Submitted by ISRadmin on Thu, 07/18/2013 - 13:39
Meeting on Soil Data for GEOSS sub-task US-09-03c
The e-SOTER partners ISRIC and JRC have drafted a sub-task sheet for the GEOSS workplan, focussing on a global soil information system. They realize that other global and regional organizations that collect or provide soil data are needed to materialize the huge task described in the sùb-task. As a first step in this process a meeting in Prague on 24-25
Organizations that will attend include: GEO Secretariat, GlobalSoilMap.net node leaders, e-SOTER project partners, FAO and dedicated FP7 digital soil mapping research projects (Digisoil and iSoil).
Draft Agenda
Venue: Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamycka 129, 16521 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic
Thursday 24 September
14:00-14:30 General introduction (e-SOTER project)
14:30-15:00 The role of GEOS (GEO Secretariat)
15:00-16:00 Status of global soil observation (….)
16:00-16:15 Break
16:15-18:00 Potential contributions from partner organizations (all)
Friday 25 September
09:00-11:00 Workplan (all)
11:15-12:30 Workplan (continued)
12:30-13:00 Conclusions and wrap-up