ConnectinGEO Workshop
Observing Europe: Networking the Earth Observation Networks in Europe
September 21-22, 2015, Paris, France

First Workshop of the European Network of Earth Observation Networks (ENEON)


Scope | Deadlines | Venue | Logistics | Committees | Participation | Output | Abstracts | Registration | Accommodation | Sessions | Schedule | Program

Adding Value through Collaboration and Coordination: There are many in situ networks in Europe, and European institutions are involved in numerous global networks. Fragmentation of efforts hinders a full exploitation of the integrated observations. The goal is to increase coordination and collaboration between networks, the processing, and the generation and dissemination of products to better serve the growing societal needs for environmental intelligence.

WORKSHOP SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

The Workshop will explore the benefits and options of constituting a European Network of Earth observation Networks that encompasses current networks in Europe in single entity. The ENEON will be a forum for discussing gaps in the EO networks and proposing concrete solutions to the European Commission in terms of completeness but also for ensuring continuity of critical infrastructures both in-situ and space based. It will also serve as a coordination point for the European contribution to GEOSS in the matter of in-situ networks and to encourage the alignment of a transversal set Essential Variables GEO is currently advocating.

The Objectives of the workshop are to:

  • Learn more about the main current Earth Observation networks in Europe;
  • Review previous umbrella initiatives;
  • Know more about the scales and frequencies of data collection and gaps in data acquisition, sharing, and products;
  • Clarify the need for ENEON and identify potential overlaps with similar initiatives;
  • Develop a strategy to setup a sustainable network of networks.

QUESTIONS TO BE ADDRESSED BY SPEAKERS

The speakers are asked to give an overview of the status of their network and its potential linkages to higher level coordination and collaboration networks. All speakers should address the same set of questions to get a coherent overview of the status. These question include:

Introduction of the network:

  1. What network are you representing and what is your role in this network?
  2. What are the main objectives of the network?
  3. Who are the main contributors to your network?
  4. What form of commitment do you have for the maintainance your network?
  5. How large is your user base and who are your users?
  6. Do you maintain a database of user needs and observational requirements?
  7. What are the costs and efforts of maintaining the network?
  8. What are your main funding sources?
  9. What are the key issues for sustainability of your network running?

About data:

  1. What observations does your network collect and what products are produced?
  2. What are the spatial and temporal characteristics and limits of your network?
  3. How is the data archived and made accessible to users?
  4. Do you address data quality in some way?
  5. Are there risk for data continuity and how are data preservation and network continuity addressed?
  6. What are the conditions (licenses) for sharing your data and products with users?
  7. What key interface standards are used in making data and products available?
  8. Are there known observational requirements that your network is not meeting?
  9. Are there observations that are needed but not captured by your network or by other networks that you have access to or products that are not generated?

About a network of networks:

  1. What coordination and collaboration interfaces do you have with other networks?
  2. Is you network contributing to GEO(SS) and if so, what is this contribution? Could ConnectinGEO help to enhance your contribution to GEOSS?
  3. Are there additional interfaces that would be desired and what would be the main benefits of these interfaces?
  4. Do you think that your network could benefit from the existence of an ENEON or a similar network?
  5. From you point of view, how should an ENEON be organized and managed?

OUTPUT

The high-level output of the workshop will be a peer reviewed document on describing the ENEON. The Workshop output will also contribute in more detail to a deliverable of the ConnectinGEO project:

  • D3.1: ENEON methodology for management and coordination and first plenary Workshop minutes: The report on the ENEON plenary Workshop (WS2) will gather the minutes and all the information regarding the plenary. The workshops will also be used to build a collection of frameworks and best practices across domains and stakeholders that will be collected in this deliverable. The deliverable also describes the new aspect about ENEON methodology for management and coordination. It is important to differentiate this deliverable from the deliverable “D6.1 ConnectinGEO methodology,” which deals with the gap analysis and priorities, and which uses the ENEON know-how as input.

The output will also include proposed Terms of Reference for the ENEON and a list of potential ENEON members.

SESSION OVERVIEW

The program will include a sequence of plenary sessions focusing on various aspects of the ENEON and a review of existing EO networks in Europe. A round table discussion will elaborate the potential benefits and roles of ENEON.


PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE

PROGRAM

Note that minor changes in the program may still happen due to late changes in speaker availability.

Speakers are asked to use the presentation template to be made available here as pptx. They are also asked to address the questions listed below the program.

The rooms for the workshop are V115 and V116.


Monday, September 21, 2015

0830 - 0900:Registration
0900 - 0940:Session 1: Welcome and Introduction (Chairs: Joan Masó and Thierry Ranchin)
0900 - 0910Thiery Ranchin (MINES Paris Tech): Welcome and Opening Remarks (pptx)
0910 - 0920Joan Maso and Ivette Serral (CREAF): The ConnectinGEO project (pptx)
0920 - 0930Ian McCallum (IIASA): ENEON (pptx)
0930 - 1050:Session 2: Goals, objectives, benefits and impacts (Chairs: Ivette Serral, Hans-Peter Plag)
0930 - 0950Barbara Ryan (GEO Secretariat): How ENEON should collaborate with and be included in GEO (pptx)
0950 - 1010Michel Schouppe (EC): The European GEOSS context for ENEON (ppt)
1010 - 1030Werner Kutsch (ENVRI+ Coordinator): The ENVRI+ Approach to networking (pptx)
1030 - 1050Jan Hendrik Voet (IRCEL): The Copernicus cross-cutting in situ component (pptx)
1050 - 1100Ivette Serral (CREAF) and Hans-Peter Plag (TIWAH): Workshop objectives and anticipated outcomes (pptx)
1100 - 1125:Coffee Break
1125 - 1315:Session 3: European Earth Observation Networks: Needs for coordination and collaboration regarding the detection of gaps and redundancies in GEOSS. (Chair: Joan Maso)
1125 - 1150Werner Kutsch (ICOS): ICOS: Integrated Carbon Observation System (pptx)
1150 - 1215J. Notholt (presented by Martine de Maziere): TCCON: Total Carbon Column Observing Network (pptx)
1215 - 1240Martine de Maziere: NDACC: Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Changes (pptx)
1240 - 1310Geir Ole Braathen: How does the World Meteorological Organization manage and exploit its observational networks? (pptx)
1310 - 1410:Lunch
1410 - 1540:Session 3 continued (Chair: Martine de Maziere)
1410 - 1440Stefano Nativi: GEOSS Infrastructure for Earth Observation Networks (pptx)
1440 - 1505Simon Wilson: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) (pptx)
1505 - 1535Wolfgang Grabs: Hydrological networks (pptx)
1535 - 1605Carine Bruyninx: EPN: EUREF Permanent Network and EUREF (pptx)
1605 - 1625:Coffee Break
1625 - 1815:Session 3 continued (Chair: Emili Garcia Ladona)
1625 - 1645Eric Petermann: EUMETNET (pdf)
1645 - 1715Begoña Perez: EuroGOOS (pptx)
1715 - 1735Thomas Loubrieu: SEADATANET (Pan-European Infrastructure for Ocean and Marine Data Management) (pdf) and EUROARGO (pdf)
1735 - 1755 Wenche Aas: EMEP, ACTRIS (European Research Infrastructure for the observation of Aerosol, Clouds, and Trace gases) and atmospheric measurement activities of OSPARCOM and HELCOM (pptx)
1755 - 1815Arne J. Berre: European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) (pptx)
2000 - 2200:Social Dinner (no host)

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

0830 - 0900:Registration
0900 - 0945:Session 4: Summary presentations from rapporteurs (Chairs: Ian McCallum, Hans-Peter Plag)
0900 - 0915Rapporteur 1 (Ian McCallumn): Summary of key issues for sustainable EO networks in Europe (question block 1) (pptx)
0915 - 0930Rapporteur 2 (Antonio Bombelli): Summary of data availability, sharing, and gaps (question block 2) (pptx)
0930 - 0945Rapporteur 3 (Hans-Peter Plag): Summary of existing collaboration mechanisms, experience and lessons from the efforts (question block 3) (keynote, pdf)
0945 - 1105:Session 5: Engaging participation in ENEON: Lessons Learned (Chair: Palma Blonda)
0945 - 1020Michael Mirtl: Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER): overcoming fragmentation, lack of coordination, and duplication (pdf)
1020 - 1100Lucy Bastin: Linking service infrastructure: Lessons learnt from DOPA: Digital Observatory for Protected Areas
1100 - 1130Jan Hendrick Voet: EIONET: European Environment Information and Observation Network (pptx)
1130 - 1145:Coffee Break
1145 - 1220Geoff Sawyer: Collaboration between Industry and European Networks (ppt)
1220 - 1300:Session 6: Toward enhanced coordination and collaboration (Chair: Hans-Peter Plag)
1220 - 1245Hans-Peter Plag, Palma Blonda, Werner Kutsch, Jan Hendrick Voet, Geoff Sawyer: Panel statements on enhancing coordination and collaboration across disciplines and sectors
1245 - 1315Hans-Peter Plag: The GEO Knowledge Base and Gap Analyses (keynote, pdf)
1315 - 1400:Lunch
1400 - 1430Palma Blonda: Defining user needs and essential variables to support GEOSS objectives (pptx)
1430 - 1600:Session 7: Refine goals, objectives and benefits of ENEON (Chair: Joan Maso)
1430 - 1440Hans-Peter Plag: Benefits of a European Earth Observation Network of Networks
1440 - 1500Ian McCallum: Draft goals, objectives and benefits of ENEON
1500 - 1530All (Moderator: Joan Maso): Round table: Goals, Objectives, and Benefits of ENEON
1530 - 1535Moderator: Summary of Round Table outcomes
1535 - 1610:Coffee Break
1610 - 1720:Session 8: Organization and management of ENEON (Chairs: Hans-Peter Plag, Jay Pearlman)
1610 - 1640Hans-Peter Plag: Draft organization, ToR, and membership of ENEON (keynotes, pdf)
1640 - 1700Paola Campus (remote presentation): Thoughts on a funding cycle for ENEON (pdf)
1620 - 1630Joan Maso: Coordination of ENEON with similar initiatives, including ENVRI Plus (pptx)
1630 - 1710All (Moderator: tbd): Discussion: ENEON organization, management and membership
1710 - 1720Hans-Peter Plag: Summary and revised ToR for ENEON
1720 - 1800:Session 9: Summary Session: A roadmap for ENEON (Chairs: Ivette Serral, Hans-Peter Plag)
1720 - 1735Ivette Serral: ENEON definition, criteria, processes (pptx)
1735 - 1745Hans-Peter Plag: Steps towards the implementation of ENEON
1745- 1800Joan Masó and Thierry Ranchin: Concluding remarks

QUESTIONS TO BE ADDRESSED BY SPEAKERS

The speakers are asked to give an overview of the status of their network and its potential linkages to higher level coordination and collaboration networks. All speakers should address the same set of questions to get a coherent overview of the status. These question include:

Introduction of the network:

  1. What network are you representing and what is your role in this network?
  2. What are the main objectives of the network?
  3. Who are the main contributors to your network?
  4. What form of commitment do you have for the maintainance your network?
  5. How large is your user base and who are your users?
  6. Do you maintain a database of user needs and observational requirements?
  7. What are the costs and efforts of maintaining the network?
  8. What are your main funding sources?
  9. What are the key issues for sustainability of your network running?

About data:

  1. What observations does your network collect and what products are produced?
  2. What are the spatial and temporal characteristics and limits of your network?
  3. How is the data archived and made accessible to users?
  4. Do you address data quality in some way?
  5. Are there risk for data continuity and how are data preservation and network continuity addressed?
  6. What are the conditions (licenses) for sharing your data and products with users?
  7. What key interface standards are used in making data and products available?
  8. Are there known observational requirements that your network is not meeting?
  9. Are there observations that are needed but not captured by your network or by other networks that you have access to or products that are not generated?

About a network of networks:

  1. What coordination and collaboration interfaces do you have with other networks?
  2. Is you network contributing to GEO(SS) and if so, what is this contribution? Could ConnectinGEO help to enhance your contribution to GEOSS?
  3. Are there additional interfaces that would be desired and what would be the main benefits of these interfaces?
  4. Do you think that your network could benefit from the existence of an ENEON or a similar network?
  5. From you point of view, how should an ENEON be organized and managed?

SCHEDULE

Overview September 21-24, 2015

Date
TimeActivity
Monday, September 21, 2015
08:30-09:00Registration
09:00-09:40Session 1: Welcome and Introduction
09:40-11:00Session 2: Goals, objectives, benefits and impacts
11:00-11:20Coffee Break
11:00-13:00Session 3: European Earth Observation Networks: Needs for coordination and collaboration regarding the detection of gaps and redundancies in GEOSS.
13:00-14:00Lunch
14:00-15:30Session 3 continued
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-18:00Session 3 continued
19:00-21:00Joint Dinner (no host)
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
08:30-09:00Registration
09:00-09:45Session 4: Summary presentations from rapporteurs
09:45-11:00Session 5: Identifying gaps and understanding the needs for enhanced coordination and collaboration
11:00 - 11:20Coffee Break
11:00-13:00Session 6: Engaging participation in ENEON
13:00-14:00Lunch
14:00-15:30Session 7: Refine goals, objectives and benefits - Round Table
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-17:20Session 8: Organization and management of ENEON
17:20-18:00Session 9: Summary Session: A roadmap for ENEON
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
09:00-18:00ConnectinGEO Project Meeting
Thursday, September 24, 2015
09:00-18:00ConnectinGEO Project meeting

PRACTICAL DETAILS

PARTICIPATION

The Workshop is open to representatives of European groups, networks, and services engaged in European or global earth observation activities, including the maintenance of in situ networks and value-adding processing of observations to provide advanced products and services.

DEADLINES

  • Registration deadline: September 1, 2015.

COMMITTEES

Program Committee:

  • CREAF. Joan Masó, Ivette Serral
  • ARMINES. Lionel Menard
  • TIWAH. Hans-Peter Plag, Shelley Jules-Plag
  • IIASA. Ian McCallum.
  • CMCC. Antonio Bombelli
  • CNR-ISSIA. Palma Blonda
  • IEEE. Jay Pearlman, Françoise Pearlman, Siri Jodha Khalsa, Steven F. Browdy
  • CISC. Emili García-Ladona
  • BIRA-IASB. Martine De Maziere
  • NILU. Kjetil Tørseth, Wenche As.
  • ARMINES. Lionel Menard, Lucien Wald
  • CMCC. Antonio Bombelli

Local Organizing Committee:

  • Joan Masó
  • Ivette Serral
  • Lionel MENARD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Support for the Workshop

The Workshop is organized as a Workshop of ConnectinGEO, a project which received funding from the European Union Framework Program for Research and Innovation (SC5-18a-2014) under grant agreement no. 641538.

The workshop is hosted by Mine ParisTech.

Tiwah supports the Workshop by hosting and maintaining the GSTSS.

Technical Advice and Support for the Workshop

 

The local organizing committee for the workshops is hosted by CREF, Barcelona.

ABSTRACTS

Speakers are not asked to submit abstracts for their presentations. However, those who would like to provide an abstract are invited to do so by sending the abstract to hpplag @ tiwah.com.

Speakers who are presenting a network are asked to use the presentation template. They are also asked to address the questions listed below to the extent possible.

QUESTIONS TO BE ADDRESSED BY SPEAKERS

The speakers are asked to give an overview of the status of their network and its potential linkages to higher level coordination and collaboration networks. All speakers should address the same set of questions to get a coherent overview of the status. These question include:

Introduction of the network:

  1. What network are you representing and what is your role in this network?
  2. What are the main objectives of the network?
  3. Who are the main contributors to your network?
  4. What form of commitment do you have for the maintainance your network?
  5. How large is your user base and who are your users?
  6. Do you maintain a database of user needs and observational requirements?
  7. What are the costs and efforts of maintaining the network?
  8. What are your main funding sources?
  9. What are the key issues for sustainability of your network running?

About data:

  1. What observations does your network collect and what products are produced?
  2. What are the spatial and temporal characteristics and limits of your network?
  3. How is the data archived and made accessible to users?
  4. Do you address data quality in some way?
  5. Are there risk for data continuity and how are data preservation and network continuity addressed?
  6. What are the conditions (licenses) for sharing your data and products with users?
  7. What key interface standards are used in making data and products available?
  8. Are there known observational requirements that your network is not meeting?
  9. Are there observations that are needed but not captured by your network or by other networks that you have access to or products that are not generated?

About a network of networks:

  1. What coordination and collaboration interfaces do you have with other networks?
  2. Is you network contributing to GEO(SS) and if so, what is this contribution? Could ConnectinGEO help to enhance your contribution to GEOSS?
  3. Are there additional interfaces that would be desired and what would be the main benefits of these interfaces?
  4. Do you think that your network could benefit from the existence of an ENEON or a similar network?
  5. From you point of view, how should an ENEON be organized and managed?

REGISTRATION

Pre-Registration is strongly recommended before September 1, 2015 to help the organizers in the planning of the event. To register, please complete and submit the registration form.

VENUE

The Workshop will take place at ARMINES Headquarters, MINES ParisTech, 60 Bd. St Michel, 75272 Paris Cedex 06.

The rooms for the workshop are V115 and V116.

LOGISTICS

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 Travel Logistics

Getting to Paris:

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 Climate and Weather

Nestled in the Paris Basin, situated midway between an oceanic climate to the west and a semi-continental climate to the east, Paris enjoys mild winters and relatively clement summers. September is mild with average low and high temperatures being 11oC and 21oC, respectively. The recorded extremes in September are 5oC and 32oC, respectively. See the most recent full ten-day forecast here.

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 Restaurants

There are many options for lunch and dinner close to the meeting venue. Here are a few suggestions:

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 Workshop Dinner

The no-host dinner on Monday, September 21, 2015 will take place at La Bastide Odéon, see http://bastideodeon.com/. See the menu. If you plan to participate, please confirm to Ivette Serral by email to ivette at creaf.uab.es.

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 What to do and visit in Paris?

No recommendations needed.  

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ACCOMMODATION

There are many hotels in the vicinity of the venu that can be booked through standard web services such as Hotels.com. An alternative is Air B&B.

The local organizers recommended two hotels in walking distance of the meeting venue:

These hotels are around 110 euros per night including breakfast. They are within walking distance from MINES Paris Tech building where the meetings will take place.