CEOS NEWSLETTER No.9

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CONTENTS
IGOS Strategic Implementation:Project and Partnership
CEOS Analysis Group Activity
CNES Activities in Relation with User Organizations
News from the Working Group on Information Systems and Services
The CEOS Information Locator System CILS
News from the International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group
Information on the Preparation of the 11th Plenary
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CEOS Activities in Relation with User Organizations

the new spirit of partnership that is developing between CEOS and user organizations. CEOS has again been kindly invited to attend the next IGFA Plenary meeting, this year in Tucson in October. In the meantime it is planned to continue building upon the excellent climate of collaboration with IGFA that has flourished in the recent period and to act together in view of preparing an IGOS Partners meeting that could take place next spring.
A continuing dialogue between space agencies and user organizations of various backgrounds and experience has come to this stage with a nice touch of friendliness, paving the way to a fruitful convergence of all efforts in setting up observing systems of our unique planet to the benefit of its inhabitants.

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The CEOS Information Locator System CILS

Promoting CILS
Readers of the CEOS Newsletter are invited to have a look by simply connecting to CILS from any WWW browser and examine the offerings.
The CILS URL's are:


CILS would be grateful for comments and suggestions, and, most important of all, assistance in sharing Information about this new CEOS service with contacts in developing countries. CILS should not only be a way to log into information sources in the industrialized world; to be meaningful and relevant it must also, and primarily, reflect activities in developing countries, described in the words of local staff, and enable them to contact users of remote sensing technology in other developing countries who may be facing similar situations.
This is only possible if potential users can become acquainted with CILS, Readers of the CEOS Newsletter who are interested in supporting this promotion effort, in a mailing to an appropriate distribution list, or in the course of their regular contacts, can obtain from the CILS staff a brochure, or additional information, by contacting: 

     Mr. Gunter Schreier, DFD

     DLR Oberpfaffenhofen D-82234 Wessing, Germany

     Tel. +49(O)8153 28 1375 Fax, +49(O)8153 28 1313

     Email schreier@dfd.dlr.de

     Mr. Thomas Ruwwe, DARA

     P,O, Box 300364 D-53183 Bonn, Germany

     Tel. +49(O)228 447 303 Fax. +49(O)228 447 703

     Email thomas.ruwwe@dara,de 
The 1997 CEOS Consolidated Report is planned to be issued in October 1997. The Consolidated Report provides a concise overview of CEOS and its Working Groups, covering its history, purpose and accomplishments to date. NASA will distribute copies to CEOS agencies prior to the Plenary. Additional copies can be obtained from NASA.

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News from the Working Group on Information Systems and Services

Network Subgroup
The Network Architecture and Planning task has developed a CEOSnet Resource Planning and Coordination Document, which describes the current approach to network planning and coordination and activities to define and evolve toward a CEOS global network architecture that will support all CEOS activities. The Network Subgroup has developed an Acceptable Use Policy and a Network Security Policy for the CEOSnet. The Network Performance task continues to monitor and improve network performance in support of CEOS activities. WGISS approved a new task on CEOSnet Next Generation Prototyping, to promote multiagency prototyping of new data and information system services over high performance networks.
Other WGISS Activities
CNES has taken the lead in preparing the 1997 version of the CEOS CD-ROM for Education and Developing Countries. Building on the first version, developed by CSIRO for the 1996 Plenary, CNES is soliciting contributions to expand the CD-ROM'S sections on education, remote sensing satellite systems, and application cases.
DARA and DLR have begun the feasibility demonstration phase of the CEOS Information Locator Service (CILS) for developing countries, CILS is a metadata information system that provides a net-work-based means for users in developing countries around the world to access information about Earth observation by satellite and gives users the opportunity to input, administer, and share their own relevant data and information.
The WGISS Hazards and Emergency Response task team held its first meeting in January and decided to focus initially on pilot projects related to flooding and earthquakes. The task team intends to develop guidelines and demonstrate how Earth observation satellite data can be used for disaster management.
ESA demonstrated the new CEOS Information System (http://ceos.esrin.esa,it/infosys) and its full-text search functions.
Future Meetings
The next WGISS meeting (#5), the last one chaired by NOAA, will be held October 21-24, hosted by ISRO in Bangalore, India. It will be preceded by a meeting of the WGISS Strategy Task Team on October 20 and followed by site visits to ISRO and NRSA facilities in Bangalore and Hyderabad. For more information on WGISS or the upcoming meeting, please contact Helen Wood, WGISS Chair, at hwood@nesdis.noaa.gov or fax + I -301 -457-5184, or Jean Schiro-Zavela, WGISS Secretariat, at Jean.Schiro-Zavela@ noaa.gov or fax +1 -3O1-713-2032,

Contributions for future issues of the CEOS Newsletter from the CEOS Members, Observers and Affiliates, and subscriptions to the CEOS Newsletter, please contact; 

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or Ms. Kazuko Misawa at :       misawa@rd.tksc.nasda.go.jp
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