1. WGISS Working Group for Information Systems & Services
Chair report
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
WGISS Working Group for Information Systems & Services
Richard Moreno
CNES – WGISS chair
WGISS-40
Harwell – United Kingdom
28th September – 02nd October 2015

2. Content
SIT technical Workshop 2015
WGISS 40
CEOS Plenary 2015

3. SIT Technical Workshop 2015
15th – 18th September 2015
Agenda and documents available at
Some key elements :
Last SIT meeting for CNES SIT team
ESA is the incoming SIT team
Side meetings
Land Surface Imaging Virtual Constellation LSI VC
Water Strategy

4. SIT Technical Workshop 2015
VC/WG
working day

5. SIT Technical Workshop 2015
“Actions” from SIT meeting
Present more precisely the “Purge Alert procedure” during next CEOS SEC (01 Oct)
Cooperation with other groups
LSI
WGCAPD (Capacity Building)
WG Climate
WGCV (Cal / Val)
SEO
Work for GEO

6. WGISS 40
Status
report
from
IGs
Projects

7. WGISS 40
Workshop “EO Ground Segment and Data Access Evolution Workshop”
Data Cube
SEO
Kenya cube
Venezuela cube
LSI
GA, ESA, USGS initiatives

8. CEOS Plenary 2015 Topics to be covered
Opensearch / interoperability Video
Data Purge Alert procedure
Incoming chair initiatives (initiated at next plenary)
A study of Non-meteorological applications for next generation geostationary satellites
A study of Future Data Access and Analysis Architectures
The Data Architectures effort seeks to fold in ongoing or planned work within WGISS, GFOI/SDCG, and the LSI-VC. And we look forward to the contribution and cooperation of these groups as well as individual CEOS agencies with relevant interests.