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Third Earth Observation Summit To Be Held In Europe In 2005
Brussels - Mar 10, 2004 Speaking at the third plenary meeting of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), EC Research Director-General and GEO Co-Chair, Achilleas Mitsos, announced that the European Union will host the third Earth Observation (EO) Summit in February 2005 in Brussels. Making the world a better place to live in means understanding global environmental and economic challenges. The goal of the EO Summits is to improve coordination of EO strategies and research, with a view to moving toward a comprehensive and sustained EO system or systems. They also look to coordinate efforts in developing countries, improving and sustaining their contributions to observing systems, as well as their access to, and effective utilisation of, data and products. The GEO was set up at the first EO Summit in Washington in July 2003, with the primary goal of developing a 10-year Implementation Plan for a system or systems of comprehensive world EO coverage, now referred to as the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). The second EO Summit will be held in Tokyo in April 2004. With the third EO Summit now set to take place in Brussels, the EU will have its chance to shine as a leader in the EO arena.
GEO progress The Subgroups are also developing detailed content guidelines for the plan in the form of the 'GEO Report to EO Summit II', which it will deliver at the second EO Summit in Tokyo. Together, the Framework Document and the GEO Report to the next Summit will provide the roadmap for the creation of the Plan itself.
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New Legislation Initiated To Support Commercial Remote Sensing Industry
New York NY (SPX) Jan 11, 2006The importance of remotely sensed data and technologies to support natural disasters has prompted attention and action in Washington. New initiatives and legislation authorizing appropriations to the remote sensing industry will be discussed at Strategic Research Institute's U.S. Commercial Remote Sensing Industry conference, scheduled for February 9-10, 2006 in Washington D.C. |
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