GCI for Water virtual workshop

Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is hosting a virtual workshop on GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) for Water 29 March 2017, at 14:00 Geneva Time (CET). This session aims to establish a dialogue between the Water Community and the team working on the GEOSS Common Infrastructure with a focus on Earth observations (EO) for Water.   

Programme

Introduction 

• Objectives of the workshop (5Mins – GEO Secretariat)
• Presentation of Flagships and Initiatives under Water SBA (5 Mins –Initiatives Leaders)
• Toshio Koike – DIAS (Data Integration and Analysis System)
• Will Pozzi - GDIS (Global Drought Information System)
• Angelica Gutierrez, GEOGLOWS (GEO Global Water Sustainability)
• Steven Greb – Aquawatch (GEO Water Quality Community of Practice)
• Hannele Savela – GEOCRI (GEO Cold Region Initiative)

GCI overview of the water SBA datasets and related activities

• Main data providers brokered (5 Mins – GEO Secretariat)
• Assessment of available resources (5 Mins – GEO Secretariat)
• GEOSS Portal: water related demo (15 Mins – Guido, ESA)
• Proposed Customization of the GEOSS Portal for Water View:
• “What is a View” (5 Mins, Mattia CNR)
• “Proposed Customization of the GEOSS Portal “(10 Mins Eliana ESA, )
• Q & A and open discussion (10 Mins)

Engagement with the water community

• Top 10 priority data portals of reference that GCI should broker for community specialists (20 Mins – Water community)
• Functionality required to address Flagship and Initiative goals (10 Mins – Flagships and
• Initiatives leaders)
• How does your community handle your data? (10 Mins – Open discussion)
• Do you need a community portal? (10 Mins – Open discussion)
• Next steps (10 Mins)