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Welcome!

Bienvenidos!

Bem Vindo!

Earth Observation Training, Education,

and Capacity Development Network

AMERICAS REGION COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

FLOODS WORKING GROUP

17 April 2024

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Today’s agenda

Time (UTC)	Agenda item	Presenter/moderator
16:00	Welcome	Álvaro Germán Soldano
16:05	Introductions	All participants
16:10	Spotlight presentation Innovations in hydrological predictions: GEOGLOWS Updates and Applications This presentation will cover capabilities of the upcoming new version of GEOGLOWS as well as uses of the tool in the region.	Jorge Luis Sanchez Brigham Young University
16:40	Membership updates Share your news on training, tools, and other resources	William Straka All participants
16:50	Global leadership and Secretariat updates Flood tools tracker survey, June 18 drought webinar and other developments…	EOTEC DevNet Secretariat
17:00	Upcoming opportunities	Secretariat, participants
17:10	Next meeting, other next steps, and thanks	William Straka
17:15	Conclusion

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Spotlight presentation

Innovations in hydrological predictions:

GEOGLOWS Updates and Applications

Dr. Jorge Luis Sanchez

Brigham Young University

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Member updates�What are you working on? Share updates on your activities…!

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Global and Secretariat updates

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Your opinions matter!

Help us improve Flood Tools Tracker 2.0

What’s new…

Ongoing update: Improving the look and user experience
Survey on user experience: Tell us what you like/don’t like, and how the flood tools tracker can be more useful

https://eotecdev.net/flood-tools-tracker-feedback-requested/

Development team meeting monthly

FIND THE TRACKER AND OTHER TOOLS AT https://eotecdev.net/tools/

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New feature on www.eotecdev.net�Photo of the week: Share your imagery!

**Upload your image to this form**

https://forms.gle/vBfSfN46wP7ND3936

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Toward establishing Drought Working Groups�Matrix update, UNCCD-EOTEC joint webinar June 18

**Reminder: Please review and add resources to our drought tools matrix**

Link here

Drought Tools Matrix update	June 7
UNCCD-EOTEC webinar	June 18
2nd webinar	Nov 2024
Working Group Meetings	2025

Next steps and timing

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More volunteers needed - join the team!

Guidance on EO needs assessment moving forward

Next steps and timing

FIND THE MATRIX ON THE TOOLS PAGE https://eotecdev.net/tools/

Summarize current resources and identify possible web formats	May 22
Synthesize best practices, recommendations and tips	June 19
Finalize content and publish	Sept 4

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UN-SPIDER International Conference March 12-14�New report: Space-technologies for early warning systems

Available on www.un-spider.org
Highlights use of space-based data, products and services in early warning systems for hydrometeorological, geological, extraterrestrial, health, biological, environmental and coastal hazards
Includes 81 case studies and links to more than 350 websites
Contribution to the Sendai Framework and Early Warnings for All initiative
Target audience: governments, disaster management stakeholders and practitioners, and others

Coming soon: UN-SPIDER EOTEC webinars

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Website and member platform at www.eotecdev.net

200+ online members and growing!

HOW TO JOIN

Sign up for an account - prompts in the top right corner of home page
Watch for an email to confirm your membership.
Visit the Connect page to sign up for an online EOTEC task team or working group (or both!)
Post a question, comment, or link in any of the groups or your own member feed

SEE YOU ONLINE!

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Upcoming opportunities

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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).	CONIDA (Peru Space Agency) Mapaton 2024: 22 April, online
ISPRS/SELPER Brasi l : SELPER training (Nov 2-3) and ISPRS Symposium (Nov 4-8), in person, Belem, Brazil. Abstract deadline: April 26	ICT for Ag, 28-30 May, in 5 locations simultaneously (India, Kenya, Mexico, Philippines and USA, and online.
European Geophysical Union 2024: 14-19 April, Vienna, Austria, in-person and virtual. https://egu24.eu/	Global Digital Development Forum, 12-13 June, in person (Washington, D.C.) and virtual
HYR-SENSE: Hyperspectral and Thermal Remote Sensing for Environmental Justice, June 10-13, Colorado, Boulder, US (in-person) (applications by March 24)	AI for Good, 30-31 May, Geneva, Switzerland and virtual.
2nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing in Meteorology METEO IRS 2024, 11-13 June, in person (Istanbul) and online	44th International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2024, 11-15 July, 2024, Athens, Greece.
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.

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Opportunities and resources

PLACES TO FIND TRAINING
New resource: 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/2024.aspx
Digital Earth Africa: www.digitalearthafrica.org	EO Africa R+D Facility webinars on youtube: @eoafricardfacility3607
CEOS Training Calendar: training.ceos.org New resource: CEOS Earth Observation Handbook 2023: ceos.org/news/eohb-2023/	NASA ARSET: bit.ly/3Fh7ERe New resource: NASA’s Transform to Open Science curriculum: https://nasa.github.io/Transform-to-Open-Science/
UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal: www.un-spider.org and events page: bit.ly/3LjKHk0	ESA: eo4society.esa.int/training-education/
GEO Events Calendar: https://earthobservations.org/events	EO College: eo-college.org. New MOOC: Cubes and Clouds https://eo-college.org/courses/cubes-and-clouds/
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/
New resource: Environmental Satellite Training on COMET MetED: www.meted.ucar.edu

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Summary and next steps

CoP Task Team meeting: June 19, 16:00 UTC

Next Floods Working Group meeting: July 17, 16:00 UTC

Thank you for being part of the EOTEC community of practice.

See you online!

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