The core session timing is as follows. The meeting line will be open 30 minutes before the start of sessions. If you wish to test your IT setup (mic, speakers, screen sharing) please flag the SIT Chair Team by email (sit-chair@lists.ceos.org) or on the meeting chat.
Washington DC | UTC | Rome | Tokyo | Canberra |
06:30 - 09:00 | 10:30 - 13:00 | 12:30 - 15:00 | 19:30 - 22:00 | 21:30 - 00:00 |
A more complete set of local times can be found here.
Arrival Contact the SIT Chair Team to test your audio and screen sharing before or during this arrival period. | 10:00 - 10:30 Agenda times UTC | |
Session 1: Welcome and Opening Session Objectives: Brief reminder of SIT Chair priorities and SIT-37 objectives. Framing of points relevant to SIT-37 objectives from the CEOS 2022-2024 Work Plan and the CEOS-GEO dialogue. CEOS Chair update on their priorities as they relate to SIT-37, and report by the CEOS Systems Engineering Office (SEO). Decision Points:
Session Duration: 30 mins Target Session Start: 10:30 UTC | ||
1.1 | Welcome and Opening Remarks Simonetta Cheli/SIT Chair
| 10 mins |
1.2 | CEOS 2022-2024 Work Plan - Highlights Marie-Claire Greening/CEO [presentation]
| 5 mins |
1.3 | Progress on CEOS Chair Priorities Selma Cherchali/CEOS Chair [presentation]
| 15 mins |
1.4 | SEO Report Brian Killough/SEO [presentation]
| 10 mins |
Session 2: Climate and Carbon Objectives: Review of the multiplicity of activities across the CEOS structure in relation to our support to the UNFCCC, the Paris Climate Agreement and its Global Stocktake process. This includes opportunities around Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU), greenhouse gases (GHG), and above ground biomass. Decision Points:
Session Duration: 1h55m Target Session Start: 11:00 UTC | ||
2.1 | Session Overview & Context | 5 mins |
2.2 | WGClimate Report on COP-26 Outcomes & Use Case Studies progress
| 10 mins |
2.3 | GHG Roadmap Update
| 10 mins |
2.4 | AFOLU Roadmap Update Osamu Ochiai/JAXA, Frank Martin Seifert/ESA, Ben Poulter/NASA / LSI-VC Forest & Biomass
| 15 mins |
Break | 11:40 UTC 5 mins | |
2.5 | National Inventory User Engagement Sylvia Wilson, Joana Melo / USGS SilvaCarbon | 15 mins |
2.6 | CEOS Strategy for the Global Stocktake Stephen Briggs/SIT Chair Team
| 10 mins |
2.7 | GST Process & Systematic Observations Synthesis Report
| 15 mins |
2.8 | Summary, outlook & coordination SIT Chair Team
| 15 mins |
Adjourn | ~13:05 UTC | |
The core session timing is as follows. The meeting line will be open 30 minutes before the start of sessions. If you wish to test your IT setup (mic, speakers, screen sharing), please flag the SIT Chair Team by email (sit-chair@lists.ceos.org) or on the meeting chat.
Washington DC | UTC | Rome | Tokyo | Canberra |
06:30 - 09:10 | 10:30 - 13:10 | 12:30 - 15:10 | 19:30 - 22:10 | 21:30 - 00:10 |
A more complete set of local times can be found here.
Arrival Contact the SIT Chair Team to test your audio and screen sharing before or during this arrival period. | 10:00 - 10:30 Agenda times UTC | |
Session 3: Global Agendas - CEOS priorities Objectives: Review progress and provide input on CEOS support to existing commitments: SDGs and Disasters. Discussion on possible future support for CEOS around the topic of biodiversity. Biodiversity Item 3.3 Objectives:
Decision Points:
Session Duration: 1h20m Target Session Start: 10:30 UTC | ||
3.1 | SDGs Brian Killough/SEO, Laurent Durieux/GEO [presentation]
| 30 mins |
3.2 | Disasters Hélène de Boissezon/WGDisasters [presentation]
| 20 mins |
3.3 | Biodiversity Gary Geller/NASA, Marie-Josée Bourassa/CSA [DRAFT presentation]
| 30 mins |
Break | 11:50 UTC 5 mins | |
Session 4: New Space & Future CEOS Objectives: Reflection on the new geometries in the satellite EO sector, including increasing proportion of commercial missions, and CEOS agency arrangements for commercial data buy and partnerships - hearing agency experiences and examples and strategising how public programmes and CEOS must adapt in the decade ahead with this new context. Please refer to the background paper (v1) distributed ahead of SIT for further context and objectives. Decision Points:
Session Duration: 1h05 mins Target Session Start: 11:55 UTC | ||
4.1 | Scene-setting SIT Chair Team [presentation]
| 15 mins |
4.2 | Case studies from CEOS Agencies In response to SIT Chair invitation ahead of SIT-37 [presentation]
| 30 mins |
4.3 | Discussion on CEOS Strategy
| 15 mins |
4.4 | Day 2 Closing Remarks SIT Chair | 5 mins |
Adjourn | ~13:00 UTC | |
The core session timing is as follows. The meeting line will be open 30 minutes before the start of sessions. If you wish to test your IT setup (mic, speakers, screen sharing), please flag the SIT Chair Team by email (sit-chair@lists.ceos.org) or on the meeting chat.
Washington DC | UTC | Rome | Tokyo | Canberra |
06:30 - 09:00 | 10:30 - 13:00 | 12:30 - 15:00 | 19:30 - 22:00 | 21:30 - 00:00 |
A more complete set of local times can be found here.
Arrival Contact the SIT Chair Team to test your audio and screen sharing before or during this arrival period. | 10:00 - 10:30 Agenda times UTC | |
Session 5: Working Teams Business Objectives: This session will be reserved for business items nominated by Virtual Constellations, Working Groups, and ad hoc Teams which require decision, endorsement, and/or SIT and CEOS Principal attention. Decision Points:
Session Duration: 45 mins Target Session Start: 10:30 UTC | ||
5.1 | CEOS ARD Oversight Group - Update & Outlook Ferran Gascon (ARD Oversight Group Lead) & Steve Labahn (LSI-VC Co-Lead) [presentation]
| 15 min |
5.2 | Update on Aquatic Carbon Marie-Helene Rio/ESA and Ewa Kwiatkowska/EUMETSAT - OCR-VC [presentation] | 10 min |
5.3 | AC-VC Issues
| WP: 5 mins IMEO: 15 mins |
Session 6: Oceans and Coasts Objectives: Review early discussion towards optimised CEOS coordination on Oceans, following-up from CEOS Plenary. Brief update on CEOS contributions to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). Decision Points:
Session Duration: 20 mins Target Session Start: 11:15 UTC | ||
6.1 | Oceans Coordination Team Ivan Petiteville/SIT Chair Team [presentation]
| 10 min |
6.2 | Update on Contributions to the UN Decade Joint: Paul M. DiGiacomo/CEOS-COAST [presentation] and Jorge Vazquez/COVERAGE [presentation] | CEOS-COAST: 5 min COVERAGE: 5 min |
Session 7: Closing Objectives: Provide an opportunity for a Plenary session if required. Review session discussion, items arising, any other business, and actions. Closing remarks and future meetings. Decision Points:
Session Duration: 1h20m Target Session Start: 11:40 UTC | ||
Break | 11:35 UTC 5 mins | |
7.1 | CEOS Plenary Session (Discussion) CNES/CEOS Chair
| 15 mins |
7.2 | Update on CEOS-GEO Coordination Doug Cripe/GEO Secretariat, Ivan Petiteville/SIT Chair Team [presentation]
| 10 mins |
7.3 | Closing Discussion SIT Chair Team Moderation
| 30 mins |
7.4 | Review of Draft Decisions and Actions SIT Chair Team
| 15 mins |
7.5 | Closing Remarks SIT Chair
| 10 mins |
Adjourn | 13:00 UTC | |
SIT-37 AGENDA v1-0 - VIRTUAL ONLY