1. Incoming chair initiative
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
Incoming chair initiative
Richard Moreno
CNES – WGISS chair
WGISS-40
Harwell – United Kingdom
28th September 2015

2. The two initiatives
A study of Non-meteorological applications for next generation geostationary satellites
The geostationary applications effort seeks to build upon a Japan-Australia collaboration which exploits the world-first technology available on Himawari-8 - which we anticipate will have world-wide appeal as next generation GEO satellites are launched. 
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.