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Committee on Earth Observation Satellites

Committee on Earth Observation Satellites. Incoming SIT Chair Priorities. ESA Plenary Agenda Item 33 29 th CEOS Plenary Kyoto International Conference Center Kyoto, Japan 5 – 6 November 2015. Incoming SIT Chair priorities for 2016/2017.

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Committee on Earth Observation Satellites

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  1. Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Incoming SIT Chair Priorities • ESA • Plenary Agenda Item 33 • 29th CEOS Plenary • Kyoto International Conference Center • Kyoto, Japan • 5 – 6 November 2015

  2. Incoming SIT Chair priorities for 2016/2017 • Ensure success of ongoing CEOS Priorities – recent systematic procedures have promoted several major initiatives • Ensure full access to & exploitation of Copernicus Sentinel data in support of the above priorities • Develop further the CEOS-GCOS-IPCC-UNFCCC relationship for climate measures, observations and indicators, post COP-21 with WG-Climate and through the GCOS Implementation Plan (2016) & Satellite Supplement (2016), CEOS Response (2017). • And : • Maintain and improve effectiveness of strategic partnerships with UN agencies, investment banks, international programmes and agencies and ensure GEO is effective as an instrument in this • Support the initiatives of the incoming CEOS Chairs in 2016/2017as partnership with ESA SIT Chairmanship

  3. ESA process emphasis as SIT Chair • Need to maintain and respect procedures developed and • carefully codified over the last few years • Re-establish the relative roles and functions of the SIT and CEOS Plenary meetings, with appropriate attendance: • Plenary (Oct/Nov) setting the strategic direction for CEOS, setting priorities and giving targets • Strategic Implementation Team (SIT), meeting once per year (Mar/Apr) and setting strategic direction of implementation of CEOS Priorities set by Plenary • SIT workshop (September), a technical meeting to track progress against objectives in advance of Plenary, to identify any specific resource constraints for attention of Principals, and generally to prepare Plenary • SIT vice-Chair 2016-2017 to be nominated

  4. SIT Chair as interface CEOS-GEO • SIT Chair Team nominated as main interface between CEOS and GEO • Note additional call on resources of SIT Chair emerging from the new GEO Process • Need to establish appropriate modus operandi for CEOS at GEO Programme Board (and PB Chair?) • Pursue position of CEOS as Observer on GEO Excom • Need to establish appropriate representation for CEOS at PB and Excom at/before GEO Plenary.

  5. SIT Meetings in 2016 • Full meeting of Strategic Implementation Team: • - 18-20 April 2016, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. • SIT Technical Workshop: • - 13-15 September 2016, Oxford/Harwell, UK

  6. Massive open online Course parallel to COP21 https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/climate-from-space Meteorological Programme Earth ObservationEnvelope Programme Copernicus Programme

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