Assessment of Virtual Constellations (VCs) and Collaboration for Earth Observation Satellites

1. WGISS Working Group on Information Systems & Services Chair report Committee on Earth Observation Satellites • Mirko Albani - ESA • WGISS-47 • Silver Spring, USA • 29 April 2019

2. Assessment of Virtual Constellations (VCs) activities, outputs, management, continuity, and proposals around leadership rotation • Discussion on way forward for existing ad hoc Teams (AHTs) • Discussion of a CEOS Coastal Strategy to enhance VC/WG/AHT efforts focused on coastal research & observations • Reviewed progress and support to VNSC Mekong Initiative • Addressed other CEOS Plenary Actions due at SIT-34 • Initial presentation of 2020-2021 SIT Chair priorities • CEOS 2019-21 Work Plan • Presentations at http://ceos.org/meetings/sit-34/ • 2019 SIT Technical Workshop, Fairbanks (Alaska, USA), 9-12 September • 34th CEOS SIT Meeting, Miami 3-4 April 2019

3. Working Group on Information Provision to cover these and future efforts • CEOS Organization streamlining – Draft Proposal WGISS • A “Study Team” will define a proposal • WGISS will be involved to ensure alignment/complementarity with its activities and to clarify interfaces WGCalVal WGCapD

4. ARD side eventorganized by WGISS • Very well attended (about 20 people), very good discussions which highlighted the need to reinforce our collaboration with SEO (e.g. for FDA-10) and LSI-VC on FDA and ARD. • Lot of interest on the outcomes of the WGISS FDA one day workshop at WGISS-47 and expectations on tangible results deriving from our work. •  Define at WGISS-47 and then implement an FDA related quick-win project/demo to be shown at next plenary? •  Which one? • Need to organize at WGISS-48 a session on STAC and one on ARD tools and Data Cubes. They might be a natural follow-on of the WGISS-47 workshop. To be discussed/agreed with Chris. • 34th CEOS SIT Meeting: WGISS related outcomes

5. GEO Knowledge Hub side eventorganized by WGISS • Very well attended (15-20 people), excellent discussions on GEO KH concept and proposed way forward for implementation; Rob is member of Expert Advisory Group (EAG) defining proposal for GEO KH. • GEO KH concept continuously evolving to align with comments received from GEO EXCOM and GEO Members delegations. • GEO Work Plan is also being updated with major changes which will impact WGISS participation (e.g. possible termination of the GEOSS-Evolve initiative). WGISS Exec to define contribution to the new GEO work plan. •  Need a representative in the GEOSS Infrastructure Implementation Task Force which will replace the EAG. • CEOS SIT Chair asked WGISS to better understand impacts/implications for CEOS overall deriving from the GEO KH concept and to develop a response to be used at CEOS level (not a formal SIT action) • 34th CEOS SIT Meeting: WGISS related outcomes

6. All CEOS Virtual Constellation Co-Leads, Working Group Chairs and Vice Chairs, and Ad Hoc Team Co-Leads to provide updated content and information for the CEOS website to CEOS SEO, with a cc to the CEO. Due Date: 30 June 2019 • WGISS would like a representative to be named on the “GEOSS Infrastructure Development Foundational Task /Implementation Coordination/Task Force” • All WGs to provide feedback on new Deliverables Dashboard and to update CEOS deliverables tool. Due Date: 31 August 2019 • 34th CEOS SIT Meeting: • WGISS actions

7. 33rd CEOS Plenary VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 14-16 October 2019 –Hanoi, Vietnam http://www.vast.ac.vn/en/about-vast

8. WGISS Cooperation

9. CEOS Carbon Team-ongoingdevelopment of prototype Carbon Portal • WGClimate-ECV/CDRs registration in IDN in parallel with ECV inventory v3 update agreed during WGClimate-10 meeting • WGDisasters-possible cooperation on generic recovery observatory • WGCV-ongoing with two data cube prototypes (ESA and GA/CSIRO) supporting CAL/VAL activities through providing access to ACIX (16 sites), RadCalNet (4 sites) and LPV (3 sites) sites cal/val data. • Virtual Constellations- inventory of VC data to be updated to ensure discoverability/accessibility through WGISS infrastructure • WGCapD- joint organization of technology webinars and FDA events • SEO - COVE tool harvesting WGISS metadata, data cubes coordination • SDG AHT- SDGs platforms & data interoperability pilot under discussion • Synergies Among CEOS Teams

10. GSICS- WGISS presented at the Global Space Inter-Calibration System annual meeting; cooperation areas with Data and Research WG identified • GEO • GEOSS Platform accessing CEOS agencies data via WGISS CDA • WGISS membership in GEOSS-EVOLVE initiative and GEO Expert Advisory Group (EAG) • WGISS participation & support to 4th GEO Technology Workshop • WGISS represented in NextGEOSS Advisory Board and working with NextGEOSS on federated authentication technology solutions • Joint Workshops on GEOSS-WGISS interoperability and FDA held at WGISIS#43 and WGISS#46. • GEO Knowledge Hub side event organized at SIT-34  GEO Sec invited to attend WGISS-47.  CEOS representation in the GEOSS Implementation Task Force • Cooperation with other groups

11. WGISS Internal Matters

12. WGISS • Chair, Mirko Albani, ESA • Vice-Chair, Robert Woodcock, CSIRO • WGISS Principals • AOE/CAS: Guangyu Liu • CCMEO: Patrick King • CNES: Richard Moreno • CONAE: Homero Lozza • CSIRO: Robert Woodcock • DLR: Katrin Molch • EC: Astrid Koch • ESA: Mirko Albani • EUMETSAT: Michael Schick • GA: Simon Oliver • HSO: Gabor Remetey • INPE: Lubia Vinhas • ISRO: Nitant Dube • JAXA: Yosuke Ikehata • NASA: Andrew Mitchell • NOAA: Kenneth Casey • NRSCC: Chuang Liu • RADI: Lizhe Wang • ROSCOSMOS: Pavel Tischenko • USGS: Kristi Kline • UKSA: Sophie Hebden WGISS Secretariat Michelle Piepgrass, ESA • WGISS Structure WGISS Infrastructure Services Project Martin Yapur, NOAA – until end April 2019 Data Preservation and Stewardship Interest Group (Mirko Albani, ESA) Discovery and Access - WGISS Connected Data Assets System Level Team (Yonsook Enloe, NASA) - IDN(Michael Morahan, NASA) - FedEO(Andrea Della Vecchia, ESA ; Yves Coene, ESA) - CWIC(Yonsook Enloe, NASA) - OpenSearch II (Andrea Della Vecchia, ESA; Olivier Barois, ESA) Interoperability and Use Interest Group (Robert Woodcock, CSIRO; Richard Moreno, CNES) - Future Data Architectures (Robert Woodcock, CSIRO; Richard Moreno, CNES; Kristi Kline, USGS) - Carbon Portal (Kenneth Casey, NOAA, Liping Di, NOAA) - Data Analytics Software and Tools (Iolanda Maggio, ESA) Technology Exploration Interest Group (Chris Lynnes, NASA; Yosuke Ikehata, JAXA)

13. Interagency coordination working well, very good cooperation spirit • Healthy participation to meetings (average 20-25) • Some members attending all meetings (e.g. NASA, NOAA, USGS, CNES, ESA, CSIRO, JAXA, RADI, AOE CAS, RSCC, HSO) • Others attending only some meetings depending on location and discussed topics (e.g. EUMETSAT, ROSCOSMOS, INPE, CONAE, DLR, UKSA, ISRO) • Additional agencies expressed interest in WGISS activities with potential future participation (e.g. GISTDA, VNSC/VAST, ASI, CSA, CCMEO) WGISS Vice Chair Nomination October 2019 – October 21 • Sustainable Commitment The WGISS Infrastructure Services Project (WISP) provides core services and support for WGISS activities (e.gwebconf, website, mailing list, meetings archive). NOAA will support WISP until April 2019 (WGISS#47); WGISS Chair will ask SEO to fully support these services after April 2019.

14. Contact: Mirko.Albani@esa.int