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CONTENTSCEOS Task Force on Planning and Analysis Reports
Activities of Working Group on Calibration and Valldatlon, (WGCV)
CEOS Inventory Interoperability Experlment
The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS): Plan for Space-Based Observations
Analysis of the Great Hanshin Earthquake by Using Satellite Data
Feasibility Study for a CEOS Developing Country Space Information System
The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS):
Plan for Space-Based Observations (continued from page 4)
CEOS Plenary/IAI/Highlight/Calender---This page
Ninth CEOS Plenary Meeting, CANADA
- The ninth CEOS Plenary Meeting will be held October 11-13, 1995 in
Saint-Hubert, Canada at the Canadian Space Agency.
Key issues to be dscussed at the upcoming Ninth Plenary Meeting include:
- re-alignment of the CEOS Working Groups, in particular the proposal to merge WGD and the interim WGINS into one consolidated Working Group. Also will look at the revised terms of reference for the WG's;
- report of the CEOS User Workshop held in Washington, May 8-9, 1995 and final report and proposed action plan from the CEOS Task Force on Planning and Analysis;
- annual review of Future CEOS Strategy;
- reports on projects relating to CEOS support for developing countries, including a report from IGBP on their analysis of geographic coverage by high-resolution satellites. Australia will report on the status of the Developing Country training package. Germany will report on their Space Information System feasibility study.
The 1995 CEOS Yearbook has been completed and copies will be distributed at the Plenary. Also, copies of the NASDA Special Report on Successful Applications of EO Satellite Data should be available at the Plenary.
- The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), the
Directorate of which is located at the Brazilian National Space Research
Institute (INPE), one of the orginal CEOS Members, is part of an initiative
that resulted from a "Workshop for the Development of a Western Hemisphere
Institute for Global Change Research" from July 16-19, 1991 in San Juan,
Puerto Rico. The Workshop participants recognized that global change has
regional implications and thus should be understood and addressed regionally.
On May 13, 1992 in Montevideo, Uruguay, eleven countries signed the Agreement
to Establish the IAI, a regional network of research centers dedicated
to the study of global change and its impact of human society. As of December
1994, sixteen countries of the Americas had signed the IAI Agreement.
The IAI is a partnership to advance the sustainable development of the region through the generation of environmental data, scientific research and policy-relevant information derived in and by the countries of the Americas.
The initiative is designed to build scientific and technological capacity through a focused education and training program for the region and provide a forum for the analysis of environmental information in the context of pressing socio-economic needs.
Dr. Armando Rabuffetti has been elected as the first Director General of the IAI.
Dr. Rabuffetti. is Director General of the National Agriculture Research Institute (INIA) of Uruguay. He was educated at the Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay, Iowa State University, and hold a Ph.D in Soil Science from North Carolina State University. His research has forused on NPK fertilization and soil fertility and management. The IAI Directorate should be operationa and the IAI Derector will assume his position by August 1995.
- CEOS is pleased to be a co-sponsor of the first International Space
University Symposium, "Space of Service to Humanity (SOS Humanity): preserving
Earth and improving life".
The symposium will be held in Strasbourg, France, from 5 to 7 February 1996. Both international and contributed papers will be presented.
This international symposium closely relates to the 1995-96 Design Project of the ISU Master of Space Studies program. For futher information, please contact:
ISU (att: Emma Moyen)
Parc d'Innovation, Boulevard Gonthier d'Andernach
67400 Illkirch, France
Tel: (+33) 88 65 54 46
Fax: (+33) 88 65 54 47
e-mail: moyen@isu. isunet.edu
CEOS Meeting Calendar
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