Report on the 6th meeting of the
CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS6)
Frascati Italy May 1998
Mike Clarke, CMIS, Canberra
WGISS is one of 2 working groups of Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). It meets twice yearly.
Its tasks include coordination of data management issues for major global
space and satellite agencies, and the extension of technology support
for data management into national and international projects that have a
focus on mapping and monitoring the earth.
A summary of the minutes is available here.
Highlights
NASDA (Mr Takashi Moriyama) took over as Chair for the next two years.
His main objectives are
WGISS Pilot projects plan
WGISS wants involvement in pilot projects. It was noted that WGISS needed
to become proactive, to address topics of importance to the
programmes of its funding agencies and to demonstrate its success in these
areas. It was felt that real applications systems that apply CEOS
tools are long overdue and that pilot projects are a good focus for outreach
efforts.
WGISS can only support a few IGOS projects and the Global Forest Cover
and Ocean Biology projects were felt to be the most suitable - and
possibly the Disaster project. Gerard Szejwach proposed that the IGBP Data
Integration Project also be investigated as a pilot project and this
was accepted.
WGISS Collaborative links
WGISS Outreach was a major discussion, noting that the aims were to promote
WGISS results and achieve a better understanding of the
context of WGISS results. A number of relevant organisations, including
ISPRS, ISO and CCSDS were reviewed.