The CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS)

WGISS is one of three subgroups supporting the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites (CEOS). CEOS addresses coordination of the satellite Earth Observation (EO) programs of the world's government agencies, along with agencies that receive and process data acquired remotely from space.

The Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS) promotes collaboration in the development of systems and services that manage and supply EO data to users world-wide.

• The next WGISS meeting, WGISS 26, is scheduled for September 22 - 26, 2008, in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

• The following materials are from WGISS 25 that was held in Sanya, Hainan Province, China - February 25 - 29 2008

  • Preview information
  • WGISS 25 Agenda (includes links to presentations)

• The following materials from WGISS 24 that was held in Oberpfaffenhofen Germany,  October 15 - 19 2007 are now posted.

  • WGISS 24 Agenda
  • Meeting content (presentations and documents) zipped
  • Action items
  • WGISS 24 meeting minutes



• In response to the action item related to "Improving Utilization of Earth Observation Satellite Data Report December 2003," CEOS Space Agency members are providing an initial integrated catalog, search, ordering, and retrieval mechanisms. The CEOS EO data portal provides this initial step.  An additional resource for EO data users can be found through a paper presented at the ISPRS XXth Congress Proceedings which describes many EO holdings of CEOS organizations.