About Standards for Earth Observations
Mission
Standards activities provide a proven path to advancing technology implementation and are a natural extension to the technical activities carried out within IEEE Societies and Councils.
In 2017 the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society formed the Standards for Earth Observations Technical Committee to support the development and promotion of technical standards related to the generation, distribution, and utilization of interoperable data products from remote sensing systems. By 2020 five standards development projects, sponsored by the GRSS Standards Committee (GRSS/SC), had been initiated with the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA).
Recognizing the uniqueness and importance of standards work within the Society, the GRSS created the Standards in Earth Observations Ad Hoc Committee (SEOAH) to function as the managing organizational unit within GRSS to handle standards development. The GRSS/SC, which is within the IEEE-SA, functions under the umbrella of the SEOAH. The SEOAH continues to foster the creation of standards that address identified needs. This is being accomplished by:
- Liaising with the GRSS Technical Committees to identify where standardization of a remote sensing product or service could lead to greater adoption in some target market
- Engaging representatives from remote sensing companies, research institutions, and standards laboratories in standards development activities that it sponsors
- Exploring the creation of working groups within Standards Development Organizations such as IEEE, OGC, CEOS, and ISO
- Soliciting sponsors for standards development work
- Performing education and outreach to maximize standard adoption
Scope
The scope of the GRSS Standards for Earth Observations Technical Committee includes all types of Earth-observing systems and products. Standards development efforts will be undertaken via an open consensus process by an appropriate Standards Development Organization.
Membership is open to all interested parties.
Contact Information:
The GRSSS Standards in Earth Observations encourages participation from all its members.
Chair
 | Dr. Siri Jodha Khalsa National Snow and Ice Data Center USA |
Co-Chair
 | George Percivall GeoRoundtable USA |
Current Standards Projects
- Characterization and Calibration of Hyperspectral Imaging Devices Working Group (P4001)
- Synthetic Aperture Radar Metadata Content Working Group (P4002)
- Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry Data and Metadata Content Working Group (P4003)
- Calibration of microwave radiometers Working Group (P4004)
- Standards and protocols for soil spectroscopy Working Group (P4005)
- Remote Sensing RFI Impact Assessment Working Group (P4006)
Working Groups:
Characterization and Calibration of Hyperspectral Imaging Devices Working Group (P4001)
This standard defines performance characteristics for hyperspectral cameras, as well as metadata for hyperspectral images, for a set of use cases defined to represent a wide range of applications.
Synthetic Aperture Radar Metadata Content Working Group (P4002)
The scope of this standard involves the metadata for describing airborne and spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. This standard specifies the metadata content structure, as well as the text representation.
Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry Data and Metadata Content Working Group (P4003)
The scope of this standard involves the metadata for describing airborne and spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. This standard specifies the metadata content structure, as well as the text representation.
Current membership (as of February 2020):
| Last Name | First Name | Affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunita | Amity university, noida | Inida | |
| Agram | Piyush | NASA – JPL | USA |
| Ahmad | Touseef | Space Applications Centre Ahmedabad | India |
| Al-Khaldi | Mohammad | ElectroScience Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University | USA |
| Allgair | John | BRIDG | USA |
| Awuviri | Alexander | GRIDCo | Ghana |
| Awuviri | Alexander | RFMICROTEK | Ghana |
| Baumann | Peter | Jacobs University | Germany |
| Baumgartner | Andreas | DLR | Germany |
| Ben Dor | Eyal | University of Tel Aviv | Israel |
| Böker | Dietmar | IABG | Assling |
| Camps | Adriano | UPC Barcelona | Spain |
| Carlier | Simon | Aalto University | Finland |
| Carreno-Luengo | Hugo | Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department, University of Michigan | USA |
| Catarino | Nuno | Deimos Portugal | Portugal |
| DELIOT | Philippe | ONERA | FRANCE |
| Darnell | Barbara | Bodkin Design | United States |
| Donna | Howland | Northrop Grumman | US |
| Duburg | Dominique | TOTAL | Unknown |
| Durell | Christopher | United States | New Hampshire |
| Elarab | Manal | MicaSense Inc. | United States |
| Evans | Betty | Digital Globe | USA |
| Fong | Alexandre | TruTag Technologies | United States |
| Fritz | Thomas | DLR | Germany |
| GILCHRIST | John | CAMLIN Photonics Ltd | United Kingdom |
| Gariepy | Genevieve | ABB | Canada |
| Gonzalez | Carolina | ||
| Grizonnet | Manuel | CNES | France |
| Gutierrez | Antonio | Deimos Portugal | Portugal |
| Hardy | Caroline | University of Johannesburg | South Africa |
| Hikichi | KEIta | Kosuai Kogto | Japan |
| Holzwarth | Stefanie | DLR | Germany |
| Hong | Wen | Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China |
| Junjun | Yin | University of Science and technology Beijing | China |
| Jurado | Pedro | ||
| Kannambadi | Gurudatta | Aaron-GSD | India |
| Khalsa | Siri Jodha | Univ. of Colorado, Boulder | USA |
| Lamb | Mark | Northrop Grumman, Los Angeles | USA |
| Lo Monte | Lorenzo | Telephonics | USA |
| Lopez-Sanchez | Juan M | Universidad de Alicante | Spain |
| Mallenahalli | Naresh Kumar | National Remote Sensing Centre (ISRO) | India |
| Mallorqui | Jordi J. | CommSensLab – Unidad de Excelencia Maria de Maeztu | Spain |
| Mazza | Antonio | University Federico | Italy |
| Meyer | Franz | ASF Chief Scientist | USA |
| Miao | Yuanjing | National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China |
| Pacifici | Fabio | Digital Globe | USA |
| Papathanassiou | Kostas | DLR | Germany |
| Percivall | George | OGC | USA |
| Pierce | Leland | The University of Michigan, EECS Dept. | USA |
| Ralph | Gendron | ||
| Reigber | Andreas | DLR | Germany |
| Romero | Kevin | Northrop Grumman | USA |
| Rosen | Paul | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | USA |
| Ruggieri | Marina | University of Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ | Italy |
| SS | VijayaShekar | IIT-V | India |
| Saketapuram | Haripriya | National Remote Sensing Centre ISRO | India |
| Schwartzkopf | Wade | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) | USA |
| Schwegmann | Colin | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) | South Africa |
| Skauli | Torbjorn | Norwegian defence research (FFI) | Norway |
| Stiefel | Avi | ISI | Israel |
| Strobl | Peter | European Commission, Joint Research Centre | Italy |
| Sundberg | Robert | Spectral Sciences, Inc. | US |
| Takashi | Kazuori | Oyo Corp. | Japan |
| Ustuner | Mustafa | Yıldız Technical University | Turkey |
| Villalon-Turrubiates | Ivan | ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara | Mexico |
| Voimov | Sergey | DLR | Germany |
| Wang | Tianlin | University of Michigan | USA |
| Xu | Xingou | National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China |
| Yagne | Nestor | DLR | |
| Younis | Marwan | DLR | Germany |
| kushwaha | sunni kanta prasad | Indian Institute of Technology – Roorkee | India |
