CEOS Development Environment

WGCapD-9

Event Dates: March 10th - 12th, 2020

The 9th Meeting of the Working Group on Capacity Building & Data Democracy

The WGCapD invites you to participate in the 9th Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Capacity Building and Data Democracy, which will now be held virtually March 10-12th. 

Hosted by: NASA

Report: Annual Meeting Final Report (June 2020)

Logistics:

  • Dates: March 10-12th 
  • Theme: “Identifying Opportunities for Synergies & Innovation”
  • Registration Deadline: Registration closed March 9th 
  • Virtual attendance information [PDF]

Read Ahead Documents

Agenda: v.6 Provisional Agenda PDF (6.0, Mar 9, 2020), All Times Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

  Day 1: Tuesday March 10th 

  08:00 – 08:30 EDT (12:00 – 12:30 UTC)

WGCapD-9 Opening

 
 08:00 – 08:30  

Welcome

WGCapD-9 Agenda Overview & Week-at-a-glance

Nancy Searby, NASA & Pham Thi Mai Thy, VNSC

Erin Martin, Faciliator

   

Introductions

All

  08:30 – 09:45 EDT

Session 1: Spotlight on Innovation

 
08:30 – 08:35 1.1 Update on VLab innovation plans [PDF] Luciane Veeck, VLab
08:35 – 08:40 1.2 IIRS-ISRO E-learning and outreach program [PDF] Prakash Chauhan, ISRO
08:40 – 08:45 1.3 Landsat Collection 2: science enhancements and improvements [PPT] Chris Barnes, USGS
08:45 – 08:50 1.4 Canadian-European MOOC on radar remote sensing education [PPT] Janin Huard, CSA
08:50 – 08:55 1.5 HyperEDU and EnMAP Toolbox [PPT] Michael Bock, DLR
08:55 – 09:00 1.6 ESA innovative tools for EO education and training [PPT] Francesco Sarti, ESA
09:00 – 09:05 1.7 SERVIR capacity building approach [PPT] Dan Irwin, NASA
09:05 – 09:10 1.8 EO data innovation challenge [PPT] Dan Matsapola, SANSA
09:10 – 09:15 1.9 EO College – State of the art and future developments [PPT] Robert Eckhardt, Univ of Jena
  09:15 – 09:45   Discussion  All
  09:45 – 10:00   BREAK: 15 Minute Leg Stretch  

  10:00 – 11:15 EDT

Session 2: Spotlight on Partnerships

 
10:00 – 10:05 2.1 Gender diversity and competency analysis in learning geospatial technology and applications [PDF] Senthil Kumar, UN CSSTEAP
10:05 – 10:10 2.2 ESA partnerships for EO education, training and CB [PPT] Francesco Sarti, ESA
10:10 – 10:15 2.3 Tools to enable UN Member States at national and local level to use Earth observations to help deliver SDG 11 and the New Urban Agenda [PPT] Argie Kavvada, NASA
10:15 – 10:20 2.5 USGS approach to Analysis Ready Data products [PPT] Chris Barnes, USGS
10:20 – 10:25 2.6 Progress on the Space Capacity Development Advisory Board [PPT] Nancy Searby, NASA
10:25 – 10:30 2.7 IEEE capacity building activities [PPT] Paul Rosen, NASA
  10:30 – 11:15   Discussion All
  SESSION BREAK: Meeting reconvenes at 23:00

  23:00 – 24:00 EDT

Session 3: Regional Highlight – Asia & Oceania

 
  23:00 – 23:05   Welcome & Introductions Nancy Searby, NASA & Erin Martin, Facilitator
23:05 – 23:10 3.0 Overview of WGCapD activities in Asia & Oceania [PPT] Pham Thi Mai Thy, VNSC
23:10 – 23:15 3.1 Insights on VNSC capacity building activities [PPT] Pham Thi Mai Thy, VNSC
23:15 – 23:20 3.2 ISRO capacity building activities in Asia [PDF] S.P. Aggarwal, ISRO
23:20 – 23:25 3.3 Update on AOGEO capacity building activities [PDF] Xiang ZHOU, AOGEO
23:25 – 23:30 3.4 NASA work in Asia [PPT] Dan Irwin, NASA
23:30 – 23:35 3.5 DLR activities in Asia [PPT] Michael Bock, DLR
23:35 – 23:40 3.6 ESA partnership with China for advanced scientific EO training-Dragon Programme [PPT] Amalia Castro Gomez, ESA
23:40 – 23:45 3.7 Overview of CNES activities in Viet Nam [PPT] Linda Tomasini, CNES
  23:45 – 24:00   Discussion All
  END OF DAY 1

  Day 2: Wednesday March 11th 

  08:00 – 09:30 EDT

Session 4: Expanding Our Work on Data Democracy

 
  08:00 – 08:10   Welcome & Introductions Nancy Searby, NASA & Erin Martin, Facilitaor
08:10 – 08:15 4.1 SEO overview on data democracy initiatives [PPT] Brian Killough, NASA
08:15 – 08:20 4.2 ESA contribution to EO data democracy: data access and availability, future perspectives [PPT] Francesco Sarti, ESA
08:20 – 08:25 4.3 DLR EO Mission data and value-added data products [PPT] Michael Bock, DLR
08:25 – 08:30 4.4 SAR training for Indigenous communities and first nations [PPT] Janin Huard, CSA and Cindy Schmidt, NASA
08:30 – 08:35 4.5 NISAR mission plans for early adopters and training associated with SAR [PPT] Paul Rosen, NASA
08:35 – 08:40 4.6 ISRO initiative in data democracy for capacity building [PDF] S.P. Aggarwal, ISRO
08:40 – 08:45 4.7 Landsat archive cloud access/data policy [PPT] Chris Barnes, USGS
08:45 – 08:40 4.8 NASA perspective on data access [PPT] Kent Ross, NASA
08:40 – 08:45 4.9 Making our work more discoverable and consistent [PPT] Lauren Childs-Gleason, NASA
  08:45 – 09:30   Discussion  All

  09:30 – 10:15 EDT

Session 5a: Coordinating & Identifying Our Synergies w/Others

 
  09:30 – 10:15   Synergies w/CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS) [PPT– WGCapD Inputs] [PPT – WGISS Inputs] All
  10:15 – 10:30   BREAK: 15 Minute Leg Stretch  

  10:30 – 11:30 EDT

Session 6: Regional Highlight – Africa

 
  10:30 – 10:35   Welcome & Introductions  Nancy Searby, NASA & Erin Martin, Facilitator
10:35 – 10:40 6.0 Overview of WGCapD Activities in Africa [PPT] Nancy Searby, NASA
10:40 – 10:45 6.1 SANSA capacity building activities [PPT] Dan Matsapola, SANSA
10:45 – 10:50 6.2 AfriGEO engagement on capacity building [PPT] Nale Mudau, SANSA
10:50 – 10:55 6.3 KSA experience with capacity building [PPT] Byron Anangwe, KSA
10:55 – 11:00 6.4 Agency update on capacity building [PPT – Condensed] [PDF – Full] Matthew Adepoju, NASRDA
11:00 – 11:05 6.5 ESA EO capacity building in Africa [PPT] Francesco Sarti, ESA
11:05 – 11:10 6.6 Snapshot of DLR and other German activities in Africa [PPT] Michael Bock, DLR
11:10 – 11:15 6.7 NASA capacity building activities in Africa [PPT] Betzy Hernandez, NASA
  11:15 – 11:30   Discussion All

  11:30 – 12:30 EDT

Session 7: Regional Highlight – Americas

 
  11:30 – 11:35   Welcome & Introductions  Nancy Searby, NASA & Erin Martin, Facilitator
11:35 – 11:40 7.0 Overview of WGCapD Activities in Americas [PPT] Christine Mataya, NASA
11:40 – 11:45 7.1 Current and future CRECTEALC work in Latin America and the Caribbean [PPT] Sergio Camacho, CRECTEALC
11:45 – 11:50 7.2 Snapshot of INPE capacity building [PPT] Alessandra Gomes, INPE
11:50 – 11:55 7.3 Insights on AmeriGEO capacity building [PPT] Albert DeGarmo, AmeriGEO
11:55 – 12:00 7.4 ESA experience for EO capacity building in Latin America [PPT] Francesco Sarti, ESA
12:00 – 12:05 7.5 Update on capacity building activities [PDF] Chris Barnes, USGS
12:05 – 12:10 7.6 NASA capacity building activities in the Americas [PPT] Betzy Hernandez, NASA
  12:10 – 12:30   Discussion All
  END OF DAY 2

  Day 3: Thursday March 12th

  08:00 – 09:30 EDT

Session 8: Applying Learning to Future Activities

 
  08:00 – 08:10   Welcome & Introductions Nancy Searby, NASA & Erin Martin, Facilitator
  08:10 – 09:30   WGCapD Deliverables Discussion: Existing & New [PPT] All

  09:30 – 10:45 EDT

Session 5b: Coordinating & Identifying Our Synergies w/Others 

 
09:30 – 10:10   Synergies w/CEOS Working Group on Disasters (WGDisasters) [PPT – WGCapD] [PPT – WGDisasters] All 
10:10 – 10:45   Synergies w/CEOS Systems Engineering Office (SEO) [PPT] All
  10:45 – 11:00   BREAK: 15 Minute Leg Stretch  

  11:00 – 12:00 EDT

Session 9: Regional Highlight – Europe

 
  11:00 – 11:05   Welcome & Introductions Nancy Searby, NASA & Erin Martin, Facilitator
11:05 – 11:10 9.0 Overview of WGCapD Activities in Europe [PPT] Lauren Childs-Gleason, NASA
11:10 – 11:15 9.1 ESA EO capacity building and training in Europe [PPT] Francesco Sarti, ESA
11:15 – 11:20 9.2 Capacity development on behalf of Copernicus and the European Commission [PPT] Astrid-Christina Koch, EC
11:20 – 11:25 9.3 Framework Partner Agreement on Copernicus User Uptake [PPT] Michael Bock, DLR
11:25 – 11:30 9.4 Overview of capacity building activities [PPT] Linda Tomasini, CNES
11:30 – 11:35 9.5 Update on ESA Academy [PPT] Joost Vanreusel, ESA
  11:35 – 12:00   Discussion All

  12:00 – 13:15 EDT

Session 5c: Coordinating & Identifying Synergies w/Others

 
  12:00 – 12:30   5c. Synergies w/CEOS Sustainable Development Goals Ad Hoc Team [PPT] All
12:45 – 13:15   5c. Synergies w/CEOS Land Surface Imaging Virtual Constellation [PPT] All

  13:15  EDT 

Session 10: Wrap-Up and Close of Meeting