SDCG-8 Stephen Ward reached out to Steven on the possibility of CNES contributing multiple years of SPOT data for Kenya in support of developing a model national system for forest MRV applications, thus providing a good demonstration for COP. Steven Hosford to coordinate with Steven reported that he has had no further SDCG EXEC on potential SDCG and SDCG-7-12 discussions around this. He is working on the GFOI outcomes to include in any assumption we would process the available CEOS presence at COP-21. Kenya archive and this could be integrated into the Data Cube that the SEO is developing. As discussed in Sydney, as this is a small contribution on the French side, it is unlikely that the French delegation will be able to promote it at COP21. CNES continue to look for contributions that could promote SWH and GFOI at COP21 via the French delegation. ONGOING SDCG, in consultation with the Sylvia has sent a listing/map of HR monitoring Capacity Building component and and verification SilvaCarbon sites to the SDCG Sec. SDCG-7-13 Kenya to advise CNES on priority locations and dates for SPOT reprocessing. Steven Hosford has had no communications from anyone on requirements of zones in Kenya or elsewhere. Erik Lindquist to confirm with Brian Killough whether FAO would be able to ONGOING host a Kenya data cube on their AWS SDCG-7-14 infrastructure in the event that Kenya The SEO sent a request to FAO via email on wishes to use the prototype Brian is May 9th. No response has been received. developing operationally. COMPLETE Brian Killough to confirm whether an SDCG-7-15 updated RapidEye API is available. Not ready until late 2015. Ake Rosenqvist to work with Brian Killough on including the ALOS archive SDCG-7-16 COMPLETE in the country coverage assessment and COVE tools. Yves Crevier to work with Brian Killough on including the RADARSAT-1 SDCG-7-17 COMPLETE archive in the country coverage assessment and COVE tools. Brian Killough to follow up Erik Lindquist for feedback on the archive SDCG-7-18 COMPLETE assessment tools his group are developing.
SDCG-7-12 Steven Hosford to coordinate with SDCG EXEC on potential SDCG and GFOI outcomes to include in any CEOS presence at COP-21. SDCG-8 Stephen Ward reached out to Steven on the possibility of CNES contributing multiple years of SPOT data for Kenya in support of developing a model national system for forest MRV applications, thus providing a good demonstration for COP. Steven reported that he has had no further discussions around this. He is working on the assumption we would process the available Kenya archive and this could be integrated into the Data Cube that the SEO is developing. As discussed in Sydney, as this is a small contribution on the French side, it is unlikely that the French delegation will be able to promote it at COP21. CNES continue to look for contributions that could promote SWH and GFOI at COP21 via the French delegation. SDCG-7-13 SDCG, in consultation with the Capacity Building component and Kenya to advise CNES on priority locations and dates for SPOT reprocessing. ONGOING Sylvia has sent a listing/map of HR monitoring and verification SilvaCarbon sites to the SDCG Sec. Steven Hosford has had no communications from anyone on requirements of zones in Kenya or elsewhere. SDCG-7-14 Erik Lindquist to confirm with Brian Killough whether FAO would be able to host a Kenya data cube on their AWS infrastructure in the event that Kenya wishes to use the prototype Brian is developing operationally. ONGOING The SEO sent a request to FAO via email on May 9th. No response has been received. SDCG-7-15 Brian Killough to confirm whether an updated RapidEye API is available. COMPLETE Not ready until late 2015. SDCG-7-16 Ake Rosenqvist to work with Brian Killough on including the ALOS archive in the country coverage assessment and COVE tools. COMPLETE SDCG-7-17 Yves Crevier to work with Brian Killough on including the RADARSAT-1 archive in the country coverage assessment and COVE tools. COMPLETE SDCG-7-18 Brian Killough to follow up Erik Lindquist for feedback on the archive assessment tools his group are developing. COMPLETE
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