SIT-35
The 35th Meeting of the CEOS Strategic Implementation Team (SIT-35) – Virtual Only
During the 2020-2021 SIT Chair Term, the CSIRO/GA SIT Chair is focussing on the original vision for SIT, aiming to foster Principal-level discussion and decision making to bring resources to address the significant coordination challenges presented by the harmonisation of observing systems across space agencies. The approach to be taken is one of heightened attention on fewer priorities that reflect the major thrusts across civil EO programmes, priority needs identified during the previous SIT Chair term, recent CEOS Chair priorities, and requests from CEOS partners such as GEO and GCOS. A key goal of SIT-35 will be to secure in-principle support from CEOS Principals for concrete activities to be scoped in the lead up to the SIT Tech Workshop, to be debated and refined in detail during the SIT TW, and then presented to all Principals at the Plenary.
SIT-35 will focus on strategic topics and discussion aimed at identifying resources to escalate, elevate, and expedite existing CEOS Work Plan activities that directly support these major thrusts. SIT-35 will also trial a new type of session – ‘Pitches’ – which seek to inspire new contributions by providing an opportunity to briefly present potential new activities that CEOS should be aware of, or may be able to make a significant contribution to. SIT-35 will also include side meetings and a session to address the necessary on-going business of running CEOS. This will be bookended later in the year by the SIT Technical Workshop, which will focus on more detailed working-level task coordination. In addition to its function as a forum for CEOS Plenary preparations, it is expected that the Technical Workshop will provide opportunities for deeper dives into aspects of the CEOS Work Plan and priority tasks that would benefit most from face-to-face discussion.
During 2019 as SIT Vice-Chair, the team has listened across all CEOS meetings, as well as in multilateral and bi-lateral discussions with Principals, Agencies, and Working Team members to formulate priorities. These were presented at the 2019 Technical Workshop and 2019 CEOS Plenary, including during dedicated side meetings. The outcomes of this process can be found in the Plenary Presentation, with a summary of the priority areas below: CSIRO/GA SIT Chair 2020-2021 Prospectus.
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SIT-35 Virtual Only: Agenda Day 1 – Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
Note: All times are ‘elapsed time’, with 00:00 being the start of the meeting on a particular day, 02:00 being two hours into the meeting etc. All participants must be connected 15 minutes before the start of the agenda. Meeting start tImes as follows:
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US East |
Rome |
Delhi |
Tokyo |
Canberra |
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07:00 – 11:00 |
12:00 – 16:00 |
16:30 – 20:30 |
20:00 – 24:00 |
22:00 – 02:00 |
Session 1: Opening; COASTS; SDGs; SEO Report |
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00:00 – 00:20 20min |
1.1 Welcome and Introductions (A Held, A Lewis, SIT Co-Chairs) Information [ Presentation ]
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00:20 – 00:55 35min |
1.2 CEOS COAST Study Team Update (P DiGiacomo, COAST Study Team) Discussion
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00:55 – 01:45 50min |
1.3 Sustainable Development Goals (A Held, SIT Co-Chair) Discussion
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01:45 – 02:00 15min |
1.4 SEO Report (B Killough, CEOS SEO) [ Presentation ] Information
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02:00 – 02:20 |
Break and “CEOS SIT-35 Selfies”** |
Session 2: Climate, Carbon and Biomass; External Requests |
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02:20 – 03:50 1h30min |
2.1 Climate, Carbon and Biomass (A Held, SIT Co-Chair) Information, Discussion [ Presentation ]
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03:50 – 04:00 10min |
2.2 CEOS External Requests Process Paper (B Killough, CEOS SEO) Information, Discussion
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Close |
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SIT-35 Virtual Only: Day 2 – Thursday 26th March
Note: All times are ‘elapsed time’, with 00:00 being the start of the meeting on a particular day, 02:00 being two hours into the meeting etc. All participants must be connected 15 minutes before the start of the agenda. Meeting start tImes as follows:
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07:00 – 11:00 |
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16:30 – 20:30 |
20:00 – 24:00 |
22:00 – 02:00 |
Session 3: Analysis Ready Data; CEOS-GEO; Working Team Engagement |
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00:00 – 00:40 40min |
3.1 CEOS Analysis Ready Data (ARD): Beyond Land? Beyond Government? (A Lewis, SIT Co-Chair) Information, Discussion
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00:40 – 01:20 40min |
3.2 GEO Flagships/Initiatives and CEOS-GEO Coordination (A Lewis, SIT Co-Chair) Information, Discussion
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01:20 – 02:00 40m |
3.3 Working Team Status and Engagement (A Lewis, SIT Co-Chair) Information, Discussion Context: the CEOS Working Teams are the Virtual Constellations, Working Groups and Ad Hoc Teams. Building on the work of NOAA as 2018-2019 SIT Chair, the CSIRO/GA SIT Chair Team has been exploring new approaches to connecting with the Working Teams to ensure they feel valued and engaged, and that their forward work plans are informed by overarching CEOS strategy.
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02:00 – 02:20 |
Break |
Session 4: Work Plan; Chair Business; Closing |
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02:20 – 03:20 60m |
4.1 CEOS Work Plan Deep Dive (K Sawyer, CEO) Information, Discussion
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03:20 – 03:25 5min |
4.2 CEOS Plenary Session (CEOS Chair) Plenary Decision
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03:25 – 03:35 10min |
4.3 CEOS Chair Update (CEOS Chair) Information [ Presentation ]
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03:35 – 03:45 10min |
4.4 Any Other Business (A Held, A Lewis, SIT Co-Chairs)
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03:45 – 03:55 10min |
4.5 Recap of Decisions and Actions (A Held, A Lewis, SIT Co-Chairs) [ Document ] |
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03:55 – 04:00 5min |
4.6 SIT Chair Closing Remarks (A Held, A Lewis, SIT Co-Chairs)
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