1. WGISS-24 Preparatory meeting Issue 1.1 Sunday Sep. 14, 2007

2. Meeting Agenda Logistics – General issues Review of WGISS-24 agenda Main objectives of WGISS-24

3. Logistics – General issues

4. Logistics - General issues Hotel Departure to DLR: –All mornings from hotels to DLR: –8:00, Hotel Andechser Hof –8:05, Hotel Seehof –8:10, Ammersee-Hotel –8:15. Hotel Piushof Lunch breaks durations & locations –1 hour every day (12:45 to 13:45) except on Wednesday (0:45) because of the Host workshop (starts at 13:30) –Location: DLR (TBC by Bernhard) Coffee Breaks –30 minutes that could be shortened to 15 minutes if needed No usage of Internet during: –Welcome speeches Monday morning and during the Workshop on Wednesday afternoon …. And during GEO session !!

5. No usage of Internet during Welcome speeches Monday morning Workshop on Wednesday afternoon … GEO session on Thursday !!

6. WGISS-24 Agenda

7. Changes since Oct. 11 (Monday) “CEOS IP” session removed as covered in “Report from SIT meeting” (Tuesday) “Techno & Services” session starts earlier at 11:15. (Tuesday) Duration of “Sensor Web” increased by 0.5 h (Tuesday, end of afternoon) 2 topics added: 1.Update of “WGISS 5-year plan” 2.Outreach: call for inputs to the WGISS report to Plenary

8. Changes since Oct. 11 (cont’) (Wednesday ) Group photo before 1st coffee break (Thursday) “Future WGISS meetings” duration reduced. “GEO session” start anticipated

9. Open Issues on Agenda (1/6) Monday: 1.List of attendees ( to be circulated  George) 2.Propose to remove “CEOS IP” session as covered in “Report from SIT meeting”

10. Open Issues on Agenda (2/6) Monday (cont’): 1.ATT Session: 12’ have been allocated to “GCOS Action reply” topic. Seems too little given the status of the action. To be discussed again at GEO session (agreed with Kengo) 2.“WTF Core Sites” session duration ? Any open issue still ? 3.Other issues (SG Chairs & Vice-Chairs) ?

11. Open Issues on Agenda (3/6) Tuesday: 1.1.5 hours currently allocated to P&A still not detailed 2.Other issues (SG Chairs & Co-Chairs) ?

12. Open Issues on Agenda (4/6) Wednesday: 1.Host Dinner organized by DLR –Bus departs DLR 17:45 direct to Dinner, return to the hotels at approximately 22:30. –Dressing code ? 2.Other issues (SG Chairs & Co-Chairs) ?

13. Open Issues on Agenda (5/6) Thursday: 1.Liaisons Reports presenters still missing for both –ICSU/World Data Center Panel –eGY 2.Future WGISS meetings: duration of 1 h 15 ‘ is too much 3.Other issues (SG Chairs & Co-Chairs) ?

14. Open Issues on Agenda (6/6) Friday: 1.Agency and Representative Reports –Remove ESA’s report 2.Other issues (SG Chairs & Co-Chairs) ?

15. Main meeting objectives

16. Support to GEO Priority to GEO tasks for which CEOS has a leading role (Cl-06-02: “Response to GCOS” and DA-07-03 “Virtual Constellations”). –Current WGISS POCs: Kengo for action C-21 in CL-06-02 Martha for overall Virtual Constellations (DA-07-03) Jean-Pierre for the Land Surface Imaging constellation (DA-07-03) –WGISS POCs to be supported by other WGISS Other Candidates for GEO 2007-2009 tasks ? To be noted: very good reaction from WGISS (1/3 of registered GEOSS Components are from CEOS WGISS)

17. Future WGISS meetings WGISS-25 Joint meeting with WGCV in China (Hainan, Feb. 2008) WGISS-26 meeting: offer from NOAA (Ken) in Sep. 2008. Locations for Meetings in 2009 to be identified. Already look for candidates during the week

18. New and future nominations Changes after CEOS Plenary ( Nov. 13-15 ): –Martha Maiden (NASA) – new WGISS Chair –Pakorn Apaphant (GISDTA) – new WGISS Vice- Chair –Future Chair of “Projects & Applications”: Karen Moe proposed by NASA. –Satoko Miura (JAXA) - new Vice-Chair of “Projects & Applications” Necessity to define a rule for the nomination of a replacement to an EXEC leaving his/her position before the nominal end date

19. WGISS 5-year plan update Yet another update is needed: –New rule to manage the earlier replacement of Chair/Vice-Chair/Task Team leader (see previous slide) –New Sensor Web Task Team –WGISS Support to GEO has changed between GEO 2006 WP (described in current WGISS 5-year plan) and GEO 2007-2009 WP (seems only cover page affected – TBC) –Update the annexes (some names have changed)

20. Other open issues How to increase the participation to WGs and the expertise in some fields ? –Performing and attractive Task Teams –Better engagement of WGISS members into activities of GEO Task Teams CEOS-level conference –Updated proposal to be prepared –Slow progress due to lack of time of WGISS Chair and …. lack of interest from CEOS Reps.

21. Report to CEOS Plenary (Nov. 13-15) Draft paper report almost ready. –to be uploaded by Oct. 16, –will be included in CEOS Data Package Accompanied by a 4-slide presentation –much shorter than WGISS presentations at previous CEOS Plenary (39 slides in Nov. 2006), –to be uploaded by Nov. 7, –not written yet, –to be presented by WGISS Chair