Time (UTC)

Agenda item

Presenter/moderator

16:00

Welcome

William Straka

16:05

Introduction of new co-lead: Álvaro Germán Soldano, Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE)

Álvaro Soldano

16:10

Introductions and member exchange: 2024 plans and priorities

What are you/your agency/institution working on in 2024? Please share a few sentences on any training, research or other activities. The Secretariat will kick off with EOTEC plans and then open the floor to all participants.

All participants

16:35

Spotlight presentation: Insights and lessons learned on the use of EO data during Pakistan’s devastating flooding

Dr William Straka

Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

16:55

Global leadership and Secretariat updates

Secretariat

17:05

Upcoming opportunities

Secretariat, participants

17:10

Next meeting, other next steps, and thanks

William Straka

17:15

Conclusion

SAMPLE OF TRAINING AND CONFERENCES

UNOOSA 6th Conference on the Use of Space Technology for Water, 7-10 May Management, Costa Rica (in-person and virtual). Apply for funding by January 24: https://t.co/6OqKccyEg2

Google Workshop: 5th annual Flood Forecasting Meets Machine Learning, Jan 22-23, virtual. Register here: bit.ly/3NbzYsb

3rd CEMS Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Meeting, 5-6 March, online

Open for submission of use cases: www.globalfloods.eu/news/151-3rd-cems-global-flood-forecasting-and-monitoring-annual-meeting-05-06-march-save-the-date/

UN-SPIDER Bonn International Conference on Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management - "Early Warnings for All", 12-14 March, Bonn, Germany, in person

Webinar: GEOGloWS Streamflow 2.0: Lessons Learned in Global Hydrological Modeling and Local Capacity Building

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ALFNtl-TlE

AGU’s Water Science Conference (WaterSciCon), 23-28 June, Minneapolis, USA, in-person. Abstract submission deadline January 24

Resource: NASA’s Transform to Open Science curriculum: https://nasa.github.io/Transform-to-Open-Science/

European Geophysical Union 2024: 14-19 April, Vienna, Austria, in-person and virtual.

Resource: CEOS Earth Observation Handbook 2023: ceos.org/news/eohb-2023/

Seminário Nacional de Fotogrametria e Sensoriamento Remoto no Ambiente Semiárido, 28-29 February, Recife, Brazil. In person: https://decartufpe.org/snfsras/

Resource: UNDRR Global Status of Multihazard Early Warning Systems 2023: https://bit.ly/3Ndybm6

2nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing in Meteorology METEO IRS 2024, 11-13 June, in person (Istanbul) and online

https://meteoirs.itu.edu.tr/2024/

PLACES TO FIND TRAINING

**New** World Climate Research Programme catalog: wcrp-academy.org/catalog

CEOS Training Calendar: training.ceos.org

NASA ARSET: bit.ly/3Fh7ERe

UN-SPIDER Events Calendar: bit.ly/3LjKHk0

ESA: eo4society.esa.int/training-education/

GEO Events Calendar: https://earthobservations.org/events

EO College: eo-college.org

EUMETSAT training catalogue: catalog.trainhub.eumetsat.int

UN CC: e-Learn: https://unccelearn.org/

WMO Global Campus: learningevents.wmo.int/#/

WMO-CGMS VLab: wmo-sat.info/vlab/vlab-training-calendar/