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| Bob Chen and Greg Yetman CIESIN, Columbia University Chair and speaker of the Plenary on Thursday |
The XII Plenary and Ministerial Summit will be
held in Mexico City, between 9-13 November 2015 under the slogan „Observing
Earth to Benefit Society: Advocate, Engage and Deliver”.
As just circulated in a recent GEO leaflet, the
Group on Earth Observation (GEO ) the global, voluntaly intergovernmental
partnership has 97 member governments
and 87 Participating Organisation (including GSDI). GEO coordinative body
facilitates the sharing of data and
other knowledge derived from Earth Observations across a range of essential
benefit areas. It is establishing the Global Earth Observation System of
Systems (GEOSS) to enable and integrated understanding of this knowledge across
disciplines and to inform decisions at critical level. The Plenary and
Ministerial Summit has the following invitation message for the members and participating
organisations:
- - join to identif and deliver the
value of shared EO data,
- - provide tangible benefits to your
population
- - engage in shaping the future of
Earth observation.
Details: www.earthobservations.org
(I had the chance to have a breakfast with
Scientific Officer Dr. Douglas Cripe (responsible for benefit areas Water,
Oceans, Health, who participated the IGIT2015 in Székesfehérvár, Hungary in
January 2015), which gave excellent opportunity for exchange of information and
provide updates in bilateral GEO-Hungary relation as well (New Director on top
of HSO, accession of Hungary to ESA,
Sustainable Environment-related Office established at the State President, mentioning,
the appointed director Mr. Körösi in his former capacity as Ambssador to the UN
was Co-chairing the Working Group prepared the UN’s long-term Strategic Plan on
Sustainable Development). HUNAGI was asked to strengthen the information
dissemination in the Hungarian EO/GI community including decision makers.)
Although IDIP meeting is a closed one,
GSDI/HUNAGI representative was welcomed to take part and contribute. This will
be reported after the event.
Additional information on actions, events, opportunities:
The 4th International Conference on Agro-geoinformatics 2015
"IInformation for sustainable agriculture" Istanbul, 20-24 July, 2015 Sponsors include NASS, OGC, IEEE, GRSS, CAAS. Abstract submission date: April 1 (Az első három konferencia színhelyei Shanghai, Washington DC és Peking voltak)
Additional information on actions, events, opportunities:
The 4th International Conference on Agro-geoinformatics 2015
"IInformation for sustainable agriculture" Istanbul, 20-24 July, 2015 Sponsors include NASS, OGC, IEEE, GRSS, CAAS. Abstract submission date: April 1 (Az első három konferencia színhelyei Shanghai, Washington DC és Peking voltak)
