Happy New Year!
Earth Observation Training, Education,
and Capacity Development Network
ASIA OCEANIA REGION COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
FLOODS WORKING GROUP
18 January 2024
Today’s agenda
Time (UTC) | Agenda item | Presenter/moderator |
04:00 | Welcome | CM Bhatt |
04:05 | Introductions | All participants |
04:10 | 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. | EOTEC DevNet Secretariat All participants |
04:30 | Spotlight presentation (recorded): 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 (USA) |
04:50 | Global and Secretariat updates | EOTEC DevNet Secretariat |
05:00 | Upcoming opportunities | Secretariat, participants |
05:10 | Next meeting, other next steps, and thanks | CM Bhatt |
05:15 | Conclusion | |
Discussion:
What are some of your priorities for 2024?
Secretariat input
EOTEC DevNet Plans and Priorities
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Spotlight presentation
Insights and lessons learned on the use of EO data during 2023 Pakistan flooding
Dr William Straka
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
(recorded)
Global and Secretariat updates
Floods working group updates
2024 Flood Tools Tracker improvements
Flood tools tracker improvements planned for 2024 - feedback wanted!
Please add new tools/capacity building resources and let us know if existing ones need updating
https://eotec-dev.ceos.org/
Establishing of Drought Working Groups�Drought Tools Matrix and IDMP collaboration
**Please review and add resources**
Secretariat updates
Needs assessment guidance in process
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Upcoming opportunities
Opportunities and resources
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: https://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: https://www.un-spider.org/news-and-events/events/un-spider-bonn-international-conference-space-based-solutions-disaster-0 |
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. https://www.agu.org/waterscicon 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: https://www.egu24.eu/ |
| COSPAR 2024, July 13-21 2024, Busan, South Korea: https://www.cospar2024.org/ |
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/ |
Opportunities and resources
PLACES TO FIND TRAINING | |
**New** World Climate Research Programme catalog: wcrp-academy.org/catalog | |
CENTRE FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: www.cssteapun.org. **New course brochure** https://www.cssteapun.org/upload/announcement/Final_28th_RSGIS_Course_Announcement_Brochure_(New).pdf | |
CEOS Training Calendar: training.ceos.org | NASA ARSET: bit.ly/3Fh7ERe |
UN-SPIDER Events Calendar: bit.ly/3LjKHk0 | ESRI resources: esri.com/training/ |
GEO Events Calendar: https://earthobservations.org/events | EO College: eo-college.org |
EUMETSAT training catalogue: catalog.trainhub.eumetsat.int | UN CC: e-Learn (climate change, green and circular economy |
WMO Global Campus: learningevents.wmo.int/#/ | WMO-CGMS VLab: wmo-sat.info/vlab/vlab-training-calendar/ |
Summary and next steps
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