1. CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services, WGISS-24, Oberpfaffenhofen, Oct. 15 - 19, 2007 GFZ Representative Report Bernd Ritschel, GFZ ISDC Team head rit@gfz-potsdam.de The Electronic Geophysical Year *Slides are provided by eGY member

2. CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services, WGISS-24, Oberpfaffenhofen, Oct. 15 - 19, 2007 Projects related to WGISS remote –CHAMP (multi-domain mission) –GRACE (multi-domain mission) –GPS-PDR (geodesy) –GASP (GPS) (atmosphere/ionosphere) –TerraSAR-X (multi-domain mission) –GGSP (Galileo?) in-situ –GGP (gravity data)

3. CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services, WGISS-24, Oberpfaffenhofen, Oct. 15 - 19, 2007

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5. CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services, WGISS-24, Oberpfaffenhofen, Oct. 15 - 19, 2007 ISDC and GFZ ISDC is even smaller group now, only 2 persons with support from System and DB administrator New head of the Geodesy and Remote Sensing department (coming from university) New director of the GFZ (coming from a technical university) –Interested in more transparency –Common data policy within the GFZ –New mechanism for funding of IT infrastructure –Improvement of long-term archive facilities – … but new requirements are coming from everybody

6. CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services, WGISS-24, Oberpfaffenhofen, Oct. 15 - 19, 2007 Challenges Sustainable funding of human, technology and technical resources for operational data and information services Developing/Using of standards for sustainable data and information management at the GFZ Realizing of a high available (long-term) archive system for data, information and knowledge Education campaign for scientists related to ESSI 1 ESSI 1 must become important research domain within German geoscience environment 1 Earth and Space Science Informatics

7. CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services, WGISS-24, Oberpfaffenhofen, Oct. 15 - 19, 2007 Digital Earth Summit on Geoinformatics: Tools for Global Change Research Potsdam/Berlin (Germany), 12-14 November 2008 Hosted by GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Topics: –Visualization, Simulation and modeling techniques –Earth observation programs and applications –Geospatial data integration, 3D modeling –Natural hazards, Extreme events, Water resources, Urbanization –Spatial data infrastructure developments –Social and political impacts of climate change –Supercomputers for global change research –Data exchange models, Regional and local case studies European Geoinformatics Workshop 2008, GFZ Potsdam