Welcome!
Earth Observation Training, Education,
and Capacity Development Network
ASIA OCEANIA REGION COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
FLOODS WORKING GROUP
16 January 2025
Today’s agenda
Time (UTC) | Agenda item | Presenter/Moderator |
04:00 | Welcome | CM Bhatt |
04:05 | Introductions | All participants |
04:10 | Spotlight presentation
| Martin Gauch, Google Flood Hub (recorded) |
04:40 | Global leadership, Secretariat updates
| EOTEC DevNet Secretariat |
04:50 | Open discussion:
| CM Bhatt All participants |
05:00 | Membership updates | CM Bhatt All participants |
05:05 | Upcoming opportunities and trainings
| EOTEC DevNet Secretariat |
05:10 | Next meeting, other next steps, and thanks | CM Bhatt |
05:15 | Conclusion | |
Spotlight presentation
Google Flood Hub: Latest updates and geographic coverage
Global and Secretariat Updates
EOTEC Year in Review
2024 Benchmarks: the network is steadily growing
Sample statistics | 2023 | 2024 | Change (%) |
People engaged in the network | 600 | 1350 | +125% |
LinkedIn followers | 123 | 1154 | +838% |
X followers | 276 | 401 | +45% |
Average views/website post | 807 | 3,147 | +290% |
800
ACTIVE USERS
Flood tools tracker
Aug-Nov 2024
EOTEC 2024 Benchmarks
CoP quarterly meeting attendance increasing in most cases
6
CoP Task Team Attendance, 2022-24
CoP Floods WG Attendance, 2022-24
Open discussion
Proposed EOTEC Plans for 2025
Delivering more network impact
Aims:
In practice:
Proposed EOTEC Plans for 2025
EOTEC 2024 member survey inputs to date (14 responses)
To complete the survey, follow the link below. We’d love your feedback!
EOTEC Dev Net End of Year Survey
https://eotecdev.net/eforms/eotec-devnet-2024-member-survey/19/
RECOMMENDATION:
INCREASE MEETING INTERACTIVITY
Proposed EOTEC Plans for 2025
Feedback requested: Help us strengthen these plans
Question 1: What are good ways to increase meeting interactivity?
Question 2: What suggestions do you have for webinar topics?
Engage with us on social media
Engagement in-between meetings
Ways to interact online
Connect with global colleagues on our member platform
https://eotecdev.net/connect/
Volunteer for an ad hoc team, e.g., to help plan a webinar
secretariat@eotecdev.net
Join our
WhatsApp group
Member updates�What are you working on? Share updates on your activities…!
Upcoming opportunities
Call to action�Role of EO in Mapping and Forecasting Natural Disasters
EO College conducting this work with the support of the European Space Agency (last chance to express your interest!)
https://eotecdev.net/call-to-action-role-of-eo-in-mapping-and-forecasting-natural-disasters/
Opportunities and resources
SAMPLE OF TRAINING AND CONFERENCES | |
ISRSE-40 - New Professionals Forum, March 17, 2025, Farborough UK, In English, | ESA-NASA International Workshop on AI Foundation Model for EO, 5-7 May 2025 | ESA-ESRIN | Frascati, Italy, Abstracts due 31 January |
IGARSS 2025 - Call for Abstracts, 3-8 August 2025, Brisbane, Australia (in person) Abstracts due 17 January 2025 | Supporting Marine EO Applications: Self-paced and online, 23 Feb-20 March |
GEO Global Forum, 5-9 May 2025, Rome, Italy (in person), in English
Register and create an account to apply EO College Introduction to Machine Learning for Earth Observation, online, self-paced Global Platform For Disaster Risk Reduction: 2-6 June 2025, in-person, Geneva, Switzerland | |
Upcoming IIRS courses - updates at cssteapun.org
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Upcoming ISPRS events - more info coming:
| ESA’s Living Planet Symposium 2025, 23-27 June 2025, Vienna, Austria (Registration in April) 10th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM10), May 20-22, 2026, London, Ontario, Canada, Abstracts due 28 February |
New Resource! UNDRR - Global Status of Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (2024) | 10th International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM), 22-24 February, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Opportunities and resources
PLACES TO FIND TRAINING | |
IIRS Website: https://elearning.iirs.gov.in/ | |
World Climate Research Programme catalog: wcrp-academy.org/catalog | International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing calendar of training events: https://www.isprs.org/calendar/2025.aspx |
CEOS Training Calendar: training.ceos.org CEOS Earth Observation Handbook 2023: ceos.org/news/eohb-2023/ | NASA ARSET: bit.ly/3Fh7ERe NASA’s Transform to Open Science curriculum: https://nasa.github.io/Transform-to-Open-Science/ |
UN-SPIDER Events Calendar: bit.ly/3LjKHk0 | |
GEO Events Calendar: https://earthobservations.org/events Global Flood Partnership Resources: https://www.globalfloodpartnership.org/resources | 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/ |
Summary and next steps
Tentative schedule of meetings
Thank you for being part of the EOTEC community of practice.
See you online!