WGISS-55

Event Dates: April 18th - 20th, 2023

The 55th Meeting of the Working Group on Information Systems and Services

Location: Córdoba, Argentina

Hosted by: Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE)

Dates: April 18-20, 2023 

Presentation documents will be linked to each agenda item.

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Information for In-person Participants

Agenda

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Tuesday, April 18, 2023
WGISS PLENARY, Part 1
9:00	Welcome from CONAE	Raúl Kulichevsky (CONAE)
9:15	Logistics	Homero Lozza (CONAE)
9:20	Opening Remarks; Introductions, including remote participants	Makoto Natsuisaka (JAXA)
9:30	WGISS Chair Report	Makoto Natsuisaka (JAXA)
9:45	CEOS Executive Officer Report	Marie-Claire Greening (CEO)
10:00	Discussion of CEOS Work Plan Deliverables for WGISS	All
10:15	Break
CEOS Interoperability Framework
10:30	Session Objectives	Makoto Natsuisaka (JAXA)
10:40	Introduction to the CEOS Interoperability Framework	Tom Sohre (USGS)
11:00	Professional Open-Source Framework for Earth System Digital Twins and Applications	Thomas Huang (JPL for NASA)
11:40	CEOS Systems Engineering Office Cloud Use Strategy	David Borges (NASA)
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Discussion on the Vision, Outcomes, Actions, Next Steps
Technology Exploration
14:00	Session Objectives	Yosuke Ikehata (JAXA)
	Jupyter Notebooks
14:10	Status of Jupyter Notebooks Best Practice	Esther Conway(UKRI/STFC)
14:20	Discussion	All
	AI/ML
14:25	Proposal for AI/ML Survey in WGISS	Yosuke Ikehata (JAXA)
14:50	Break
15:10	NOAA Steps Toward the Geoverse	Ryan Berkheimer (NOAA)*
15:35	Plymouth Marine Laboratory Work	David Moffat(PML)*
16:00	MLHub and AI/ML in CMR	Valerie Dixon (NASA), Michael Morahan (NASA)
	Federation
16:25	STAC Activity	Yves Coene (Spacebel for ESA)
16:40	Discussion	All
16:50	Outcomes, Actions, Next Steps	Yosuke Ikehata(JAXA)
17:00	Adjourn
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
WGISS-WGDisasters Joint Symposium
9:00	Introduction of joint session and round table introductions (including remote)	Hélène de Boissezon (CNES)
9:10	Introduction to CONAE	Laura Frulla (CONAE)
9:25	Overview of WGISS Activities	Makoto Natsuisaka (JAXA)
9:40	Overview of WGDisasters Activities	Hélène de Boissezon (CNES)
9:55	Presentation of WGISS AI/ML White Paper	Yosuke Ikehata (JAXA)
10:10	Presentation of WG Disasters Planned Use Case on ML and the Wildfire Sector	Alan Cantin (NRCan),David Borges (NASA)
10:20	Break
10:35	General Discussion Around Use of ML for EO Analysis and Suggestions for Possible Joint Activity	All
11:00	Service Discovery Best Practice Activity	Yves Coene (Spacebel for ESA)
11:15	Use of EAIL in Flood Pilot and Other Possible Synergies	Marcelo Uriburu (CONAE)
11:25	General Discussion and Joint Session Wrap-up	All
11:35	Agency Presentations (3 to 5 minutes each)	Interested agencies
	USGS Emergency Operations Activities	Tom Sohre (USGS)
	ROSCOSMOS	Andrey Kuklin (ROSCOSMOS)
	ASI	Antonio Montuori (ASI)
12:00	Lunch
Data DISCOVERY and ACCESS
13:10	Session Objectives	Damiano Guerrucci (ESA)*
13:20	Data Access Authorisation – Toward Federated Access
	EGI (OpenEO) – Federated Authorisation	Valeria Ardizzone (EGI for ESA)*
	NASA – Multifactor Authorisation	Valerie Dixon (NASA)*
14:00	GEO-ZARR WG led by NASA	Christophe Noel (Spacebel for ESA)*
14:20	ISO TC211	Liping Di (NASA)*
14:35	IDN and CWIC Update	Michael Morahan (NASA)
14:50	FedEO Update	Yves Coene (Spacebel for ESA)
15:00	Break
15:20	Metrics Best Practice on Cloud (NASA Implementation)	Doug Newman (NASA), Min Wong (NASA)
15:40	Service Discovery: OSS Tools Metadata Ingestion Use Cases – FedEO/ IDN	Yves Coene (Spacebel for ESA), Michael Morahan (NASA)
16:00	Outcomes, Actions, Next Steps	Damiano Guerrucci (ESA)*
Agency and Liaison Reports
16:30	ESA	Mirko Albani (ESA)
16:40	NOAA	Ken Casey (NOAA)
16:50	UKSA	Esther Conway (UKSA)
17:00	Adjourn
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Agency and Liaison Reports, continued
9:00	ISRO	Sai Kalpana Tanguturu (ISRO)*
Data PRESERVATION and STEWARDSHIP
9:10	Session Objectives	Mirko Albani (ESA)
9:20	Archive Technologies Evolution White Paper	Daniele Iozzino (RHEA for ESA)*
9:40	DSIG Best Practices Refreshment	Iolanda Maggio (RHEA for ESA)
10:10	Data Publication, Preservation and Knowledge Hub	Liu Chuang (NRSCC)
10:25	Break
10:40	Copernicus Sentinels Ground Segment Architecture	Razvan Cosac (ESA)*
11:05	Session on AVHRR Data Archives
	AVHRR Data: European Coverage	Mirko Albani (ESA), S. Wunderle (UniBern)*
	AVHRR Data: North American Coverage	Ken Casey (NOAA)
	AVHRR Data Recovery Project	Mirko Albani (ESA)
12:00	Lunch
Data PRESERVATION and STEWARDSHIP, continued
13:00	Introduction of DOIs to the JAXA G-Portal Products	Yosuke Ikehata (JAXA)
13:10	Data Replicas (Authenticity and Integrity) in the Cloud Use Case	Mirko Albani (ESA)
13:30	Authenticating Data Replicas	Doug Newman (NASA), Michael Morahan (NASA)
13:45	Outcomes, Actions, Next Steps	Mirko Albani (ESA)
WGISS PLENARY, Part 2
14:00	WGISS Strategic and Interoperability Framework Discussion	Makoto Natsuisaka (JAXA)
15:00	Break
15:20	Future Meetings	Tom Sohre (USGS)
15:30	WGISS Vice Chair Solicitation, and Organizational Matters	Makoto Natsuisaka (JAXA)
15:45	Summary of Meeting Outcomes, Next Steps	Tom Sohre (USGS)
16:30	Review of WGISS Actions and Meeting Feedback	Michelle Piepgrass (JAXA)
16:45	Concluding Discussion and Remarks	Makoto Natsuisaka (JAXA)
17:00	Adjourn