CEOS WGISS-24 Agenda

Updated 16^th October 2007

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WGISS 24 Group Photo

Monday, October 15, 2007

Bus departs hotels 8:00, arrives at DLR 8:30.

8:00 Bus Departs Hotels

9:00 WGISS Opening Session

9:00 Welcoming Session, Introductions of Participants Ivan Petiteville

9:15 Welcome Address Prof. Stefan Dech

Director, German Remote

Sensing Data Center

Co-director of the Cluster

Applied Remote Sensing

9:30 Review/Adoption of Agenda Ivan Petiteville

9:35 Report from SIT Meeting Ivan Petiteville

10:25 User Vice Chair Report Liu Chuang

10:45 Break

11:15 Archive Task Team (ATT)

11:15 Introduction Kengo Aizawa

11:18 GCOS Action reply Kengo Aizawa

11:30 Digital Data Preservation or Recovery Stuart Doescher

USGS LACS Status

11:40 Cost Estimation Tool Update Kathy Fontaine

12:05 The IDSC concept for long-term Bernd Ritschel

sustainability of geosciences data and information

12:45 Lunch

13:45 WGISS Information Infrastructure Task Team (WITT)

13:45 WITT Team Summary Stuart Doescher

14:00 Project and Applications Subgroup

14:00 P&A Introduction Pakorn Apaphant

Kathy Fontaine

14:10 WTF Core Test Site Lyn Oleson

14:20 USGS report Lyn Oleson

14:25 ESA Cal/Val Portal Demo Carsten Brockmann

14:55 Discussion All

15:10 WTF-CEOP Satoko Miura

15:10 Overall Status Satoko Miura

15:25 CEOP status Satoko Miura on behalf of

Prof. Koike

15:45 Break

16:15 Project and Applications Subgroup (Continued)

16:15 WTF-CEOP (continued)

16:15 JAXA Prototype System Status Satoko Miura

16:25 NASA Satellite Data Server Status and Demonstration Yonsook Enloe

16:55 Q&A, Discussion All

17:05 Natural Disaster Management Project Pakorn Apaphant

17:05 Overall status Pakorn Apaphant

17:10 ASIAES system Pakorn Apaphant

17:30 Adjourn

Icebreaker Social at DLR 17:45.

Bus departs DLR 19:15.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Bus departs hotels 8:00, arrives at DLR 8:30.

8:45 Convene

8:45 Project and Applications Subgroup (Continued)

8:45 EO Data Portal Task Team Wyn Cudlip

Review of Task Team Achievements and Plan for Closure

9:15 Global Data Sets Task Team Wyn Cudlip, Lorant Czaran

Global DEM update

9:45 Summary and Discussion Pakorn Apaphant

Kathy Fontaine

10:45 Break

11:15 Technology & Services Subgroup

11:15 Subgroup Introduction Liu Dingsheng, Natalia Kussul

11:20 GRID Task Team Guoqing Li

11:25 WAG-CNES study status Jean-Pierre Antikidis

on behalf of Paul Kopp

11:40 A project for Earth Observation based on WAG Jean-Pierre Antikidis

11:55 Chinese WAG activities Guoqing Li, Huang Zhenchun

12:10 Digital Forestry Gird in China Zhang Xu

12:25 TBD

12:45 Lunch

13:45 Technology & Services Subgroup

13:45 GRID Task Team (Continued)

13:45 CAT-1 activity report Natalia Kussul

14:05 ESA report Luigi Fusco, Guoqing Li

14:35 Sensor Web Task Team Terence van Zyl

14:35 Introduction Terence val Zyl

14:40 NASA Focus on Earth Science Sensor Web Technology K. Moe

15:00 Sensor Web for precision farming validation Luigi Fusco

within the Frascati Living Lab

15:20 Sensor Web: The perspective of OGC I. Simonis

15:40 Break

16:10 Technology & Services Subgroup (Continued)

16:10 Sensor Web Task Team (Continued)

16:10 Sensor Grid Application in Nature Reserve Monitoring Zhang Xu

16:30 OSCAR - A Trial Sensor Web Implementation Paul Martin

16:50 WGISS Session

16:50 WGISS 5-Year Plan Ivan Petiteville

17:25 CEOS Report Outreach Ivan Petiteville

17:30 Adjourn

Bus departs DLR 17:45.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Bus departs hotels 8:00, arrives at DLR 8:30.

8:45 Convene

8:45 Technology & Services Subgroup

8:45 ICS TT Jolyon Martin

9:15 IDN TT Tyler Stevens

9:15 GCMD/IDN Science User Working Group Wyn Cudlip

9:25 Review of Minutes and Action Items Tyler Stevens on behalf of

Arturo Restrepo

9:35 Update on Population and Usage Statistics Tyler Stevens on behalf of

Rosy Cordova

9:45 Development Plans for MD 9.8 and MD 10 Tyler Stevens on behalf of

Chris Gokey

10:00 GEOSS Activities and other Collaborations Tyler Stevens, Wyn Cudlip

10:15 Node Reports Bernd Ritschel, Others

Current Usage of CEOS Earth Observation Handbook Tyler Stevens on behalf of

Arturo Restrepo

10:25 Evolution of Controlled Vocabularies Tyler Stevens for

Lola Olsen, Scott Ritz

10:35 Re-emergence of the Interop and Communications Tyler Stevens on behalf of

Tom Northcutt

10:43 The CEOS IDN Newsletter Tyler Stevens on behalf of

Lola Olsen

10:45 Group Photo All

10:45 Break

11:15 Technology & Services Subgroup (continued)

11:15 Data Services Task Team Session Lyndon Oleson

11:15 An OGC Standards Driven Online Geodata Access for

DLR’s National Remote Sensing Data Library (NRSDL) Torsten Heinen

11:35 IDN Services - Past, Present, and Future Initiatives for the

Global Earth Science Community Tyler Stevens

11:50 ECHO Web Services Update Michael Burnett

12:05 Status of JAXA OGC Activities S. Kawahito

12:20 Review DSTT Goals and Objectives Lyndon Oleson

12:35 Technology & Services Subgroup Closing Dingsheng Liu

12:45 Lunch

13:30 Host Workshop

13:30 Welcome/Introduction Rolf Werninghaus

DLR Space Agency

13:35 The TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X Missions Jörg Herrmann, Infoterra GmbH

14:35 The EnMap Mission Timo Stuffler

Kayser-Threde GmbH

15:15 Break

15:30 Host Workshop (continued)

15:30 The RapidEye Mission Michael Oxfort, RapidEye AG

16:10 The DLR Multi-Mission Ground segment Erhard Diedrich, DLR

16:45 GMES Applications Exploiting the New Missions Gunter Schreier

17:20 Wrapup Gunter Schreier, DLR

17:30 Adjourn

Host Workshop Dinner

Bus departs DLR 17:45 direct to Dinner, return to the hotels at approximately 22:30.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Bus departs hotels 8:00, arrives at DLR 8:30.

8:45 Convene

8:45 WGISS Plenary

8:45 WGISS Liaison Reports

- ICSU Liu Chuang

- CODATA Liu Chuang

- CCSDS Wyn Cudlip

- ICSU/World Data Center Panel Lyndon Oleson (TBC)

- eGY Bernd/Kathy (TBC)

9:30 Future WGISS Meetings Martha Maiden

9:45 Report to CEOS Plenary (November 2007) Ivan Petiteville

10:45 Break

11:15 WGISS-GEO Discussions

11:15 DA-07-01 Virtual Constellations & Related Topics Martha Maiden

11:20 Report on LSI VC Meeting and Progress J-P Antikidis

11:50 VC System Engineering Office, an Introduction Steve Sandford (CEOS SEO)

12:15 Mid-Decadal Global Land Dataset Garik Gutman (Invited Speaker)

12:45 Lunch

13:45 WGISS-GEO Discussions (continued)

13:45 DA-07-01 VCs & Related Topics (continued) Martha Maiden

13:45 Task AG-07-03 Request for WGISS Participation Martha Maiden

14:00 Session Wrap-up Martha Maiden

14:20 Reports on WGISS Contributions to the GEO 2007-2009 Work Plan

(All presentations must be loaded to one computer to enable short report transitions.)

14:20 CL-06-02, AR-07-01, AR-07-02 Ivan Petiteville

13:30 GCOS actions for WGISS Wrap-up Kengo Aizawa

14:35 CL-06-05, EC-07,01 Tyler

14:45 WA-06-05, WA-07-01, WA-07-02 Satoko Miura

14:55 DA-06-04 Kathy Fontaine

15:00 WA-06-07 Liu Chuang

15:10 DA-07-06 Ken McDonald

15:15 DA-06-01, DA-06-09 Martha Maiden on behalf of

Dave Clark, Paul Kopp

15:30 DA-07-04 Sensor Web Enablement Wrap-up Terence Van Zyl

15:45 Break

16:15 WGISS-GEO Discussions (continued)

16:15 CEOS-GEO Implementation Steering Group Ivan/Ken

16:30 UK Support for GEO Wyn Cudlip

17:00 Conclusions and Way Forward Martha Maiden and All

17:30 Adjourn

Bus departs DLR 17:45.

Friday, October 19, 2007

Bus departs hotels 8:00, arrives at DLR 8:30.

8:45 Convene

8:45 WGISS Plenary (Continued)

8:45 Closing Ceremony

9:00 Agency and Representative Reports

- DLR Bernhard Buckl

- NASA Kathy Fontaine

- GSDI Association Gabor Remetey-Fülöpp

- JAXA Satoko Miura

- NRSCC Dingsheng Liu

- GISTDA Pakorn Apaphant

- NOAA Ken McDonald

- USGS Lyn Oleson

- GFZ Bernd Ritschel

10:45 Break

11:15 Action Item Review George Dyke

11:45 WGISS Transition: Chair, Subgroup and Task Teams Ivan Petiteville

12:40 Close WGISS Plenary

12:45 Lunch (DLR Cafeteria closes at 13:00)

Bus departs DLR 14:00.