The Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS) Partnership, which was established in June 1998, consists of 14 institutes including international organizations and the UN bodies. IGOS-P aims to realize efficient global observing activities by uniting both satellite and ground-based observing programs.
Since the agreements were reached to strengthen international cooperation on global observation at the G-8 Summit in June 2003
(Evian, France) and at the Earth Observation Summit in July 2003 (Washington DC, USA), there is a growing worldwide interest in global observation. At the Earth Observation Summit, an inter-governmental working group on earth observation was set up to formulate ten-year implementation plans for structuring future earth observing systems. Possible agreements on the framework of the implementation plans at the Second Earth Observation Summit in Tokyo in April this year, and on the implementation plans at the Third Earth Observation Summit in Europe at the end of this year are now under discussion.
Based upon these discussions, an international workshop is to be held together with IGOS Partnership organizations, international earth observing institutes (space and ocean observing bodies), related government ministries and agencies, other research organizations, and users to discuss the IGOS’s ten-year implementation plan as follows:
* In advance of this workshop, two other workshops, Asia Workshop on Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) program and Workshop on the Satellite Utilization for Water Cycle in Asia, will be held at the same venue.
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