Current WGISS/CEOS GEO Tasks and Actions

1. Current WGISS/CEOS GEO Tasks and Actions Pakorn Apaphant May 11, 2009 WGISS 27 Toulouse, France

2. 2009 Priorities of CEOS Chair • “Continuity of excellent progress towards GEOSS space Segment implementation” • ……

3. Topics • CEOS Actions in support of the GEO 2009-2011 Work Plan • Actions to WGISS/CEOS • CEOS Tangible Outcomes • Guidance to subgroups

4. CEOS Actions in support of the GEO 2009-2011 Work Plan

5. CEOS-GEO Remapping Meeting • Dec 3-4, 2008, Geneva • The identification of 16 tasks/sub-tasks that CEOS is co-leading • 54 tasks/sub-tasks that CEOS and/or its agencies could potentially contribute to • It is very important to showcase CEOS actions and activities in support of GEO • Space agency logos where they are supporting GEO will be included

6. 2nd CEOS-GEO Remapping Workshop, Jan 27-28, 2009, Silver Spring • CEOS GEO Worktable questionnaires • CEOS GEO Action Table • Nearly hundred Actionable actions • WGISS involves in 8 actions • Leading 4 actions • Cooperate with WGCV 2 actions (PoC to be identified) • 2 Health SBA actions to be discussed (PoC to be identified)

7. The priority classification rule • Category 1 • CEOS Actions addressing one of the top priority from GEO SEC or a GEO Task led by CEOS • Action either completed or with significant outcomes to be delivered at the latest in October 2009 • Category 2 • CEOS Actions addressing one of the top priority from GEO SEC or a GEO Task led by CEOS • in terms of outcomes, does not fall in category 1 • Category 3 • CEOS Actions not addressing one of the top priority from GEO SEC or a GEO Task led by CEOS • Action either completed or with significant outcomes to be delivered at the latest in October 2009 • Category 4 • CEOS Actions not addressing one of the top priority from GEO SEC or a GEO Task led by CEOS • in terms of outcomes, does not fall in category 1

8. SIT 23 • March 4-5, Cocoa Beach • Categorize the CEOS actions • Agency Commitments to Actions in category 1 and 2 • Development of CEOS 2009 Tangible Outcomes for GEO, G8, and UNFCCC • Monthly Telecon with the CEO

9. Actions to WGISS/CEOS

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18. CEOS Tangible Outcomes

19. Troika’s Focus • The 2009 CEOS Troika agencies have proposed that CEOS efforts for the 2009-2010 time period focus on demonstrable Deliverables • Consistent with charges and priorities identified by GEO, its Plenary and Ministerial; by G8; and by UNFCCC. • Such Deliverables would include, for example • enabling access to key products and datasets • providing information systems and services to exploit data • important new climate data records

20. Potential key Deliverables associated with CAT 1 and 2 Tasks will be outlined in a document. Other Deliverables may materialize from the over 80 CEOS -GEO actions • In connection with Action 23-10 from SIT Meeting, • the SIT Chair, with involvement of the CEOS Executive Officer (CEO), has begun to collate a list of proposed Deliverables for review by the CEOS Chair and Troika Members • to be subsequently shared by the CEOS Chair with all CEOS Agencies. • CEOS will then coordinate these Deliverables, as appropriate, with GEO, the G8, and UNFCCC • A living Document until end of May 2009

21. Areas of interest • Forest Carbon Tracking • Global Monitoring of Greenhouse Gases from Space • Climate Change • Data Sharing • GEOSS Quality Assurance Strategy • Capacity Building for Water Resource Management: Africa • CEOS Virtual Constellations for GEO • Global Sea level rise • Management of Energy Sources • Global Digital Elevation Model (DEM): • CEOS Handbook 2008 and the CEOS Mission, Instruments and Measurements (MIM) Database 2009:

23. Guidance to subgroups

24. Guidance to subgroups • Action Progress report and update • Candidate List of tangible outcomes • Recommendation Actions and PoCs for WGISS to • DA-09-01a_10 • DA-09-01a_11 • HE-09_01_1 • HE-09_01_2