WGISS-24

Preparatory meeting

Issue 1.1

Sunday Sep. 14, 2007

Meeting Agenda• Logistics – General issues

• Review of WGISS-24 agenda

• Main objectives of WGISS-24

Logistics – General issues

Logistics - General issues• Hotel Departure to DLR:

– All mornings from hotels to DLR:– 8:00, Hotel Andechser Hof– 8:05, Hotel Seehof– 8:10, Ammersee-Hotel– 8:15. Hotel Piushof

• Lunch breaks durations & locations– 1 hour every day (12:45 to 13:45) except on Wednesday (0:45) because of the

Host workshop (starts at 13:30)– Location: DLR (TBC by Bernhard)

• Coffee Breaks– 30 minutes that could be shortened to 15 minutes if needed

• No usage of Internet during:– Welcome speeches Monday morning and during the Workshop on Wednesday

afternoon …. And during GEO session !!

No usage of Internet during

• Welcome speeches Monday morning

• Workshop on Wednesday afternoon …

• GEO session on Thursday !!

WGISS-24 Agenda

Changes since Oct. 11 • (Monday) “CEOS IP” session removed as covered

in “Report from SIT meeting” • (Tuesday) “Techno & Services” session starts

earlier at 11:15. • (Tuesday) Duration of “Sensor Web” increased by

0.5 h• (Tuesday, end of afternoon) 2 topics added:

1. Update of “WGISS 5-year plan”2. Outreach: call for inputs to the WGISS report to

Plenary

Changes since Oct. 11 (cont’)• (Wednesday) Group photo before 1st coffee break• (Thursday) “Future WGISS meetings” duration

reduced. • “GEO session” start anticipated

Open Issues on Agenda (1/6)

• Monday:

1. List of attendees ( to be circulated George)

2. Propose to remove “CEOS IP” session as covered in “Report from SIT meeting”

Open Issues on Agenda (2/6)• Monday (cont’):

1. ATT Session: 12’ have been allocated to “GCOS Action reply” topic. Seems too little given the status of the action. To be discussed again at GEO session (agreed with Kengo)

2. “WTF Core Sites” session duration ? Any open issue still ?

3. Other issues (SG Chairs & Vice-Chairs) ?

Open Issues on Agenda (3/6)

• Tuesday:

1. 1.5 hours currently allocated to P&A still not detailed

2. Other issues (SG Chairs & Co-Chairs) ?

Open Issues on Agenda (4/6)• Wednesday:

1. Host Dinner organized by DLR – Bus departs DLR 17:45 direct to Dinner, return to the

hotels at approximately 22:30.– Dressing code ?

2. Other issues (SG Chairs & Co-Chairs) ?

Open Issues on Agenda (5/6)• Thursday:

1. Liaisons Reports presenters still missing for both– ICSU/World Data Center Panel– eGY

2. Future WGISS meetings: duration of 1 h 15 ‘ is too much

3. Other issues (SG Chairs & Co-Chairs) ?

Open Issues on Agenda (6/6)• Friday:

1. Agency and Representative Reports – Remove ESA’s report

2. Other issues (SG Chairs & Co-Chairs) ?

Main meeting objectives

Support to GEO• Priority to GEO tasks for which CEOS has a leading role

(Cl-06-02: “Response to GCOS” and DA-07-03 “Virtual Constellations”). – Current WGISS POCs:

• Kengo for action C-21 in CL-06-02• Martha for overall Virtual Constellations (DA-07-03)• Jean-Pierre for the Land Surface Imaging constellation (DA-07-03)

– WGISS POCs to be supported by other WGISS

• Other Candidates for GEO 2007-2009 tasks ?

• To be noted: very good reaction from WGISS (1/3 of registered GEOSS Components are from CEOS WGISS)

Future WGISS meetings• WGISS-25 Joint meeting with WGCV in

China (Hainan, Feb. 2008)

• WGISS-26 meeting: offer from NOAA (Ken) in Sep. 2008.

• Locations for Meetings in 2009 to be identified. Already look for candidates during the week

New and future nominations• Changes after CEOS Plenary (Nov. 13-15):

– Martha Maiden (NASA) – new WGISS Chair– Pakorn Apaphant (GISDTA) – new WGISS Vice-

Chair– Future Chair of “Projects & Applications”: Karen Moe

proposed by NASA. – Satoko Miura (JAXA) - new Vice-Chair of “Projects

& Applications”

• Necessity to define a rule for the nomination of a replacement to an EXEC leaving his/her position before the nominal end date

WGISS 5-year plan update• Yet another update is needed:

– New rule to manage the earlier replacement of Chair/Vice-Chair/Task Team leader (see previous slide)

– New Sensor Web Task Team– WGISS Support to GEO has changed between GEO

2006 WP (described in current WGISS 5-year plan) and GEO 2007-2009 WP (seems only cover page affected – TBC)

– Update the annexes (some names have changed)

Other open issues• How to increase the participation to WGs and

the expertise in some fields ?– Performing and attractive Task Teams– Better engagement of WGISS members into activities

of GEO Task Teams

• CEOS-level conference – Updated proposal to be prepared– Slow progress due to lack of time of WGISS Chair

and …. lack of interest from CEOS Reps.

Report to CEOS Plenary (Nov. 13-15)

• Draft paper report almost ready. – to be uploaded by Oct. 16, – will be included in CEOS Data Package

• Accompanied by a 4-slide presentation– much shorter than WGISS presentations at previous

CEOS Plenary (39 slides in Nov. 2006),– to be uploaded by Nov. 7,– not written yet,– to be presented by WGISS Chair