The LPV Working Group, which is comprised of the chairs, secretariat, and focus area leads, trys to convene for a day annually if possible. The focus areas also attempt to convene when possible. These are all opportunistic meetings that attempt to capitalize on large gatherings of EO scientists.
As with many other meetings, the LPV Subgroup was forced to hold a virtual Plenary this year. The meeting was split over a two day period, for a few hours each day, hoping to minimize inconvient times for all.
The focus was on progress toward standardization of validation practices and the latest achievements in the land validation domain. The first day included reports on current validation and intercomparison activities, operational services on product validation, and efforts on fiducial reference data collection and ground networks, hoping to promote synergies among key actors. On Day 2 we focused on reporting from each of the ten LPV Subgroup focus areas.
Another LPV Plenary was held in Italy a year after the last one there, this time to take advancage of the large contingent of the LPV working group that were attending the 2019 Living Planet Symposium in Milan.
The NDVI focus area meeting was convened in Washington, DC during the week of AGU to take advantage of all the folks who were in town that week for AGU.
This LPV Plenary was convened at ESA/ESRIN in conjunction with the Land Product Validation and Evolution workshop held at the same location earlier in the week.
The LPV Working Group meets bi-monthly by teleconference and decided in 2020 to start posting the telecon minutes for those interested in these interactions.