Progress on Standards Development for Remote Sensing in the Geosciences [Technical Committees]

The rapid development and deployment of new remote sensing instrumentation is transforming the way we acquire and interpret information on all aspects of environmental and human activity. This is driving the need for technical standards that support the processing, management, analysis, and quality assessment of data from these sources. The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Standards for Earth Observations (SEO) Technical Committee (TC) was created in 2017 to support this need. To date, it has sponsored four standards development projects, with two new projects starting soon. This article highlights the scope of each and looks at future directions.