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WGISS Response to WGISS Response to GEO/CEOS-SITGEO/CEOS-SIT

Ken McDonald

WGISS/Vice-Chair

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Recent WGISS ActionsRecent WGISS Actions

• At WGISS-21– Discussed possible reorganization– Reviewed “WGISS Tasks” and assigned POCs– Developed plan for GEO coordination

• Since WGISS-21– Developed preliminary list of potential WGISS

contributions to GEO tasks

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WGISS-21 Summary of WGISS-21 Summary of GEO DiscussionsGEO Discussions

• At WGISS-21, conclusion was that at the present time, reorganization is not necessary.

• “WGISS” POCs could fit in current structure:– SGs, Task Teams or WTFs. – Either existing or new TT / WTFs

• Overall coordination:– WGISS Vice-Chair nominated (Ken McDonald, NASA) as WGISS GEO

Coordinator– Shall manage WGISS response to all requests coming from CEOS:

activity monitoring, reporting to CEOS WGISS, interface with “WGISS” POCs,..

– WGISS Chair (Ivan Petiteville) reports on WGISS GEO activities and status to CEOS Plenary and SIT.

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WGISS-21 GEO ActionWGISS-21 GEO Action

• Task Teams (TT) to link their activities to the GEO 2006 WP (9 “WGISS”, then 33 “ADC” Tasks eventually to all 96 tasks.)

• Leaders to identify TT’s current & future activities that are related to GEO 2006 WP

• For each identified GEO 2006 task, nominations of the “WGISS” POCs (end of June 2006)

• Detailed proposal of contribution per GEO tasks to be proposed by “WGISS” POC to GEO Task POC

• Once agreed at GEO Task level, start to work

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WGISS Response to GEO ActionWGISS Response to GEO Action

• WGISS-All requested to review GEO 2006 Work Plan and Task List

• Subgroup and Task Team Leads, working with team members, identified possible WGISS contributions to GEO tasks

• Consolidated list of potential contributions and proposed WGISS point(s) of contact

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Highlights of Potential Highlights of Potential WGISS ContributionsWGISS Contributions

• International Directory Network (IDN)– Comprehensive, operational data and service discovery

• Interoperable Catalog Systems– Interoperability Handbook

• WTF - Science and Applications Support– Water Resources - WTF-CEOP– Disaster Response - WTF-Disasters

• Emerging Technologies– GRID– Service Oriented Architectures

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Primary GEO AreasPrimary GEO Areas• Societal Benefit - Water and Disasters

– WTFs provide model for applying WGISS technologies to actual projects and applications.

• Transverse Areas - Architecture and Data Management– WGISS technology and services task teams offer practical

experience in technology development, reuse and infusion.– Technologies focus on data discovery and access,

distributed data system architectures, data integration and resource sharing.

• Constellation Concept– WGISS experience with distributed data systems could play

important role in virtual observing system concept.

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Plan for WGISS-22Plan for WGISS-22• During SG/TT Sessions:

– Continue discussion on how task team activities do or could relate to GEO tasks

• In Thursday’s GEO Session:– Status update on GEO initiatives– Refine list of potential contributions and named

single WGISS point of contact– Update list to address GEO 2007-9 Work Plan

and other initiatives (e.g. Constellations)– Discuss resources to make the contributions

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Questions, Discussion?Questions, Discussion?