CEOS Ad Hoc Working Group on GEOGLAM Meetings

6th – 7th September 2017

ESA/ESRIN Room G

Frascati, Italy

The CEOS Ad Hoc WG on GEOGLAM will meet in parallel sessions with the Space Data Coordination Group for GFOI and the Land Surface Imaging – Virtual Constellation during the week that precedes the CEOS SIT Technical Workshop.

Week at a Glance

Monday 4th / Tuesday 5th / Wednesday 6th / Thursday 7th / Friday 8th
GFOI Early Warning TF / SDCG-12 / Joint Session / LSI / SDCG / GEOGLAM / Joint Session
SDCG Early Warning / SDCG-12 / LSI / SDCG / GEOGLAM / Joint Session / Travel

The GEOGLAM-specific agenda is as follows. The emphasis is on DISCUSSION and determining a way forward on the issues outlined below. Moderator/presenter names are in parenthesis.

Wednesday, 6 September 2017:

14:00-14:30 – Welcome, Objectives, & GEOGLAM Program Updates (Ian Jarvis)

14:30-16:00 – GEOGLAM EO Requirements: Session I (Alyssa Whitcraft, Pierre Defourny)

- 2012-2014 Requirements Effort Review: Defourny Diagram, Montreal Meeting, and Beyond

- 2016-2017 Requirements Refresh Status: Rationale, Approach, and JECAM Site Inputs

- Group Discussion on Scale & Scope: R&D vs. Operational; National-Regional-Global

16:00-16:20 Break

16:20-18:00 – GEOGLAM EO Requirements: Session II (Alyssa Whitcraft)

- Next steps on Requirements Refresh

- Considerations for Future Missions & CEOS Potential Responses

- Discussion

18:00 Adjourn

20:00 -: Group Dinner (No-Host), Ara Anua (

Thursday, 7 September 2017:

09:00-10:00 – Technical Aspects of the Requirements (Ian Jarvis)

- Major Trends in EO Data: High Frequency, High Spatial Resolution Optical and SAR

- Pre-processing, Storage, and Dissemination of Increasing Data Volumes

10:00-10:20 – ESAThematic Exploitation Platform – (Espen Volden - TBC)

10:20-10:40 – Interactionwith CEOS data activities – FDA and Data Cube (Brian Killough)

10:40-11:00 – Discussionon Next Generation Data Architectures

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:05– Regional Network Updates (10-15 minutes each)

- AfriGAM (Terry Newby)

- RAPP (RAPP Co-Leads – Clement Adjorlolo and Juan Pablo Guerschman)

- Asia-RiCE (Thuy LeToan - TBC)

- GEOGLAM Latinoamerica (Carlos di Bella and Alyssa Whitcraft, in absentia)

12:05-12:20 – GEOGLAM and the SDGs (Ian Jarvis)

12:20-13:00 – Discussions around LSI-VC and future of the Ad Hoc WG; preparation for Friday Morning report-back (Brad Doorn, Selma Cherchali)

13:00 Adjourn; Lunch

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