1. GEOSS, IEEE Committee on Earth Observation, & Renewable Energy Community of Practice
Jay Pearlman, Chair, ICEO
Ellsworth LeDrew, Chair, CEO User Interface Working Group
Thierry Ranchin, Co-chair, Renewable Energy Community of Practice
Marion Schroedter-Homscheidt, Co-chair, Renewable Energy Community of Practice,
Mark Ahlstrom, Co-Chair, GEOSS Wind Energy Community of Practice

2. Agenda IEEE CEO (ICEO) Membership / Structure
ICEO Program and Direction
Wind Energy Community of Practice
Solar Energy Community of Practice
Agencies in Partnership
ESA
NASA ?
Where we want to go.

3. IEEE Committee on Earth Observation
IEEE CEO
J Pearlman
Executive Committee
User Interface
Architecture & Data
Outreach & Capacity
Science & Technology
E LeDrew
L Wu
R Garello
W Ottichilo
A Williams
A Gasiewski
Wind Energy CP
Renewable Energy CP
Standards & Interoperability
M Ahlstrom
C Hasager
Y Yuping
M Schroedter
T Ranchin
SJS Khalsa

4. CEO Programs and Directions
Participation in GEO
The User and the GEOSS Workshops
Conference Sessions and Presentations
IEEE evolution

5. Participation in GEO
A focal point for technical and engineering expertise
Architecture
Co-Chair of Architecture and Data Committee
Formulation of Standards and Interoperability Forum
System of Systems Engineering
User Interface
Wind Energy Community of Practice
Renewable Energy Community of Practice
Capacity Building
Initial focus on developing countries

6. The User and the GEOSS Workshops
Focal point for outreach and for architecture
Excellent participation on the part of GEO
China – Dr. Zheng, Prof Koike, Dr. D’Iorio, etc.
Workshops and themes
Korea, ‘05: disasters and agriculture IGARSS 05
South Africa, ‘05: disasters and water/drought AfricaGIS 05
China, 22 May : wind energy and resource mgt FIEOS 06
France 8 July: renewable energy & water mgt ISEIM 06
US 30 July: air quality and climate IGARSS 06
India 26 Sept: health ISPRS TCIV
Chile Nov: Geospatial

7. RECP M. Ahlstrom, WindLogics Inc., USA C. Hasager, RISOE
E. LeDrew, IEEE, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
P. P. Mathieu, ESA
J. Pearlman, IEEE, Boeing, USA
T. Ranchin, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France
M. Schroedter-Homscheidt, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany

8. The objective of the Renewable Energy Community of Practise (RECP) is to support GEOSS outcomes related to the application of Earth Observation data for renewable energies
Relevant areas are:
- Siting of power plants and facilities including environmental and sociological issues
- Optimized design of power systems and facilities
- Yield estimation and resource monitoring based on historic information
- Yield forecast based on near real time weather and forecasting
- Integration into existing energy supply, e.g. grid & utility system integration
- Operation and management of power plants incl. automatic failure detection
- Trading and monitoring of power and environmental credits
- Environmental monitoring of impacts
- Life cycle considerations
- Economic analyses

9. The Renewable Energy CP will look for members from:
- end users of EO based information services
- national and international industry associations
- value adders which provide (partly EO based) information services to end users
- national and international energy organisations/programme
- research and development in universities, research centers and industries

10. Plan of activities
Create working groups on the different renewable energies, identify members and communities, ensure a broad representation
Identify existing and anticipated user requirements for the different renewable energies.
Identify the present status and gaps in meeting the above requirements, particularly for Earth Observation data, information and systems.
Make recommendations how to fulfil requirements and to close gaps.
Identify and describe relevant projects including pilot or demonstration projects.
Identify synergies between the different renewable energy communities.
Document requirements and recommendations
Conduct user workshops and user surveys
Disseminate GEOSS potential and best practice examples
Provide information on standardisation (metadata, protocols, databases,..)
Recommendation on incubation projects

11. Wind Energy Working Group Membership (Status 05/ 2006)
North and South America
Mark Ahlstrom (Co-chair), CEO, WindLogics Inc. (& IEEE Power Engineering Society) , mobile: , St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Charlie Smith, Utility Wind Integration Group , USA
Ellsworth LeDrew, University of Waterloo X 2884, Canada
Bruce Angle, Meteorological Service of Canada, Canada
Alexandre de Lemos Pereira, Brazilian Wind Energy Center (CBEE), Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife Ç PE, Brazil, phone
Europa and Africa
Charlotte Bay Hasager (Co-chair), Risø National Laboratory, Wind Energy Department, (fax 5970), Roskilde, Denmark
Pierre-Philippe Mathieu, European Space Agency (ESRIN – EOP/SE), Frascati, , Rome, Italy
Ignacio Marti Perez, Renewable Energies National Center (CENER) Sarriguren, Navarra, , Spain
Usama Usama Said, New and Renewable Energy Authority, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, phone , fax
Susanne Lehner, German Aerospace Centre, DLR, Marine Remote Sensing, Oberpfaffenhofen, Tel (0)
Vladimir Nikolaev, Research and Information Center ‘ATMOGRAPH’, Moscow, , Russia, Tel/fax +007/ ,
Asia and Australia
Yuping Yan (Co-chair), National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, 46 Zhongguancun Nandajie,Haidian District, Beijing,100081, China, Tel ,  ,Fax ,
Venkat Sundaram, India Wind Energy Association, India
Qin Haiyan, Chinese Wind Energy Association,
Hyun-Goo Kim, Korean Institute of Energy Research, Wind Energy Research Center, 71-2 Jang-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon , Korea (fax 3543)
Gregory Ayers, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Castray Esplanade, Hobart, Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia, Tel (+61 3) ,
International organisations
EWEA: European Wind Energy Association
Frans Van Hulle, EWEA, , Brussels, Belgium
IEA: International Energy Agency
Ana Estanqueiro, IEA, Portugal
Other interested parties:
Guy Duchossois, GEO,
General assistance:
Jay Pearlman, Chief Technologist, Boeing , Seattle, Washington, USA

12. Solar Energy Working Group Membership (Status 08/ 2006)
North and South America
David Renne, NREL (Co-Chair), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado USA, ,
Anne-Marie Valton, Environment Canada, Terrasses La Chaudière, 10, Wellington Gatineau (Québec), K1A 0H3,  ,
Richard Perez, address?
Frederik Morse,
Europa and Africa
Marion Schroedter-Homscheidt, (Co-Chair), Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, , Germany
Lucien Wald, Centre Energetique et Procedes, Ecole des Mines de Paris / Armines / CNRS (FRE 2861) BP 207, F Sophia Antipolis cedex, +33- (0)
Hans-Georg Beyer, Institut für Elektrotechnik, Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (FH), Breitscheidstrasse 2, D Magdeburg, ,
Richard Meyer, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, , Germany
Detlev Heinemann, Universität Oldenburg,
Emilio Simeone, Flyby, via Puini 97, Int. 26, Livorno, Italy,
Eusébio Z.E. Conceição, FCMA, University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, Faro, Portugal,
Manuala J.R. Lúcio, Regional Directory of Education of Algarve, Sítio das Figuras, EN 125, Faro, Portugal,
Asia and Australia
International organisations
European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA)
Michel Viaud, Secretary General, Rue d’Arlon 63-65, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium, , (proposed)
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
Mark Radka, Tour Mirabeau,39-43 quai André Citroën, Paris Cedex 15, +33 (1) ,
European Commission – DG Joint Research Centre
Marcel Suri, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Renewables Energies Unit, Via E. Fermi 1, TP 450, I Ispra (VA), Italy,

13. Ocean Energy Working Group Membership (Status 08/ 2006)
North and South America
Europa and Africa
Thierry Ranchin, Ecole des Mines de Paris (ENSMP), Sophia Antipolis, , France
Han Wensink, (Co-Chair), ARGOSS, PT Marknesse, , The Netherlands
Michel Paillard, (to be confimed) IFREMER, Brest, +33 (0) , France
Antonio Sarmento (to be confirmed), Technical University of Lisbon +???, Portugal
Asia and Australia
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International organisations
Other interested parties:
European Ocean Energy Association
Alla Weinstein (Co-Chair confirmed ???), President of EU-OEA

14. Wind Energy Community of Practice
Charlotte Bay Hasager, Risø
Mark Ahlstrom, WindLogics/IEEE
Yuping Yan, China Meteorological Administration
Marion Schroedter-Homscheidt, (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen
Thierry Ranchin, Ecole des Mines (Renewables CP)

15. Objectives – Wind Energy CP
Support GEOSS outcomes related to application of EO data toward valuable wind energy results:
Siting
Forecasting
Integration
Operations
Wind energy community: users of the energy, weather & climate components of the GEOSS effort

16. Societal Benefit Why Wind Energy Now?
Wind is fastest growing source of energy in the world today
Huge potential in both developed and developing countries
Dramatic benefit in improved siting, energy varies with cube of wind speed
Improved forecasting crucial to utility integration and operations

17. Justification
Improved wind energy understanding requires disparate information that go beyond existing collaborative activities:
Weather data archives for site modeling
Weather forecasting in all timeframes
Boundary layer meteorology
Climate analysis and long-term variability
Extreme event analysis and temporal change
GIS, land use data, surface roughness data

18. Offshore Wind Energy EO-based wave statistics
to support design of vessels
for operations & maintenance
Active remote sensing
for resource assessment
Scatterometer
Coarse Resolution (O(25)km)
Good temporal frequency
Long-term archive
BUT does not work close to coast where wind farms are built
Synthetic Aperture Radar
High Resolution (O(150)m)
BUT Low temporal revisit
Archive (mainly ERS, ENVISAT, RADARSAT)
Need to combine EO sources, but better used to get the spatial variability rather than magnitude
What is the availability of wind farms? Can I send a vessel to repair? Why kind of vessels? Should I invest in maintenance or more turbines?
Courtesy ARGOS (NL) & BMT (UK)

19. Onshore Wind Energy
EO-based roughness & Digital
Elevation Model for wind modeling
Contributing to Enhanced Wind Energy Modeling Results
Courtesy ARMINES (FR)
Courtesy WindLogics (USA)

20. Adding to the Value Chain Information & Services
Raw EO data
Information & Services
End-User Application
Backscatter from
Synthetic Aperture Radar
Wind rose retrieved through
numerical model of boundary layer
Integration with ancillary data
Sources into user analysis
Aim to make the end-to-end EO value chain more effective by:
Delivering information services
Organising the supply (e.g. developing infrastructure)
Federating the demand (e.g. user-pull, not technology pushed)
E.g. integrate geoinformation into third party software and services used as standards in the wind industry

21. Wind Life Cycle / Data Needs
Courtesy Armines (Fr)
Data Requirements depend on the phase
Spans all time horizons:
Hindcast - archives
Nowcast - monitoring
Forecast - modelling

22. Wind energy can be the model for a broader Renewable Energy Community for GEOSS
Science
Services
Innovation
Algorithms
Feedback
Applications

23. Next Steps for RECP Series of small workshops (regional?)
Questionnaire, all RECP components
Develop an on-line registry
Specific questions for major planning workshop
What are the key questions
What is the existing technical capacity
What are the existing and required operational and technical support facilities
What do the users need in 5 and 10 years
What are the key metrics and milestones that we can address
What is the degree of precision and accuracy required for operational activities
Relationship of RECP to larger group here, and globally (IGOS?)