1. AR 06-02 Produce practical strategic and tactical guidance document on how to converge disparate systems to a higher degree of collaboration and interoperability under GEOSS including its roadmap and using existing efforts wherever possible. Current Status Although the task AR-06-02 has not been formally initiated as of June 23, 2006, the WMO input has been received and the task sheet has been updated. Draft Preparation WMO, Japan

2. A plan of Agriculture Topic A system of Systems alignment with FAO 2005-2006 2007-2010 2011-2014 In-situ observation Satellite observation Integration Data Model Socio- economic Land cover mapping of 1:500,000 Use of geo sat data in food insecure region Land cover mapping for 1:250,000 Initiate work to enable Statistics to a pixel level Establish role of sat data in agriculture Continuity of high-resolution imagery Operational linkage of environmental information data to statitics in pixel base Socio-economic data converted to pixel a results of “a system of systems” Land cover mapping of 1:1,000,000 A map of irrigated agriculture area Fine grid data of monitoring of weather (precipitation and so on) In-Situ observation Network Modeling Based map development system for integrating many kind of information on pixel level Establish of fine grid data of weather (precipitation and so on) Meso-scale model for seasonally, monthly, weekly predicting for precipitation, air temperature and so on) Soil and terrain database of 1:1,000,000 Land use mapping for 1:500,000 INWEPF Field observation and investigation of crop growth and production database of irrigated agriculture area, water availability, land degradation, forest conversion) On-time monitoring and information systems for significant events (drought, flood and so on) Development of early warning systems for drought, flood and so on IRRI, FACE