CEOP (Coordinated Enhanced Observation Period) is an effort to address some of the critical aspects of the climate system involving land areas in particular over a 2 year period beginning in mid-2001.
GOFC (Global Observation of Forest Cover) works to improve the quality and availability of observations of forests at regional and global scales and to produce useful, timely and validated information products from these data for a wide variety of users.
ISPRS (The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) is a non-governmental organization devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry and remote sensing and their applications.