GEO Spain - GEO España

Un instrumento para la coordinación de la participación nacional en GEO-GEOSS:La refundación

Salon de actos18:30 26 Enero 2012

Agenda para hoy

Historia

• INM (actualmente AEMet) ya se organizó internamente como GEO Spain in 2005 para coordinar su participación en GEOSS

• They actively participate in GEO Committees and tasks (e.g. Architecture and Data Committee and Capacity Building Committee). – We have to see how AEMet participation will be

redistributed in the new GEO structure.

EGIDA

The EGIDA Methodology consolidates the EGIDA project

experience for future use by defining a general

methodological approach which can be adopted by

national/regional S&T communities such as GEO Spain

GEOSS – Spain could combine:Regional/National Scenario: A

national project that aims to deploy a national/regional infrastructure for

GEO/GEOSS to generate.

National GEO Scenario: A central group that coordinates efforts on

capacity building at national/regional considering

relevant supranational and global initiatives.

• The 7th framework

program project

“Coordinating Earth

and Environmental

cross-disciplinary

projects to promote

GEOSS” (EGIDA) will

coordinate and

cooperate with national

agencies and existing

research projects and

will provide network

methodologies.

• CREAF is EGIDA

partner and will

facilitate the

implementation of the

EGIDA methodology in

Spain.

Dual approach

GEOSpain

Bottom-up

Top down

Spain is one of the 86 countries that are part of the Group on Earth ObservationsAEMet (the Spanish Meteorological Office) is the principal representative

for GEOSS in Spain and they actively participate in GEO Committees and tasks (e.g. Architecture and Data Committee and Capacity Building Committee).

The European Commission is actively funding European Research projects to develop GEOSS using innovative conceptual frameworks and technologies.

Encuesta

• Las preguntas:

1. Do you have some need to find other Spanish organizations involved in GEOSS?

2. Do you thing that such contact could be simplified if there is a GEOSS-Spain group?

3. Do you consider that a GEOSS-Spain group will be helpful for you/your organization?

4. Would you be interested in joining the GEOSS-Spain group?

5. Do you have time to push it forward?• Las respuestas

– Mainly, ~90% of the interviewees consider that GEOSS-Spain could help their organizations to find other similar organizations and strengthen relations amongst them and that also could simplify and improve their current activities and engage no-members of GEOSS.

– 30% of the interviewees are interested enough to willing to invest time in the initiative.

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100%

1. Do you have some need to find

other Spanish organizations involved in GEOSS?

2. Do you thing that

such contact could be

simplified if there is a GEOSS-

Spain group?

3. Do you consider that a GEOSS-

Spain group will be helpful for you/your

organization?

4. Would you be interested in joining the

GEOSS-Spain group?

5. Do you have time to

push it forward?

Questionnaire to evaluate interest on GEOSS-Spain initiative

NO

YES

CREAF activities so far:

• Official Spanish representatives in GEOSS were contacted to explore the possibility of creating a permanent GEOSS-Spain network formed by both national administration bodies and relevant research initiatives.

• CREAF prepared a questionnaire based on 5 simple questions. – 14 interviews were done so far by phone to public,

private organizations and universities from 9 different European funded projects (EARLINETASOS, EuroSITES, ENVIROGRIDS, EuroGEOSS, ECOOP, GeoViQua, GFG2, HEREPLUS, and HERMIONE)

• La organización de esta reunión

Objetivos

• Coordinar esfuerzos entre– Agencias nacionales (principalmente AEMet)– Comunidad científica nacional

• Evitar esfuerzos redundantes• Coordinar la participación en GEO Boards (los comités de antes),

Components and Tasks• Asistir a productores de datos españoles a aportar su información a

GEOSS.• Comunicar los beneficios de GEOSS para los usuarios y

productores de datos de observación de la tierra• Disponer de un foro en español sobre temas relacionados con

GEOSS (eliminar la barrera idiomática)• Articular financiación nacional y europea para proyectos GEOSS• Asistir al mantenimiento de las iniciativas actuales (sustainability)

¿Qué necesitamos?

• Un documento fundacional (a charter)• Una lista de miembros fundadores (charter members)• Comunicar al GEO Secretariat nuestra existencia• Una web– CREAF puede proporcionar una web en formato

“wiki” para facilitar una creación compartida de contenidos

• Una lista de e-mail– CREAF puede proporcionar una lista de

distribución– Un sistema de teleconferencias– GEO Sec dispone de webex / CREAF

GoToMeeting

Instrumentos de coordinación

• Email– Distribuir información sobre próximas reuniones

GEO-GEOSS– Distribuir información sobre proyectos (de

investigación y desarrollo) sobre GEOSS• Teleconferencias

– Antes de las reuniones GEO para preparar la participación de los miembros

– Semiregulares cada 3 meses• Web/wiki

– Ganar visibilidad de nuestras actividades

Puntos importantes del documento fundacional• Reflejar los diversos tipos de miembros

– “GEO principal” (AEMet) – productores de datos de observación de la tierra– investigación y desarrollo – usuarios de datos observación de la tierra

• Indicar la preferencia de AEMet en la representación estatal. Dotar GEOSpain de la capacidad de nombrar representantes directamente

• 2 chairs: – un representante de AEMet– un representante de I+D

• Indicar la lista de objetivos i actividades iniciales

Relation con iniciativas similares

• Decidir el nivel de coordinación que queremos tener con:– RNOT: Red Nacional de Observación de la Tierra

(National network for Earth Observation).– OGC Iberian an Latin-American Forum: ILAF– Infraestructura de datos espaciales de España

Lista de miembros fundadores

• AEMet• CREAF