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CONTENTSReport from the 9th CEPS Plenary in Canada
Australian Research Agency Chairs CEOS
CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS)
CEOS and Ocean Color
What is the international Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research (IGFA)
The Centre for Earth Observation (CEO) Technical Activities in the CEOS
Framework---This page
Framework/CEOS Holds First Open ForumsNews Highlights/ Meeting Calendar
Summary of User Requirement Workshop
1993 CEOS Meeting Calender
The Centre for Earth Observation(CEO) Technical Activities in the CEOS Framework
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4.Installation of tools to monitor the utilization of EO services and networks
- A Simple Network Monitoring Protocol (SNMP) is used to monitor the
network traffic of major European data servers. This study aims to obtain
statistics as an input to the ongoing CEOS network discussion.
- CEOS has released two major contracts in order to allow CEOS CINTEX
interoperability to three European data catalogues:
SPOT Image-(all global Spot meta data)
Eurimage-(all European Landsat and some more meta data)
EUMETSAT-(all Meteosat meta data)
The contract will ensure that all these data bases (incl. browse for SPOT & Eurimage) will be accessible through the NASA IMS V0 protocol. This would add - from the European perspective - most important data servers, incl. commercial ones. CEOS is therewith supporting to continue with CINTEX as a preoperational interoperability and engineering and user testbed for future interoperability systems.
The initiation of the work and the father procedure was discussed with the CEOS CINTEX team. The contract are also investigating the potential of the new Catalogue Interoperability Protocol (CIP), currently discussed in the Catalogue Subgroup protocol Definition Task Team.
- A further support for CINTEX is that one need an IMS compatible Client
to access this data. As the CEO technical concept is relying on public
tools such as WWW, a further work is performed to create a WWW client to
access CINTEX compatible catalogues via the WWW.
To avoid duplication with the work already initiated at NASA, CEO has decided to go with this client to the latest available technology, JAVA from SUN Microsystems.
- Within this work CEO is exploring the use natural language interface
and Thesauri for the user guidance within catalogue interface.
Summary:
This brief overview has shown, that the European Commission with its
CEO programme, is relying and building on the technical expertise of CEOS
partners and would like to contribute substantial resources to promote
and install CEOS compliant systems for the international Earth observation
data and information exchange.
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porting ancillary and auxiliary data and information, enabling improved
interoperability and interconnectivity of information systems and services.
Specific goals are to:
Enable Earth observation data and information services to be more accessible
and usable to data providers and data users worldwide through international
coordination;
Enhance the complementarity, interoperability, and standardization
of Earth observation data and information management and services;
Foster easier exchange of Earth observation data and information through
networks and other means, to meet the requirements of users and data providers.
The Plenary thanked the Working Groups for their impressive accomplishments
and hard work during 1995.
CEOS Resolution on Ocean Colour
IOC proposed to set up an International Ocean Colour Coordination Group,
in order to facilitate the coordination and development of this important
new data stream and promote user community involvement. The Plenary agreed
that this was a timely and appropriate action and expressed its support
of these activities through its endorsement of the following resolution.
The committee on Earth Observation Satellite:
Nothing the executive summary of the IOC Wrokgroup on Ocean Colour
Requirements and Utilization (Sidney, B.C.21-22 September 1995);
Recognizing the value of ocean colour data in the understanding of
the marine ecosystem and their contribution to the global ecosystem;
Also recognizing the need for increased coordination among space-based
data providers; in-situ data providers, and the global user community to
improve data utilization and reduce cost;
Supports the formation by IOC of the International Ocean Colour Coordination
Group (IOCCG);
Encourages all CEOS members, observers, and affiliates with relevant
scientific,, technical, or other interests to fully participate in the
IOCCG.
Requests WGISS, WGCV and IOCCG to coordinate relevant activities in
order to foster the best collective use of the various ocean colour sensors
to be launched by different nations over th next decades.
Developing Country Activities
The Future CEOS Strategy was amended to sharpen focus on Developing
Country activities. Progress was reported on several projects relatingto Developing Countries, including IGBP analysis of geographic coverage
by high resolution satellites, DARA space information system feasibility
study, and CSIRO training package.
Future Meetings
Dr. Embleton confirmed that CSIRO will host the 10th Plenary to be
held on November 13-15, 1996 in Canberra, Australia. Dr. Ratier confirmed
that CNES would host the 11th Plenary in France 1997 and ISRO proposed
to host the 12th Plenary in India 1998.
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