WGCapD activities and future plans

Jane Olwoch, SANSA

SIT-30 Agenda Item # 11

30th CEOS SIT Meeting

CNES Headquarters, Paris, France

31st March – 1st April 2015

Committee on Earth Observation Satellites

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Presentation Outline

• Progress of WGCapD’s activities in 2015-2017 • Activity Highlights• WGCapD’s role in the CEOS Long–term Strategy (2015-

2017)• WGCapD Leadership Post-2015

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Activity Progress/Status Future Activity

CB-1: Conduct a series of Digital Elevation Model (DEM) regional workshops

First workshop completed (March 2015)

Workshop in Mexico to follow (May 2015) with possible other workshops to be held in Asia and West Africa

CB-2: Provide practical EO education for students and teachers

DLR,ESA and SANSA already involved in School labs at conferences (ESA, DLR, UKSA) and FUNDISA resources (SANSA)

Proposal between SANSA, DLR, ESA to combine forces in future is being discussed.Does CEOS see its role in K12 Education and support implementation of this project – Material could be made available to developing Countries

WGCapD Summary of Activities 2015-2017 (proposed revision, pending review )

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Activity Progress/Status Future Activity

CB-3: Develop a long term Capacity Building Strategy

First discussions took part during Working Group Annual Meeting

To be presented prior to SIT 31

CB-4: Collaborate with GEO in the development and implementation of the GEOCAB Portal

CEOS Capacity Activities have been added

Sustainability of the Portal still not defined but there are internal discussions in WGCapD and GEO.A possibility of building our own portal in partnership with WGISS was discussed

CB-5: Implement the TanDEM-X Edu Project

Not started due to unavailability of Data

DLR /SANSA are still interested but need to wait until the required data is processed to be utilized for CB activities

CB-6: Capacity Building for Disaster Management - Pilot Course

INPE and ISRO in charge Webinar Series: from 7 April to 26 May

There is already an announcement on CEOS Website

WGCapD Summary of Activities 2015-2017 (cont.)

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Activity Progress/Status Future Activity

CB-7: Release of web-based newsletters and other outreach materials

Not started WGCapD will significantly increase its communication through key channels such as its newsletter and list-serves, including promotion of appropriate material and activity of other CEOS Entities.

CB-8: Web based archiving and distribution of CEOS EO webinars

Not started A series of webinars will be developed, drawing on presentations and materials already under development by other CEOS Entities. These webinars will be made easily available through the CEOS website

CB-9: Strengthening AfriGEOSS Communicating with GEO and ID-02. Work with GEO to determine the capacity building activities necessary to strengthen AfriGEOSS, as well as, assist in establishing the capacity building component of AfriGEOSS itself.

WGCapD Summary of Activities 2015-2017 (cont.)

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Present DLR, NASA, ESA, USGS, INPE, NOAA, UNOOSA, RCMRD, and SANSA.

ISRO, GEO, VLab (WMO-CGMS), SWF, NASA-SEO, NOAA, CRECTEALC (Mexico) and IRD attended virtually

4th WGCapD Annual Meeting , Pretoria 18-20 March, 2015

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SRTM Workshop , Pretoria 23 -27 March, 2015

• 22 participants, • 18 from outside South

Africa.• Sponsors are SWF, GEO,

and UNOOSA

Thanks to Patrick O’Brien (NOAA), Phila Sibandze (SANSA), and the CEOS Team

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WGCapD & WGDisasters Distance Education CourseWebinar Series on Remote Sensing Technology for Disaster Management

(INPE and ISRO)http://ceos.org/meetings/wgcapd-distance-education-2015/

Comprehensive series of 8 introductory webinars that address the use of remote sens-ing technology for DM. What makes this course unique?

• Offered free of charge• Provides access to expertise from space agencies

around the world• Links participants to a global network of experts and

policymakers• Creates awareness about CEOS and the International

Charter for Space and Major Disasters • Provides access to datasets and useful tools available

from CEOS Members• Builds skills on Disaster Management (DM)

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Details: Webinar Series on Remote Sensing Technology for Disaster Management

• Schedule: April 7 — May 26, 2015 (1 webinar per week, always on Tuesdays from 13:00-14:00 UTC)

• Course Team: INPE, ISRO, CEOS CEO, CEOS SEO, CSA, ESA, University of Waterloo/International Space University, NASA, SANSA, UNOOSA, USGS

• Audience: Disaster Management practitioners with an interest in geospatial technology

• Registrations: 30 March 2015: 120 registrations first 95 were accepted

• All webinars recordings and learning materials will be available on the Internet after the course is finished (June 2015)

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WGCapD Long term Strategy (progress to date)

Draft Goals include:

• Increase access to data, products, and tools and ability to use them;

• Build awareness of new mission datasets, and how to use them within the context of existing datasets;

• Increase the capacity of the WGs/VCs to provide their own capacity building (vs WGCapD doing it for them); and

• Improve EO communications and coordination between Agency and WGs/VCs/CapD capacity building and education activities as well as related international activities.

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WGCapD Long term Strategy (progress to date)

Agreed on outcomes we want to achieve:

• Understand end users’ capacity building needs (in collaboration with partners e.g. GEO and UNOOSA

• Ensuring end users have access to data and products/tools, and apps development toolkits they need

• Co-development of applications through projects• Training methodologies established and proven, and disseminated for wide use

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WGCapD Long term Strategy (progress to date)

Mapping Activities to Goals.. In process

Full CEOS WGCapD Long-term strategy (SIT 31)

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WGCapD Leadership Post 2015

• Eric Wood (USGS) will complete his tenure as WGCapD Chair at the 29th CEOS Plenary

• Jane Olwoch (SANSA), present Vice Chair, will assume the role of Chair at that time• Nominations are now officially open for the next Vice Chair• We thank those members that have already expressed an interest

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Acknowledgements

• Eric Wood• Hilcea Ferreira• Nancy Searby

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Thank you!

Jane Olwoch and Eric Wood

jolwoch@sansa.org.zawoodec@usgs.gov