The IDEAS-QA4EO service contract, follow-on of the former IDEAS+ service, was awarded by ESA to a large consortium of international partners lead by TVUK and Serco. The IDEAS-QA4EO service acts on behalf of ESA-SPPA section for ensuring the best data quality of ESA operational EO missions, this includes a wide range of activities, spanning from the Routine Quality Control to the Algorithm Development and Cal/Val (Calibration and Validation) activities.

In the frame of IDEAS-QA4EO consortium, Task 2 is the place where innovative ideas are promoted and incubated with the goal to further improving algorithm baseline, calibration and validation protocols, data quality assessment procedures.