WG and VC Session
Objectives and Content
Jean-Louis Fellous
SIT Chair Team
CEOS SIT-29 Meeting – Session 2 – Item 8
CNES, Toulouse, France
9th-10th April 2014
SIT-29 Meeting
CNES, Toulouse, France
9th-10th April 2014
WG and VC Session Objectives and Content
• Under Point 6, SIT Chair briefly introduced Session 2
and defined the high-level objectives and strategic
goals that will be pursued during her mandate.
• On behalf of the SIT Chair team I shall now
• Outline in some more detail this session objectives and
content,
• Review the membership, composition and leadership of
VCs and WGs, and
• Provide a quick overview of the outcomes from VC-WG
telecons.
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Session 2 agenda
INFORMATION/DECISION – 75 MINUTES
12:00 – 13:15
WG and VC Session – VC focus (15 mins per topic)
VC Co-Leads will review briefly the current status and issues for SIT decision/action of their respective VC.
- OSVW-VC status and issues – training activities, international engagement (P Counet on behalf of P Chang and J Figa)
- OST-VC status and issues – recent results, continuity (J Lambin)
- OCR-VC status and issues – relationship with IOCCG, data access (J Lambin)
- PC-VC status and issues – GPM, continuity, international engagement (R Oki, C Ishida)
- ACC-VC status and issues – continuity of limb sounding (R Eckman)
Lunch on site (hosted)
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WG and VC Session (continued) (15mins per topic)
INFORMATION/DECISION
– 45 MINUTES
13:15 – 14:15
14:15 – 15:00
- SST-VC status and issues - Comparison campaign and SST Operational Validation Project (C Donlon remote connection)
- VC Deliverables (S Hosford)
Discussion and Synthesis (J-L Fellous, moderator)
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INFORMATION/DECISION
– 15 MINUTES
15:00 – 15:15
– 45 MINUTES
15:15 – 15:45
15:45 – 16:30
– 30 MINUTES
16:30 – 17:00
Land Surface Study Group (J Dalge - remote connection)
Break
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INFORMATION/DECISION
VC and WG Session – WG focus
WG Chair or Vice-chair will review briefly the current status and issues for SIT decision/action of their respective WG.
- WGISS issues for SIT decision/action (R Moreno)
- WGCV issues for SIT decision/action (S Srivastava)
- WGCapD issues for SIT decision/action (J Olwoch)
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INFORMATION/DECISION
Brief review and wrap (CNES SIT Chair Team)
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Objective #1: Synergy VCs & WGs
• Two lines of action aim at developing the desired synergy
between VCs and WGs
• Encourage more focused exchanges and collaboration
between the WGs and the VCs to support and develop the
VCs and thematic WGs
o Discussions initiated by Past SIT Chair and recent telecons
between SIT Chair Team, VCs and WGs helped identify several
areas of potential cross-collaboration
 I’ll come back to it later on
• Follow promising examples, such as
o WGCV and SST-VC
 We’ll hear more about it under agenda items 9 and 11
o WGISS support for WGDisaster Recovery Observatory
 We’ll hear more about it under agenda item 11 and during Session 4
o Production of ECVs by VCs interacting with WGClimate
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Objective #2: focus on deliverables
• Two lines of action aim at focusing on VC & WG
deliverables:
• Interact with GEO during the development of the next
Implementation Plan/Work plan
o This topic is open for discussion under agenda item 12
• Seek alignment with GEOSS post 2015 10-year plan
o We’ll hear more about it under agenda item 9
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Objective #3: broaden active participation
• Two lines of action aim at obtaining and/or strengthening the
involvement and active participation in VCs and WGs of CEOS
agencies holding key asset
• Engage more agencies into WG and VC leadership and
activities
o I’ll come back to it later on
o We’ll hear more about it under agenda items 9 and 11
• Revitalize the LSI-VC?
o Potential for enhanced coordination in land surface imagery at
“regional” level (e.g. South America, South-East Asia)?
o This topic is open for discussion under agenda item 10.
o Based on the outcomes of this discussion, the SIT Chair Team
will be preparing a position paper on that matter for presentation
at a later stage, perhaps at the SIT technical workshop in
September
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Objective #4: linking VCs & Science
• Two lines of action aim at establishing and/or
improving the linkages between VCs and existing
relevant scientific such as GRSST, IOCCG, OSTST,
IPWG (Precipitation), etc.
• Identify gaps and/or hurdles in these linkages
• Work with the sponsors of the relevant scientific groups
with a view to build on complementarity, commonalities,
and to improve overall coordination and efficiency
o We’ll hear more about this under agenda item 9
o This topic will be open for discussion under item 12
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WGs’ and VCs’ Leadership
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Working Groups
Chair
Vice-Chair
WGCV
Srivastava (CSA)
Von Bargen (DLR)
WGISS
Moreno (CNES)
Mitchell (NASA)
WDCapD
Wood (USGS)
Olwoch (SANSA)
WGDisasters
Petiteville (ESA)
Chalifoux (CSA)
WGClimate
Bates (NOAA-CGMS)
Lecomte (ESA-CEOS)
Virtual Constellations
Co-Leads
ACC-VC
Eckman (NASA)
Zehner (ESA)
SST-VC
Donlon (ESA)
Casey (NOAA)
OST-VC
Lambin (CNES)
Bonekamp (Eumetsat)
OSVW-VC
Figa (Eumetsat)
Chang (NOAA)
Gohil (ISRO)
OCR-VC
DiGiacomo (NOAA)
Bontempi (NASA)
Regner (ESA)
P-VC
Neeck (NASA)
Oki (JAXA)
LSI-VC
Dalge (INPE)
Faundeen (USGS)
Diwakar (ISRO)
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WGs’ and VCs’ Membership (1)
Affliliation
Representative
NRSCC, China
Prof. Chuanrong Li
ASI, Italy
Vittorio de Cosmo
BELSPO/IASB-BIRA, Belgium
Jean-Christopher Lambert (AC
subgroup vice-chair)
CNES, France
Patrice Henry
CREDSA, China
Fu Qiaoyan
CSA, Canada
Satish Srivastava (WGCV chair)
CSIRO, Australia
Geo Australia
Tim Malthus
Medhavy Thankappan
DLR, Germany
Albrecht von Bargen (WGCV
vice-chair)
Manfred Zink (SAR subgroup
chair)
ESA
Bojan Bojkov (AC subgroup
chair)
Philippe Goryl
GISTDA, Thailand
Raweewan Nutpramoon
INPE, Brazil
Leila Fonseca
Flávio Ponzoni
ISRO, India
Dr. A. Senthil Kumar, NRSC
Dr. B. Karthikeyan, SAC
JAXA, Japan
Keiji Imaoka
JRC, EC
Jean-Luc Widlowski
Giuseppe Zibordi
NASA, USA
Garik Gutman
Miguel Román (LPV subgroup
vice chair)
NMRS, China
Xiaolong Dong (MW subgroup
chair)
NOAA, USA
Changyong Cao
ROSCOSMOS, Russia
Kirill Emelyanov
Alexander Konyakhin
UKSA, UK
Nigel Fox (IVOS subgroup chair)
Jan-Peter Muller (TM subgroup
chair)
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub (LPV
subgroup chair)
USGS, USA
Gyanesh Chander
Gregory Stensaas
The WGCV Web
page contains a
list seemingly
up-to-date of
CEOS agency
representatives.
• The same is true
for several other
WGs/VCs
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WGs’ and VCs’ Membership (2)
• The WGISS Web page contains a list obviously
outdated. The same is true for several other WGs/VCs
• The WGCapD Web page supposedly containing the
list of members is not accessible
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You may not be able to visit this page
because of:
•an out-of-date bookmark/favourite
•a search engine that has an out-of-date
listing for this site
•a mistyped address
•you have no access to this page
•The requested resource was not found.
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your request.
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Overview of VC-WG telecon outcome
• Eleven telecons were held in late January-early
February involving participation of SIT Chair and her
team (plus the CEO and a representative of CEOS
Chair) with the leaders of the five WGs and six VCs
• Three objectives were pursued
• Introduce and review the status and issues and
potential resolutions that may require SIT Chair support
• Continue the discussion on issues raised in sidemeetings or previous telecons
• Prepare SIT-29 discussions and subsequent action
• Swift exchange of views and actions identified
• Short reports on tag-up telecons available
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Action items from tag-up telecons (1)
Action
SIT-Chair/WGCV/1
Content
SIT Chair Team to encourage CEOS
agencies to provide additional funding and
resources in support of the Calibration
campaigns.
SIT-Chair/WGCapD/1
WGCapD to coordinate with WGISS on
data access
SIT-Chair/WGDisasters/1 WGDisasters to consider merging Data and
Supersites Coordination Teams
SIT-Chair/WGDisasters/2 SIT Chair Team to plan for a “mini-Plenary”
session at SIT-29 including formal approval
of WGDisasters’ organization and structure.
SIT-Chair/WGDisasters/3 WGDisasters to extend the Call for DRM
Pilot requirements to all CEOS agencies.
SIT-Chair/WGClimate/1
SIT Chair Team to contact past SIT Chair
and JAXA to inquire on the designation of
a new CTF contact and on his/her
presence at SIT-29
Due date
SIT-29
By SIT-29
By SIT-29
By SIT-29
By SIT-29
By mid-February
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Action items from tag-up telecons (2)
Action
SIT-Chair/ACC-VC/1
SIT-Chair/ACC-VC/2
SIT-Chair/SST-VC/1
SIT-Chair/SST-VC/2
SIT-Chair/OST-VC/1
SIT-Chair/OST-VC/2
SIT-Chair/OST-VC/3
Content
SIT Chair Team to pursue efforts to better
engage agencies in ACC-VC activities.
SIT Chair Team to support ACC-VC
recommendation for limb sounding missions.
SST-VC to submit a request for a side meeting
at Technical workshop
SIT Chair Team to pursue its efforts to better
engage agencies from China, Korea and other
countries in the SST-VC activities.
SIT Chair Team to help clarify the status of
OST-VC ToRs
SIT Chair Team to pursue its efforts to better
engage agencies from India, China, Russia,
and Japan in the OST-VC activities.
OST-VC to explore the possibility to hold a side
meeting during the next OSTST in Konstanz
Due date
SIT-29, Plenary
and beyond
SIT-29, Plenary
and beyond
By mid-July
SIT-29, Plenary
and beyond
By Plenary
SIT-29, Plenary
and beyond
October 2014
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Action items from tag-up telecons (3)
Action
SIT-Chair/OSVW-VC/1
SIT-Chair/OSVW-VC/2
SIT-Chair/OSVW-VC/3
SIT-Chair/OCR-VC/1
SIT-Chair/OCR-VC/2
SIT-Chair/PC-VC/1
Content
SIT Chair to confirm the engagement of
CNES in OSVW-VC activities and re: the
CFOSAT mission identify the appropriate
contact person.
Saldana to report about plans for future
training workshops.
SIT Chair Team to work with Roshydromet
and Roscosmos about their potential
engagement in the VC, in relation with the
launch of Meteor-M3 in 2017.
SIT Chair Team to pursue efforts to better
engage agencies in OCR-VC activities.
OCR-VC leaders to convey the conclusions
of IOCCG meeting to SIT Chair team
SIT Chair Team to pursue its efforts to better
engage agencies from China and Russia in
the PC-VC activities.
Due date
By SIT-29
By SIT-29
SIT-29, 2014
Plenary and
beyond
SIT-29, Plenary
and beyond
15 March 2014
SIT-29, Plenary
and beyond
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