As EUMETSAT is the permanent secretariat of the CGMS it is responsible for securing the annual plenary session, following up on plenary actions, guiding the CGMS between plenary sessions, guiding the CGMS working groups, and its general management and administration. The CGMS meets regularly each year and in 2025, EUMETSAT will host the 53rd CGMS plenary meeting which will take place in Evian, France on 3 – 6 June.
The CGMS is made up of institutional operational and research and development space agency members from around the world, making up the space-based observational backbone in response to two main user organisations - the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC/UNESCO).
During the plenary meeting, CGMS space agency members will report on their new developments and long-term plans. This will be followed by detailed presentations from each of its five working groups on the results of work in such fields as frequency coordination, collision avoidance and space debris mitigation, the status of data and products from space-based observations including climate and greenhouse gas monitoring, the use of satellite data in artificial intelligence / machine learning models, securing long term observational continuity and support to users, including training.
The meeting is open to CGMS members, observers and upon invitation only. More information can be found here.
