CEOS had a strong presence at the 2024 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). The Systems Engineering Office (SEO) sponsored an exhibition booth for the week. CEOS was also represented across the technical programme, with a number of presentations & posters by CEOS community members.
Dave Borges (NASA, SEO) presented a poster on the CEOS Analytics Lab. The poster highlighted the technical implementation of this resource, and attracted a number of questions. David also presented a paper on behalf of his team about their ongoing work to develop “EO-GPT” – a generative AI architecture for Earth observation.
Andreia Siqueira (Geoscience Australia, LSI-VC Co-lead) & Clement Albinet (European Space Agency) chaired a Community-Contributed Session entitled “Analysis-Ready Data: The first step towards Interoperability” on behalf of CEOS. Presentations ranged from certifying datasets against the specifications, to applications of ARD.
A Scene of the “Analysis-Ready Data: The first step towards Interoperability” session.
At the exhibition booth, participants were attracted by the graphical wall that showcased the breadth of CEOS work, alongside satellite imagery from a number of CEOS missions. The booth also offered various stickers, including the special 40th Anniversary edition, and provided a small token for participants to take home with them. Additionally, the team distributed a flyer highlighting some of the activities of CEOS and postcards promoting the SDG EO Support Sheets.
Some common questions from visitors to the booth included:
- What is CEOS? How can I be involved?
- Where can I access data? Do you provide data?
- What is CEOS doing for climate, disasters and/or biodiversity?
There was also some interest from national space agencies who were interested in learning more about how to join CEOS and benefit from the international community expertise and engagement.
Steven Ramage (CEOS Executive Officer) & Gilberto Camara (INPE)
The booth included a presentation screen, where content from across CEOS was displayed. WGDisasters contributed some slides about their activities which proved interesting for attendees. The promotional video for the 2023 EO Handbook was also shown, alongside the 2022 SDG video and some slides about recent mission launches. We also included the video interviews received to date from USGS, AEM and ECMWF for the CEOS 40th anniversary video. These videos allowed for a more people-centric approach to be presented, and the team looks forward to receiving the remaining video submissions.
Libby Rose (SEO) & Irena Drakopoulou (CEOS Executive Officer Team)
David Borges
Director, Systems Engineering Office
