26th CEOS Plenary

Welcome and Opening Remarks:

• Introduction (Kiran Kumar)
• Inaugural address (K Radhakrishnan, Chairman, ISRO)

Organisational and Membership Matters (Rajeev Jaiswal, ISRO):

• Earth System Science Organization (ESSO)/Ministry of Earth Science (MoES) – India [Presentation]

Coordination of Open Action Items from 25th Plenary (Rajeev Jaiswal, ISRO) 

Discussion of actions from the 25th  Plenary [Document]

Report from the Chair:  Accomplishments and Challenges (Kiran Kumar, ISRO)

Review of the progress of CEOS against the Chair’s objectives for 2012 [Presentation]

CEOS Executive Officer Report (Timothy Stryker, USGS)

Report on Executive Officer’s 2012 accomplishments and perspectives for the future [Presentation]

CSSII Overview (Michael Freilich, NASA)

Review of 2012 CSSII Activities (Pat Jacobberger-Jellison, NASA) [Presentation]

Reports from the Three CSSII Working Committees

• Defining Responsibility for CEOS Essential Business and Core Activities (Paul Counet, EUMETSAT and Kerry Sawyer, NOAA) [Presentation]
• CEOS Decision-making Process (Steven Hosford, CNES and Timothy Stryker) [Presentation]
• Common Understanding of Major Meetings (Ivan Petiteville, ESA and Timothy Stryker) [Presentation]

Concluding Discussion Time (Moderated by Mike Freilich), including:

• Actions
• Way forward

Progress on Key GEO Priorities (Barbara Ryan, GEO Secretariat)

GEO’s current/future issues/challenges [Presentation]

• CEOS recommendations to the GEO Post-2015
• Report of the GEO Post-2015 WG

Annual Report on CEOS Implementation of the GEOSS Space Segment (Mike Freilich)  [Presentation]

• 2012 accomplishments and lessons learned 
• CEOS involvement in the 2012-2015 GEO Work Plan Tasks and Components
• Virtual Constellation Progress on Key CEOS Priorities 
• LSI Written Report

Concluding Discussion Time (Moderated by Tim Stryker), including:

• Actions
• CEOS-GEO relationship and Way forward [Presentation]

CEOS Strategy for Carbon Observations from Space (Osamu Ochiai, JAXA)

Carbon strategy report status- Way forward and Challenges [Presentation]

Forest Carbon Tracking and Global Forest Observation Initiative (GFOI) (Stephen Briggs, GFOI TF, Per Erik Skrovseth, NSC & Stephen Ward, DCCEE)

GFOI Implementation Plan overview and CEOS suppor [Presentation] [Technical Report]

Space Data Coordination ad hoc Group (SDCG) (Stephen Ward, DCCEE & Ake Rosenqvist, NSC)

• Baseline Global Data acquisition strategy for GFOI
• Way Forward [Presentation]

CEOS Contribution to Disaster Risk Management

Report of the CEOS ad hoc Group on Disaster Risk Management and Discussion of Next Steps (Ivan Petiteville, ESA) [Presentation] [Document]

Implementation of CEOS Support to Geohazards Supersites and Natural Laboratories (Klaus Schmidt, DLR) [Presentation]

• Selection process for GEO Geohazard Supersites
• CEOS support to the Permanent Supersite Hawaii

CEOS Support to Food Security: Research and Monitoring

GEOGLAM and what GEO desires of CEOS (Pascal Kosuth, Cemagref) [Presentation]

Polar Ecosystems/Polar Space Task Group Report (Steven Hosford, CNES)

• Terms of Reference
• Presentation
• Recommendations

Concluding Discussion Time (Moderated by Tim Stryker) [Presentation]

• CEOS support to key GEO initiatives discussion- Approval of the following CEOS ad hoc groups to continue for 2013, in accordance with CEOS ToR:
  • Ad hoc Group on Disaster Risk Management [Presentation]
  • Ad hoc Group on Space Data Coordination
  • Ad hoc Group on GEOGLAM
  • CEOS Carbon Task Force

• Presentation
• Report

• Presentation
• Terms of Reference

Developments within WCRP (Ghassem Asrar, WCRP)

Role of Observations & Research in Climate Services

Concluding Discussion Time (Moderated by Kerry Sawyer), [Presentation] including:

• Future directions for the Climate Architecture
• Roles for VCs and WGClimate in the coordination of ECV development
• UNFCCC engagement and CEOS GCOS IP response
• Recent developments with the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) and potential CEOS engagement  [Presentation]

WGISS Report and Actions (Satoko Miura, JAXA)

2012 accomplishments, current and future challenges, and requested commitments from CEOS members to further the objectives of WGISS

• Presentation
• Document

WGCapD Report and Actions (Hilcéa Ferreira, INPE)

2012 accomplishments, current and future challenges, data democracy and requested commitments from CEOS members to further the objectives of WGCapD [Presentation]

WGCV Report and Actions (Greg Stensaas, USGS)

2012 accomplishments, current and future challenges, and requested commitments from CEOS members to further the objectives of WGCV

Handover of WGCV Chair from USGS to CSA [Presentation]

CEOS Systems Engineering Office Report (Brian Killough, NASA) [Presentation]

CEOS MIM Database and EO Handbook (Ivan Petiteville, ESA)

Briefing on updated tools for CEOS coordination and outreach [Presentation]

CEOS engagement for GEO and UNFCCC meetings in late 2012 (Rajeev Jaiswal)

GEO-IX: engagement and readiness

COP-18: engagement and readiness

[Presentation]

Calendar October 2012 – November 2013 (Kerry Sawyer)

Discussion of CEOS-level engagement at key stakeholder meetings [Presentation]

Reports from CEOS Agencies on New/Emerging Initiatives with Potential for CEOS Cooperation (approx. 10 minutes each)

• ESCAP efforts for disaster risk reduction (ESCAP) [Presentation] [Document]
• EUMETSAT (status on our newly launched MSG-3 and Metop-B satellites) [Presentation]
• Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) (Per Erik Skrovseth) [Presentation]
• ISRO (Recent progress in EO activities) (PG Diwakar) [Presentation]
• JAXA (Shizuo Yamamoto) [Presentation]
• NASA (New/Emerging Initiatives with Potential for CEOS Cooperation) [Presentation]
• NSMC/CMA (Jinlong Fan) 
• NOAA (Mary Kicza) [Presentation]
• SANSA [Presentation] 
• USGS (Economic benefit of open availability of Landsat data) [Presentation]
• Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) [Presentation]
• German Space Agency (DLR) [Presentation]
• Norwegian Space Centre (NSC) [Presentation]
• ASI [Presentation]
• CAS [Presentation]

CEOS Priorities and outcomes for 2013 (CSA)

Overview of next year’s objectives for CEOS- Vision and Goals of the incoming Chair [Presentation]

Future CEOS & SIT Chairmanships 2013-2015 (CEOS Chair)

Chair Handover & closing remarks