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The RGB Developers and Users Workshop was held both in-person in the new CIRA Commons, and on-line (18-20 October 2022). It was co-hosted by B. Connell (CIRA), D. Lindsey (GOES-R), M. Higgins (EUMETSAT) and WMO. This workshop brought together a variety of national and international satellite imagery users, product developers and training staff, with attendees from 23 countries covering the six WMO Regions. Goals of the workshop include the development of best practices for new/existing Red-Green-Blue (RGB) imagery products and training materials, improving product distribution to users, promoting a key list of “standardized” RGB recipes and coordinating with the WMO on the development of an official RGB Working Group within the WMO. The workshop also discussed recently developed and upcoming RGB imagery products for use with ABI (GOES-R), VIIRS (JPSS), AHI (Himawari-8/9), AMI (GeoKOMPSAT-2A), FCI (Meteosat Third Generation) and METImage (Metop-SG). CIRA attendees included: B. Connell, D. Bikos, J. Torres, C. Seaman, S. Miller, D. Molenar, Y.J. Noh, M. DeMaria, G. Chirokova, D. Smith, T. Higginbotham, T. Nelson, and B. Line (NOAA). B. Line and C. Seaman provided presentations (listed below), while D. Lindsey and B. Connell moderated a variety of “open space” and formal presentation sessions. A group photo of all in-person attendees is included below. From a CIRA perspective, we are honored to have the Fire Temperature RGB and Day Fire RGB (formerly Natural Fire Color/Day Land Cloud Fire RGB) adopted as internationally recognized RGBs. (POCs: B. Connell, C. Seaman, CIRA, D. Lindsey and B. Line, NOAA, Bernie.Connell@colostate.edu, Curtis.Seaman@colostate.edu, Dan.Lindsey@noaa.gov, Bill.Line@noaa.gov) Funding: WMO, EUMETSAT, NOAA, GOES-R, JPSS