We look forward to welcome you in Rio next November.
EUMETSAT, INPE
and STA/NASDA:
past, present and future
CEOS Chairs represented in Geneva.
Mr. Marcio Barbosa
INPE (Brazil)
CEOS Chairman
By the time this Newsletter is published, most of the Year 2000 CEOS
Chair term has elapsed. A lot has been accomplished already during this
period, and the other articles in this Newsletter give a general panorama
of what's going on in CEOS. The Working Groups, including the ad-hoc ones
(WG-Edu and DMSG), are actively pursuing their assignments in the technical
and administrative areas, and the June meetings in Geneva (Secretariat
50, SIT 6 and IGOS-P 5) represented a big step forward in the CEOS management
and planning aspects.
In particular, the idea of a standing support body for the IGOS Partnership,
a long-felt need, received wide support and we expect
it to be implemented at the next meeting, superseding and enhancing
the Liaison Group responsibilities in the form of an IGOS-P Secretariat.
We believe this will greatly help the development and follow-up of IGOS
Themes. Interaction among Partners can be more efficiently processed and
managed in between meetings, and the Partnership can dedicate more focus
to evaluation, decision and guidance issues when assembling together.
Interaction with the Private Sector has achieved even more momentum than initially expected, with space opened for it in three events this year: the Tokyo RESTEC 25th Anniversary Symposium, the Amsterdam XIX ISPRS Congress in July, and the 51st IAF Congress to be held in October, in Rio.
Rio is also where the 14th CEOS Plenary is going to happen, and we are
striving to make it an experience to remember, not only for the meeting
itself. By the time you read this, the Second Announcement will have already
been sent out, with additional information and details. The preparation
of Plenary documents should make use of the CEOS Information Infrastructure
(CII) facilities, so that joint work or revisions can be carried out more
easily and efficiently. Participants can download and print the final documents
at their convenience. We expect this to simplify and facilitate the overall
preparation activities.
We look forward to welcome you in Rio next November.
EUMETSAT, INPE
and STA/NASDA:
past, present and future
CEOS Chairs represented in Geneva.
