EOTEC DevNet December Newsletter

As 2025 comes to a close, we send heartfelt greetings to everyone in the EOTEC DevNet community! We’re grateful for the many ways you have supported our global network of EO capacity builders. Special thanks to our regional community of practice leads and global leadership team.

We hope you all have time to rest and recharge and come back in 2026 energized to continue our collaboration!!

📬 Read the full newsletter HERE (More images there!)

✅ Help Us Reach 2,026 LinkedIn Followers

EOTEC DevNet continues to grow—and we are close to a new milestone. If you can, please support a final push toward 2,026 followers by January 1 by following the company page, inviting colleagues to follow, and sharing EOTEC posts.

Follow: www.linkedin.com/company/eotec-devnet/

✅ Quick Survey: Shape What EOTEC Delivers in 2026

We want EOTEC to be practical and useful for your work. Please take a few minutes to complete our short survey and share:

what is working well,
what could be strengthened, and
ideas for future activities.

Deadline: January 9
SURVEY LINK

✅ NISAR in Focus

Mission scientists working on the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission will join EOTEC’s January 21/22 regional Flood Working Group meet-ups to share key updates and use cases illustrating how this new satellite will support flood management.

✅ Other Things EOTEC Has Been Doing…

Fantastic November webinar on AI and EO Education
Design lab on our new EO Capacity Building Needs Assessment Guidance at the joint CALMet XVI-CONECT 3 conference
Highlighted EOTEC and partners’ work at the Earth Observation Forum 2025, hosted by the Polish Space Agency
Drought Tool Tracker development is moving forward – thanks to all the volunteers who are contributing!
EOTEC was not represented at AGU, but we still made a nice poster! See the full newsletter to view.

✅ Cool Stuff from Our Network

CEOS

Welcome to ESA’s Christoph Aubrecht, as vice-chair of WGCapD, joining Chair Dan Matsapola of SANSA
ARD concept note and survey
Updated Interoperability Handbook with GitHub page

WMO

75th anniversary edition bulletin
First-ever: State of the Climate in the Arab Region report

GEO

Open House webinars highlight aspects of the GEO Work Program (videos also available here.)

UNOOSA

Welcome UNOOSA’s UN-SPIDER Chief Lorant Czaran as chair of CEOS WGDisasters
Joint initiative with FAO on Space4Agriculture, with data survey

IDMP

Drought Risk and Impact Assessment course

✅ Mark Your Calendar

Flood Working Group (NISAR focus): January 21/22, 2026
Regional CoP Task Team meet-ups: March 18/19, 2026
Regional Drought Working Group meet-ups: April 22/23, 2026

📌 Share Your Trainings and Events

Every Friday we publish a weekly round-up of training opportunities, events, and deadlines on our website and social media. Send your announcements and we will help amplify them.

Email: Secretariat@eotecdev.net

✅ Call for Ideas: May Webinar Topic

We are currently collecting suggestions for the May EOTEC DevNet webinar. If you have a topic proposal, a speaker recommendation, or a demo idea, please get in touch.