1. Calendar November 2009 – November 2010 Agenda item: 28 Presented by: Hilcéa Ferreira (INPE) 1 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 2009

2. Activities and Meetings The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20092 Discussion of CEOS level meetings for the upcoming year, and other meetings of general interest to CEOS members.  CEOS Plenary  SIT  Working Groups  Virtual Constellations  SBAs  GEO related Activities  Others

3. CEOS SIT (1/2) The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20093  Meeting with GEO Secretariat, mid-end of Dec 2009  Call for CEOS activities (before Xmas 09)  Responses by mid-Jan 10  CEOS Action Workshop, end of January, DC area (hosted by NASA)  Tags-up telecons for CEOS Agencies commitment (mid-March 10)

4. CEOS SIT (2/2) The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20094  SIT-25, April 12-14, 2010 - Tokyo, Japan  SIT-26 – TBD

5. Working Groups The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20095  Calibration and Validation  WGCV 31: beginning of March (NIST, USA)  WGCV 32: planned for September (CSA, Canada). That should be a joint WGCV / WGISS meeting.  Information Systems and Services  WGISS 29–May 17-21, 2010 (UNOOSA –Bonn, Germany)  WGISS 30 -Sep 2010 - Joint WGISS/WGCV Working Group Meeting (CSA, Canada)  Education, Training, and Capacity Building  WGEdu –May 2010 (CONAE, Argentina)

6. Virtual Constellations The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20096  LSI – Land Surface Imaging  Last week of February - Brazil  OCR – Ocean Surface Topography  Related event: Jan 18-20, 15th IOCCG/OCR Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  Atmospheric Composition  Precipitation  Ocean Color Radiometry  Ocean Surface Vector Wind

7. GEO Related activities The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20097  GEO Committee meetings  GEOSS related workshops  GEO Ministerial Summit

8. Other events The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20098  EUMETSAT  WMO  UNFCCC  UNOOSA

9. CEOS Plenary The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20099  November 3-5, 2009 23 rd CEOS Plenary GISTDA – Phuket, Thailand Our suggestion for 24th CEOS Plenary in 2010 October 13-15, 2010 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

10. Calendar: 2009-2010 The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 200910

11. Conclusions The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 200911  There are still lots of meetings to be filled in this table  VCs  SBAs  GHG, FCT, …  TROIKA  GEO Committee meetings…  It seems that we will have a very busy and “short” 2010…

12. The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 200912 Thanks!!