Slide 1 WGISS CEOS WGISS 23, Hanoi, 21-25 May 2007 CEOS-level conference Ivan Petiteville (ESA), WGISS Chair.

CEOS WGISS 23, Hanoi, 21-25 May 2007 Slide 1

WGISS

CEOS-level conference

Ivan Petiteville (ESA), WGISS Chair


WGISS History

• Difficulty to organize EOGEO raised as an issue at WGISS-22 (Annapolis, Sep. 2006)

• To solve that issue, initial idea to expand it at whole CEOS presented at both CEOS SIT (Sep. 2006) and CEOS Plenary (Nov. 2007)

• 3 Working Groups tasked by CEOS to write a proposal for a “CEOS-level conference”

• Submission of proposal to CEOS on (March 15, 2007)


WGISS Proposal

• Title: CEOS Conference on “Space for GEO”

• Annual international conference to address all issues related to space contribution to GEO.– Conference prepared in cooperation with the GEO

Secretariat.– Duration: 2 to 3 days– Number of participants: 200 to 300


WGISS Objectives of Proposal (1/2)

1. Address the impact of technology, science, data policy, user needs, private sector,… on space in the scope of GEO

2. Promote the CEOS contributions to GEO activities

3. Reinforce the role of CEOS as space coordinator for GEO

4. Promote CEOS and GEO to broader Earth science and applications community


WGISS Content of Proposal (2/2)

1. Forum for both the CEOS WG participants and the CEOS Principals to:

– exchange ideas– improve the communication between the two

levels.

2. Provide a good opportunity for CEOS/WG representatives to:

– Discover the CEOS contributions to GEO– Stimulate new contributions from CEOS to GEO– Increase the current contributions across a

wider range of GEO activities.


WGISS Participants

• Space agencies, governmental and inter-governmental and private stakeholders – value-added companies developing applications

using space data; System integrators; commercial data distributors; ..

• End-users – decision makers, local authority, policy makers,

public institutions, scientists ….

• Science community – scientists, academia, university professors and

students…

• GEO Task Teams Leaders and Members


WGISS Participants


WGISS Summary of reactions from CEOS• Very few comments received so far.

• CONS– Already too many conferences. Maybe in 1 or 2 years– Linked it to ISRSE (also proposed verbally by Norway)– Conference objectives all very good, but total sum is very

wide-ranging.– Lot of work to prepare the agenda, organize speakers. Lack

of the resources considering other CEOS efforts (WG activities, GCOS Implementation Plan, Constellations, GEO Plenary preparation, etc.).

– Financing complicated, even with registration fees or sponsorship.

• PROS– Timely proposal– Forum for a wider dialogue among CEOS agencies, users,

and related organizations – Useful venue for GEO, CEOS WG participants, and for the

Constellations.


WGISS CEOS SEC 102 recommendation

• End of April 2007:

• It is felt that the objectives of this conference are still quite broad, while there are limited resources to organize such an event. There will be an offline discussion involving the CEOS Chair, and WG Chairs on this topic planned in the near future.


WGISS Way forward

• Some ideas collected at last WGEdu meeting (2 weeks ago at ESRIN/ESA, Frascati):– Lower the number topics being addressed– Focus the conference to a chosen

constellation(s)• Proposal will be updated again for next

SIT meeting (19-20 June). • Other updates might be needed

between June and November 2007, in order to arrive at CEOS Plenary (Nov. 2007 ) with a proposal acceptable by CEOS Principals.


WGISS EOGEO

• WGISS participants at next EOGEO meeting (coupled with FOSS4G 2007) and potential topics ?

• Link EOGEO to IEEE-GEOSS workshops in 2008 ?


WGISS

Slide 1 WGISS CEOS WGISS 23, Hanoi, 21-25 May 2007 CEOS-level conference Ivan Petiteville (ESA), WGISS Chair.

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