Community Spotlight
Dear CEOS Community,
April 2026 marked the fifth anniversary of the Earth Observation Training, Education, and Capacity Development Network (EOTEC DevNet) - a vibrant global community of over 2,300 professionals spanning more than 120 countries launched in 2021 under WGCapD.
To mark this milestone and address the changing landscape of our field, WGCapD and EOTEC DevNet recently co-hosted a joint webinar titled Decision-Maker Perspectives on the Evolving Demand for EO Capacity Building. The over 100 participants from government, the private sector, and capacity development organisations explored how the rapid expansion of EO user communities and the rise of artificial intelligence are fundamentally shifting how capacity building must be delivered. A key takeaway from the webinar was that the audience for EO training is expanding far beyond traditional remote sensing specialists, with operational decision-makers increasingly looking for practical, application-focused learning pathways tailored to their specific roles.
WGCapD’s other accomplishments are also featured in the CEOS Newsletter article below - where Dan Matsapola from SANSA reflects on his three years of service leading CEOS WGCapD. Furthermore, you can also explore future learning opportunities in the CEOS Training Calendar - all upcoming events are listed below.
Warmest regards,
Yasha Moz
NASA, WGCapD, EOTEC DevNet Secretariat
CEOS Newsletter Highlights
WGCapD Leadership Reflection and Future Outlook
June 2026
Hear from WGCapD Chair, Daniel Matsapola, as he reflects on his tenure and discusses the future of EO capacity building.
CEOS Blog Highlights
Architecture for Interoperability: Building the Foundations
14th May 2026
Read about the Architecture factor of the Interoperability Handbook, which describes the organisational structure of concepts, processes, and assets, including data.
CEOS Analytics Lab: Harmonising Multisource Earth Observation Analysis at Scale
18th May 2026
Learn about the CEOS Analytics Lab (CAL), and how it has been adopted across the CEOS community as a collaborative, scalable environment for data analysis.
The Importance of Data Quality in Enabling Interoperability
2nd July 2026
Understand the Quality factor of the Interoperability Handbook, which provides quality indicators, parameters, and metrics that describe key characteristics of EO data, including accuracy, uncertainty, consistency, and other related performance attributes.
CEOS MIM Database Q2 2026 Report
Recent Meetings
Upcoming CEOS Meetings
2026 SIT Technical Workshop: 8 - 11 September 2026 | Washington, D.C., USA
LSI-VC-20 & CEOS-ARD Development Sprint: 14 - 16 September 2026 | Reston, VA, USA
WGDisasters-26: 14 - 18 September 2026 | Rome, Italy
WGClimate-25: 23 October 2026 | Virtual
WGISS-62: 26 - 30 October 2026 | Boulder, Colorado, USA
40th CEOS Plenary: 3 - 6 November 2026 | Hobart, Australia
CEOS WGCV SAR Calibration & Validation Workshop 2026: 30 November - 4 December 2026 | Perth, Australia
WGCV-57: 16 - 19 February 2027 | Thailand
SIT-42: 20 - 22 April 2027 | Washington D.C., USA
2027 SIT Technical Workshop: 7 - 9 September 2027 | Irvine, California, USA
41st CEOS Plenary: 1 - 5 November 2027 | Bergen, Norway
All upcoming CEOS meetings and related external events can be viewed on the CEOS website meetings page.
CEOS Training Calendar
Harnessing NISAR: Next-Generation Radar Observations for Earth Applications: 02 July 2026 - 16 July 2026. Virtual
IOCCG Summer Lecture Series: 05 July 2026. Venice, Italy
Species Distribution Modeling with Google Earth Engine: 07 July 2026 - 14 July 2026. Virtual
Estimating Surface PM2.5 Using Satellite Data and Other Information Sources: 08 July 2026 - 22 July 2026. Virtual
Ports of Forecasting: Marine Weather Exchange: 20 July 2026. Virtual
The Fifth Weather-AI Bootcamp: 03 August 2026. Jincheon, North Chungcheong Province, Republic of Korea, N/A
EUMETCAL Hackathon on Winter Weather: 07 September 2026. Norrköping, Sweden
ESSL-EUMETSAT Testbed on Severe Convective Storms: 14 September 2026. Wiener Neustadt, Austria
BIP-M training (Advanced Meteorological Training Course) in the discipline of General Meteorology: 14 September 2026. Pune, India
Innovation Café - Celebrating 40 years of innovation at EUMETSAT: 21 September 2026. Darmstadt, Germany
9th European Weather Cloud (EWC) User Workshop: 22 September 2026. Darmstadt, Germany
Regional Focus Group of the Americas and the Caribbean - September 2026 Weather and Climate Discussion: 23 September 2026. Virtual
ESSL-EUMETSAT Testbed on Severe Convective Storms: 05 October 2026. Wiener Neustadt, Austria
International Training Course on Early Warning Capacity Building for Disasters Associated with the Asian-Australian-African Monsoon: 15 October 2026. Guangzhou, China
8th ESA-ECMWF-EUMETSAT Joint Training in Atmospheric Composition: 19 October 2026. Thessaloniki, Greece
TREVOR–SAFARI Symposium 2026: 27 October 2026. Kochi, India
FMI-EUMETSAT Aviation Forecaster Testbed 2026 - 2: 02 November 2026. Darmstadt, Germany
International Autumn School on Satellite Data Analysis: 09 November 2026. Athens, Greece
International Training Course on Tropical Cyclone Monitoring and Forecasting: 15 November 2026. Guangzhou, China
Advanced Satellite Course 2026: 16 November 2026. Offenbach (Main), N/A
ESSL-EUMETSAT Testbed on Severe Convective Storms: 10 May 2027. Wiener Neustadt, Austria
ESSL-EUMETSAT Testbed on Severe Convective Storms: 31 May 2027. Wiener Neustadt, Austria
ESSL-EUMETSAT Testbed on Severe Convective Storms: 13 September 2027. Wiener Neustadt, Austria
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