secretariat (NEOSS) and Associate Member of CEOS"}, {"Number": "VC-24-01", "Title": "CEOS-ARD Strategy 2024 Implementation", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2024, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Implementation of tasks in response to the CEOS-ARD Strategy 2024."}, {"Number": "VC-14-09", "Title": "Implementation of the International Network for Sensor InTercomparison and Uncertainty Assessment for Ocean Colour Radiometry (INSITU-OCR)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2014, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Implementation of the International Network for Sensor InTercomparison and Uncertainty Assessment for Ocean Colour Radiometry (INSITUOCR);including recommendations of the INSITUOCR White Paper (www.ioccg.org/groups/INSITUOCR_White-Paper.pdf) and establishment of the INSITU-OCR Secretariat (EUMETSAT;NASA and NOAA). Implementation is following a modular approach."}, {"Number": "VC-26-04", "Title": "CEOS-ARD Building Blocks in Github", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Convert the existing CEOS-ARD PFS to 'building blocks' that can be reused. Create tooling for editing PFS and assessments. Establish an open forum for developing PFS on GitHub.\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-22-04", "Title": "Mission continuity timelines for land domain CEOS-ARD PFS", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2022, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "LSI-VC will work with the CEOS MIM Database team to explore the production of mission continuity timelines specifically for missions that produce land domain CEOS-ARD. "}, {"Number": "CARB-26-12", "Title": "Data supply for IMEO", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Ensure IMEO have sufficient data to meet their needs, including hyperspectral, geostationary and atmospheric chemistry sensors.\r\n "}, {"Number": "CARB-26-13", "Title": "Adoption of methane common practices by IMEO MARS", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Engage with IMEO to support the adoption of methane (CH\u2084) common practices within the MARS program.\r\n\r\nIn response to recommendation from 2025 GST Strategy:\r\nCEOS should work with its partners in UNEP IMEO to coordinate observations from CH4 global mappers with those collected by high-resolution plume monitors to support alerts and to monitor emissions from the largest methane point sources.\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-26-07", "Title": "CEOS-ARD Framework Update", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Update to the CEOS-ARD Framework to include a new product level classification / taxonomy, a semantic versioning convention, and more information on the coordination and oversight of CEOS-ARD.\r\n "}, {"Number": "CMRS-24-04", "Title": "Conduct consultation to converge on definition for Climate Data Records (CDRs) and its variants", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2024, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Discuss and converge on definition for the term 'Climate Data Record' and publish the agreed definition in the CEOS EO Glossary"}, {"Number": "CMRS-26-03", "Title": "Mapping EO products to Adaptation Indicators", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Develop a mapping between EO products (ECVs and other datasets) and relevant adaptation indicators.\r\n\r\nIn response to GST Strategy recommendation:\r\nCEOS should map ECVs and other amenable EO products to GGA indicators, documenting potential EO products and services and their links to the indicators being developed and adopted for tracking progress under the Global Goal on Adaptation. This should also promote the use of ARD principles to enhance usability for national reporting systems\r\n "}, {"Number": "CV-23-03", "Title": "TIRCalNet: Establishment of initial TIRCalNet processes and network initiation", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2023, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Development of a network for Top Of Atmosphere Brightness Temperature Measurements at Fiducial Reference Measurements standard. A working group will be constituted with initial sites selections and roadmap toward the establishment of the network."}, {"Number": "VC-20-27", "Title": "Development of protocols for bio-optical in situ measurements", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2020, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Volume 1.0 - Inherent Optical Property Measurements and Protocols: Absorption Coefficient (Nov 2018) Volume 2.0 - Beam Transmission and Attenuation Coefficients: Instruments;Characterization;Field Measurements and Data Analysis Protocols (Apr 2019) Volume 3.0 - Protocols for Satellite Ocean Color Data Validation: In situ Optical Radiometry (Dec 2019) Volume 4.0 - Inherent Optical Property Measurements and Protocols: Best Practices for the Collection and Processing of Ship-Based Underway Flow-Through Optical Data (Nov 2019) Volume 5.0: Measurement Protocol of Absorption by Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) and Other Dissolved Materials (to be published in 2020) Volume 6.0: Particulate Organic Carbon Sampling and Measurement Protocols: Consensus Towards Future Ocean Color Missions (to be published in 2020) Noteworthy and Supplemental Topics on Ocean Colour Radiometry Protocols (DRAFT)"}, {"Number": "AGRI-26-01", "Title": "Conduct a stocktake and gap analysis of Essential Agricultural Variables (EAVs)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Conduct a stocktake of past, current, and planned products and related satellite missions, cross-checked against existing essential variables. The stocktake will serve as critical input to a gap analysis effort. CEOS Agency input to the EAV stocktake based on their foci is encouraged.\r\n "}, {"Number": "DATA-26-01", "Title": "EO Data Citation Guidelines", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "These guidelines will provide information on EO data citation approaches and procedures"}, {"Number": "CARB-26-09", "Title": "Promotion and Development of the GHG Calibration Portal", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Following the regular campaigns, the website will be updated with the latest data, and shared to relevant stakeholders in the community. \r\n "}, {"Number": "DIS-24-02", "Title": "Pre-operational RO", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2024, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Transition to permanent Recovery Observatory"}, {"Number": "CB-25-20", "Title": "SAR-Based Applications for Forestry, ONLINE", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "An online course about BIOMASS, NISAR and in general SAR-based applications to Forestry (including also draughts and forest-fire risks in the Amazon region for Brazilian / Argentinean students. Include some AI-based studies for EO in relation to forest-fire risks – many examples from the Phi-Lab and/or at JPL & Tor Vergata."}, {"Number": "CV-17-01", "Title": "L1 top-of-atmosphere  interoperability", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2017, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Develop an initial recommendation of a community reference in collaboration with GSICS."}, {"Number": "CB-25-12", "Title": "COBRA \u2013 Polarimetry", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "COBRA training with ISRO on polarimetry in India."}, {"Number": "DIS-20-02", "Title": "GNSL evolution feasibility study", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2020, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Feasibility study to assess the possibility to increase impact of the GEO-GSNL initiative through the involvement of risk-oriented communities and DRM stakeholders (public and private). It will contain an initial review of the first 10 years of the initiative;obtained through literature review and interviews;and an analysis of the addedd benefits;and pros/cons;of the new approach;obtained mainly through discussions in workshops and conferences. Includes a cost/benefits analysis of the GEO GSNL Initative;including but not limited to its Open Science approach;measurable improvements to practical research results;tangible support to improved geohazard assessment;and impact to research;application development for decision making and potential for disaster risk reduction and resilience actions. E5"}, {"Number": "DIS-22-01", "Title": "Flood Pilot with GEO-LEO-SAR \u201cUnderstanding Flood Risk from Space\u201d", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2022, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "CEOS WGD Flood Pilot activity merging LEO/GEO/SAR observations.  Final Report: \"Understanding Flood Risk from Space”."}, {"Number": "CARB-26-11", "Title": "IMEO Use Cases", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Develop a series of use cases to support IMEO work\r\n "}, {"Number": "AGRI-26-02", "Title": "Develop a GEOGLAM Prioritisation Plan", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "Conduct a stocktake of past, current, and planned products and related satellite missions, cross-checked against existing essential variables. The stocktake will serve as critical input to a gap analysis effort. CEOS Agency input to the EAV stocktake based on their foci is encouraged.\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-25-12", "Title": "GOSAT-GW AMSR3 Snowfall Rate", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": "NOAA developes an operational Snowfall Rate product for GOESAT-GW AMSR3\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-25-07", "Title": "Deliver or improve OceanSat 3/1-derived coastal Blue Carbon products in at least 3 COAST-VC pilot regions (e.g. Bay of Bengal, W African Coast and Chesapeake Bay)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-12-31", "Description": null}, {"Number": "CB-25-06", "Title": "Arctic Methane and Permafrost Challenge (AMPAC)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-11-30", "Description": "To be held in Svalbard. It is a follow-up to the AMPAC summer school held in 2022.\r\nThe course will be on the Arctic, methane, snow cover permafrost.\r\n\r\nLink: Arctic Methane and Permafrost Challenge (AMPAC) - eo science for society (esa.int)"}, {"Number": "CB-25-10", "Title": "ESA Training on EO for Forestry", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-11-30", "Description": "The main purpose of this course was to present and to teach students/early career researchers how to handle various tools to processed EO data, which are relevant to forestry applications. It covered various topics including forest mapping, deforestation monitoring, and biomass estimations using EO technologies such as optical or SAR. The event was held in the Federal University of Pará (Belém, Brazil) ESA Training on EO for Forestry - eo science for society"}, {"Number": "CB-25-08", "Title": "PUMAS", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-11-30", "Description": "PUMAS training with CONAE in Argentina centred around the joint utility of Sentinel-1 and SAOCOM-1. The training programme is still in development, but will focus on developing an understanding of:\r\n- InSAR\r\n- PolSAR\r\n- PolInSAR"}, {"Number": "CB-25-19", "Title": "COBRA - InSAR", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-09-30", "Description": "COBRA training with ISRO on interferometry in India, possibly CEOS action."}, {"Number": "VC-25-14", "Title": "GPCP v4.0 release", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-09-30", "Description": "Release of new version of the Global Precipitation Climatology Project product: with finer spatial resolution, more consistent output and lower latency.\r\n "}, {"Number": "CB-25-18", "Title": "12 th Trans- Atlantic Training (TAT-12)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-09-30", "Description": null}, {"Number": "VC-25-16", "Title": "NASA Precipitation Processing System (PPS) V08 product release (L3 - IMERG)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-09-30", "Description": "Release of latest version of L3 IMERG precipitation products incorporating new (V08) GPROF retrievals.\r\n "}, {"Number": "CV-26-01", "Title": "Provide data quality inputs to the 2026 CEOS-ARD Strategy", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-09-30", "Description": "Provide inputs to the 2026 CEOS-ARD Strategy, including data/measurand and metadata quality, bounds on quality for pre-processing steps, uncertainty quantification and SI-traceability, ongoing quality assurance and integrity monitoring, and leveraging Cal/Val networks, CEOS-PVP, CEOS-FRM, CEOS MIM, and the Quality Factor of the CEOS Interoperability Handbook  \r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-26-12", "Title": "Peer-reviewed short paper on the Aquatic Carbon Roadmap", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-09-30", "Description": "Peer-reviewed short paper on the Aquatic Carbon Roadmap summarizing the Roadmap actionable recommendations and pathways\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-25-21", "Title": "Release of AMSR3 data", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-09-30", "Description": "Release of AMSR3 data \r\n "}, {"Number": "CV-24-03", "Title": "Good Practices Protocol on Vegetation Indices", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2024, "Completion date": "2026-09-30", "Description": "A community developed document detailing review of practices for vegetation index validation and intercomparison."}, {"Number": "CV-26-05", "Title": "Develop a product validation protocol on Fire Burnt Area", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-09-30", "Description": "The Fire focus area recognises the lack of community protocols for BA, AF and FRP and focuses on high resolution, traceable data. Fire products, in particular FRP, are challenging to validate owing to the ephemerality of the phenomenon and the challenges in spatiotemporal mismatch, and there is a scarcity of field campaign data. A draft protocol for Burnt Area is being developed, with a first version planned in 2026.\r\n "}, {"Number": "CB-25-05", "Title": "EU Polar Science week school Lab", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-09-30", "Description": "To be held in Copenhagen for schools in cooperation with ESERO Denmark in conjunction with the ESA Polar Science Week.\r\n\r\nLink: 2024 EU Polar Science Week (polar-science-week.eu)"}, {"Number": "CB-25-17", "Title": "PECS-BiDS Training Course", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-09-30", "Description": "EO training course to be held in Latvia in spring 2025. It will be a precursory course to the BiDS conference which will be held the following week. It will involve teaching the participants, who will be primarily lecturers and government officials, the fundamentals of EO and big data. Focusing on AI workflows, open data principles, High Performance Computing etc."}, {"Number": "CB-25-09", "Title": "SELPER", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-09-30", "Description": "A training course on EO for natural disasters. The event was hosted by SELPER Mexico. ESA contributed by creating an online lecture that focused on\r\nshowcasing how Sentinel-1 data can be used for monitoring flood inundation in Brazil."}, {"Number": "CARB-26-08", "Title": "Stimulate uptake of the controlled release database", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-09-30", "Description": "Following establishment of the database of controlled release experiments, engage with operators and users to increase uptake of the resource\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-26-09", "Title": "CEOS-ARD Discoverability and Accessibility Metadata Guidance", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-09-30", "Description": "Develop guidance for adding collection-level metadata to show CEOS-ARD compliance and aid discoverability and accessibility via WGISS Connected Data Assets (CDA).\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-26-08", "Title": "Multi-source SAR Backscatter PFS", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "An update of the SAR CEOS-ARD PFS to accommodate products that are comprised of data from multiple sources.\r\n "}, {"Number": "AGRI-26-03", "Title": "Hold a Workshop on Evapotranspiration Validation", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "Joint with the CEOS WGCV Land Product Validation (LPV) Subgroup and UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), hold a workshop dedicated to scoping good practices on evapotranspiration Validation.\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-26-11", "Title": "Coastal Blue Carbon User Consultation Meeting", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "Organise an User Consultation Meeting on Coastal Blue Carbon bringing together remote sensing specialists, as well as in-situ and modeling blue carbon experts to discuss state-of-the-art and future needs for integrating satellite data with field measurements for scalable habitat monitoring, carbon assessment, and restoration support across coastal sites at large-scale\r\n "}, {"Number": "CV-23-06", "Title": "Retrieval and validation of sea surface atmospheric pressure with microwave remote sensing", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2023, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "Retrieval of sea surface atmospheric pressure with microwave measurements have the advantage for all weather capabilities, which is essential for the application of forecast and analysis of typhoon/hurricane. This task will develop the retrievals and assessment for this sea surface atmospheric pressure with microwave remote sensing."}, {"Number": "VC-25-08", "Title": "Deliver or improve satellite derived biogeochemical products (e.g. primary productivity, phytoplankton size class) within 1km of the land-sea interface (GCOS 2022 Implementation Plan) in one, or more, COAST-VC pilot region(s)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": null}, {"Number": "CMRS-24-01", "Title": "Update and align WGClimate website instances (CEOS, CGMS, climatemonitoring.info)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2024, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "This is a general clean-up and update of inconsistent, obsolete and unaligned information across websites."}, {"Number": "CV-23-01", "Title": "Develop an FRM Assessment Framework", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2023, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "Fiducial Reference Measurement Self Assessment process piloted in a series of exercises with FRM networks. A maturity assessment tool is being developed prior to the operationalisation of the framework."}, {"Number": "CMRS-25-01", "Title": "Expanding the utility of the CDR Inventory", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "Develop a new typology interface for the Climate Data Record (CDR) Inventory to enhance discoverability.\r\n\r\nSupporting GST Strategy recommendation:\r\nCEOS should enhance discoverability of adaptation-relevant Climate Data Records (CDRs). This involves improving access to information about existing data records, focusing on thematic indicators relevant to climate impacts and resilience. It also includes an adaptation-focused analysis of gaps in the ECV inventory. These efforts should promote the use of ARD principles to enhance utility of EO products for national reporting systems\u200b.\r\n "}, {"Number": "CMRS-25-03", "Title": "Support for GCOS ECV rationalisation process", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "Work with GCOS to make the GCOS ECV rationalisation process useful for satellite data records and ensure compatibility with the CDR Inventory. WGClimate will organise a joint meeting with GCOS Panels in Q1 2026, to prepare the GCOS status report and next GCOS implementation plan inclusive of promoting new ways of deriving application related needs/requirements. This absorbs actions #2018-07, #2024-01, #2024-02, and #2024-04 from the 2024 Coordinated Action Plan."}, {"Number": "CV-25-02", "Title": "Develop a white paper for the Quality and consistency of land surface reflectance in the solar reflective region", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "Under WGCV's Surface Reflectance Quality and Consistency project, a white paper entitled \"Quality and consistency of land surface reflectance in the solar reflective region\" will be developed as a reference for organisations considering reprocessing Earth observation date from passive optical sensors to create interoperable surface reflectance measurements."}, {"Number": "CB-26-01", "Title": "UN/UNU-INWEH/CEOS Training on Resilience and Humanitarian Aid", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "The Earth Observation (EO) for Resilience and Humanitarian Aid Training Programme is an intensive five-day hybrid course designed to strengthen the ability of UN personnel to use geospatial and satellite-derived information in operational, programmatic, and emergency-response settings. Taking place at the United Nations Office in Vienna from 23-27 March 2026, the programme is jointly delivered by UNOOSA, UNU and CEOS space agencies (ASI, CNES, DLR, ESA), bringing together technical expertise from across the international EO community.\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-25-15", "Title": "NASA Precipitation Processing System (PPS) V08 product release (L1 and L2)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "Release of latest versions of L1C (brightness temperature) data and L2A precipitation products: implementation of GPROF neural network retrievals"}, {"Number": "VC-25-23", "Title": "Release of new version of GSMaP precipitation products", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "Release of new version of GSMaP precipitation products"}, {"Number": "CV-23-05", "Title": "Retrieval and validation of high winds with combined active-passive microwave measurements", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2023, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "The combination of measurements by radar scatterometers and microwave radiometers capable of improving the measurement and retrieval of high winds. It is good time to explore the combined information. This task will provide a comparison of respective wind results from both type of sensors and examples of joint application methods for high wind retrievals."}, {"Number": "CMRS-26-01", "Title": "Update the Space Agency Response to the 2022 GCOS Implementation Plan", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "Update the Space Agency Response to the 2022 GCOS Implementation Plan to provide the most up-to-date input for the next GCOS Status Report that will be published in 2027. \r\n "}, {"Number": "CV-25-01", "Title": "Conduct a second FRM Assessment Framework exercise", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "Conduct a second FRM Assessment Framework exercise, including PGN, FRM4DOAS, and RadCalNet as a minimum."}, {"Number": "CB-25-15", "Title": "Living Planet Symposium School lab", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "The current proposal for LPS related school training:\r\n\r\n1. Organisation of a School Lab for German-speaking schools invited from the region over 4 consecutive days out of 5 days of the LPS, focused on Remote Sensing experiments & teaching with the support of the ESERO project (Austria/Germany).\r\n\r\n2. Organisation of one day workshop (in English) on Climate Detectives for school kids from across Europe.\r\n\r\n3. Possibly, for the first time in the LPS history, we could also organise a parallel EO Training event (LPS EO Academy), at University/PhD level, for the 5 days of the event, for about 35 students, following the same 5 main themes of the LPS, grouped in days, NOT phased with the LPS thematic days, such that selected presenters of LPS for each theme are also tasked for teaching at the LPS EO Academy."}, {"Number": "VC-25-17", "Title": "Analysis Ready Data for Precipitation: product family specifications", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "Specification of requirements for the Precipitation ARD (Level 2 and 3 precipitation products)\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-26-10", "Title": "Aquatic Carbon Roadmap", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "Develop an Aquatic Carbon Roadmap, as the third component of the CEOS Carbon Strategy (following the GHG and AFOLU roadmaps)\r\n "}, {"Number": "CV-26-02", "Title": "Develop a Guide to Pre-flight Calibration and Characterisation of Optical Satellite Sensors", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-06-30", "Description": "Develop guidelines for the Pre-flight Calibration and Characterisation of Optical Satellite Sensors, following from the discussions and outcomes of the pre-flight calibration workshop held in November 2024. An initial note will be published summarising the workshop outcomes ahead of release of the complete guidelines document.\r\n "}, {"Number": "SDG-25-01", "Title": "EO Support Sheet for SDG Indicator 11.3.1 (Urbanization) Annual Update", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-05-01", "Description": null}, {"Number": "VC-25-22", "Title": "GPM Dual frequency Precipitation Data reprocessing", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-03-31", "Description": "GPM Dual frequency Precipitation Data reprocessing\r\n "}, {"Number": "CB-22-12", "Title": "EOTEC DevNet Multi-Stakeholder Network Analysis", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2022, "Completion date": "2026-03-31", "Description": "Complete and deliver final report on multi-stakeholder network analysis that scopes the landscape of capacity development providers across the globe.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n2026 Update: The Network Analysis was also completed and an interactive dashboard created."}, {"Number": "VC-23-01", "Title": "Aquatic Carbon roadmap", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2023, "Completion date": "2026-03-31", "Description": "Aquatic contribution to the CEOS Carbon Roadmap"}, {"Number": "CV-26-03", "Title": "Provide a list of Land Product Validation Supersites", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2026, "Completion date": "2026-03-31", "Description": "A review of supersite criteria and list of sites is underway to expand the list of variables, adding ET, GPP/NPP, SIF, include recent sites and networks (e.g., HYPERNETS, GBOV), assess spatial representativeness, and align with CEOS-FRM principles. Over 220 candidate sites have been identified to date\r\n "}, {"Number": "VC-25-06", "Title": "Expanding the Geostationary Atmospheric Composition Constellation: Toward Global Coverage", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2026-03-31", "Description": null}, {"Number": "VC-25-11", "Title": "CMORPH2 reprocessing", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2025-12-31", "Description": "Reprocessing of NOAA CMORPH2 global blended precipitation product for the period 1998 to 2025"}, {"Number": "SDG-25-03", "Title": "EO Support Sheet for SDG Indicator 15.3.1 (Land Degradation) Annual Update", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2025-12-30", "Description": null}, {"Number": "VC-25-20", "Title": "Launch of GOSAT-GW with AMSR3", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2025-09-30", "Description": "Launch of GOSAT-GW with AMSR3\r\n "}, {"Number": "SDG-24-01", "Title": "EO Support Sheet for SDG Indicator 6.6.1 (Water) 2024 Review", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2024, "Completion date": "2025-08-31", "Description": null}, {"Number": "SDG-25-04", "Title": "UNSC IAEG-SDGs / UN-GGIM WGGI Engagement", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2025-08-30", "Description": null}, {"Number": "VC-24-04", "Title": "CEOS-ARD STAC Extension (SAR)", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2024, "Completion date": "2025-04-01", "Description": "Finalise an updated CEOS-ARD STAC extension for the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) PFS."}, {"Number": "VC-25-13", "Title": "GPCP v3.3 release", "Status": "open", "Creation year": 2025, "Completion date": "2025-03-31", "Description": "Release of new version of the Global Precipitation Climatology Project product with monthly data 1983-present and daily data 1998-present (4 monthly latency)"}]