GMES és GEOSS - helyszíni monitoring és a távérzékelés

GEOSS és európai összetevője a GMES
A címbeli brüsszeli megbeszélés előzetes programjára vonatkozó EARSC figyelemfelhívást dr. Both Előd MÜI igazgató javaslatára ezúton is közreadjuk:

"Integrating in-situ monitoring and remote sensing in the framework of
GMES and GEOSS"
Open cluster meeting Brussels, May 31st, 2007

Earth Monitoring is at a turning point world wide. The awareness of the
risks inherent to an uncontrolled development of human activities has led
to environmental protocols, to the setup of new partnerships, such as the
Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and the European GMES
initiative (Global Monitoring of Environment and Security), and the need
to develop synergies between existing capacities internationally. GMES has
already gathered substantial momentum through the actions of the European
Union and European Space Agencies and through the wide ranging
participation of European industry. The initiative encompasses in-situ,
airborne and spaceborne sensor deployment, ground infrastructures and data
processing, value added data production and interpretation, up to
extending aid for Environment and Security decision-making.

The last decade has seen huge progress in sensor network technologies:
small computers and sensors costing tens of euros, tiny operating systems
running in hundreds of bytes of memory, short-range radios consuming
minimal power, and multi-hop networks covering local areas. As sensor
network research continues, one trend is "bigger": more powerful
computers and sensors, higher-level operating systems services, mixes of
radio technologies, and wide-area networks connecting sensornets in global
deployments; another trend is "smaller" very cheap throw away sensors
(RFID and beyond). In the meantime, remote sensing is becoming
increasingly accurate and flexible, and these improvements are now in the
process of being successfully applied to high altitude platforms and UAV,
which present new and added possibilities for earth observation.

It is by now well accepted that the proper monitoring of our planet will
require the use of both in-situ and remote sensing techniques. While these
approaches are operationally very different, they have each an essential
role to play in any serious plan to monitor a site, region, country, or
the Earth as a whole. Unfortunately this synergy is neither yet realised
nor fully appreciated, in part because of the different technologies
involved and skills required to operate them, in part because of the
resilience of traditional working practices (resistance to change), in
part also because of arguments linked to training; to the need to
implement new tools and models, just to name a few.

The objectives of the workshop are:
* First: to bring together experts from the two sides to increase mutual
knowledge of their communities
* Second: to assess the above-mentioned trends in new applications *
Third: to explore the mechanisms of synergy between in-situ and RS and to
evaluate its impact.
* Fourth: to identify technical and non technical obstacles to the uptake
of the proposed solutions.

TARGET AUDIENCE: Industry, research centres, environment monitoring
agencies, space agencies

FORMAT: Round panels for discussion

VENUE: May 31st, 2007, Brussels

REGISTRATION: Expression of interest to be sent at EARSC
(secretariat@earsc.org)
-Organization
-Name
-Function
-Email
-Phone
-Cell
-Fax
-Address
-Country
-Website
ORGANISED:
-EC- DG INFSO (Information Society and Media Directorate-General)
-EARSC (European Association of Remote Sensing Companies)

SPONSORSHIP: For Industry Sponsorship Contact EARSC (secretariat@earsc.org)

TENTATIVE AGENDA

Technical state-of-the-art presentations by the following projects
focussing on the objective of the workshop. Each project listed below
should propose at least one short contribution in relation with its
project plan.

EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS:
OSIRIS: general architecture encompassing EO and in-situ, HAP,
SANY: sensorweb enablement; standards
WINSOC: advanced architecture, self healing self reconfiguring networks
DEWS: Tsunami detectors
WARMER: water monitoring networks
INTERRISK: marine sensors
EU-FIRE: acoustic sensor networks
SCIER: sensor fusion
STARRS: sensor for search and rescue operation
Dyvine: optical sensor video

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

The workshop will be organised in panel discussions followed by a round table

Discussion 1: Sensors and sensors integration (9:30-11:00)
-Architectures: OSIRIS
-Automated applications
-Technologies
-Sensor web: SANY
-R&D and Standards: INSPIRE,...
-Transition technologies: ad hoc networks, proxy sensors: INTERRISK

Discussion 2: Implementation (11:15-13:00)
-In-situ
-Mobile
-Airborne
-High Altitude
-Examples (Tsunami, Nuclear, Oceanography, Air/Water Pollution)

Discussion 3: Integration of in-situ and EO sensors: (14:15-16:00)
-Cooperating EO sensors (i.e; INDRA Study, GIN, SSF Study)
-Mapping the in-situ communities: EEA, EIONET,…
-Meteorology and air pollution, Meteorology and oceanography: Eumetnet,..
-Other applications: water management, risk management,...:
Fast Track: (In-Situ component, data sets,...)
GMES services: (i.e; Respond, Geoland…)
-National and regional programmes

ROUND TABLE: "Technology Roadmap: what's next": (16:00-17:30)
(Information at www.earsc.org)