Copernicus MPP Hungary 2013

EUROGI Members Meeting, 12 December 2013

LOCATION: Room Darányi, Ministry of Rural Development, Budapest V. Kossuth tér 11, Budapest, Hungary

“GEOINFORMATION NETWORKS FOR SOCIETAL AND COMMERCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF COPERNICUS – Final workshop of the Market-Pull-Pack (MPP) executed by HUNAGI / Hungary – “

PROGRAMME                                                                        

08:30

Registration of participants

  Moderation:
09:00

First Block: Introductions – Keynotes                                                                                                                 

 Wolfgang Steinborn/MPP project manager, member EUROGI Management Committee
Welcome messages by the hosts:
– HUNAGI
– Ministry of Rural Development		 Zsolt Barkóczi, / President HUNAGI
Géza Poprády / State Secretary for Public Administration
09:15 Hungarian experiences in PECS* and our way towards ESA Előd Both / Head, Hungarian Space Office, Ministry of National Development
09:25 Hungarian space industry on the threshold to ESA – focus on Earth observation Pál Bárczy / President HunSpace
09:35 European messages:
– European Commission, DG Enterprise & Industry
– ESA
– EUROGI		 Silvo Žlebir / ENTR-G2 “COPERNICUS Services”
Giancarlo Filipazzo / ESA COPERNICUS Office
Bruce McCormack / President EUROGI
09:50 Introduction to COPERNICUS Land Services: products & quality assessment Barbraara Kosztra / Eionet ETC-SIA**
10:05 Keynotes:
How to use the Global Change Master Directory / IDN service as information resource and how to link with COPERNICUS / Sentinel data and services.		 Michael Moharan / NASA
10:25

Coffee Break
10:45 smeSpire Network: Benefits for Small & Medium-sized Enterprises
– connection of INSPIRE and COPERNICUS communities exemplified in Apulia		 Giacomo Martirano / Epsilon Italia SRL &
Paolo Manunta / Planetek Italia
11:15 Geoinformation as the key to COPERNICUS data and services application on urban level Ingo Von Stillfried / Geoinformation Management of the City of Dortmund
11:45 Sub-national Spatial Data Infrastructures and COPERNICUS: how the regional level in France could be instrumental to stimulate the use of the land service by local governments François Salgé / AFIGEO, vice-president EUROGI
12:15 Emerging issues in the societal context of disaster management using innovative geospatial initiatives and COPERNICUS Mauro Salvemini / AM&FM Italy, member EUROGI Management Committee
12:45

Lunch Break
14:00

Second Block: Country presentations – conclusions                                                                 Moderation:

 Bence Toronyi / Director General FÖMI, member HUNAGI Presidential Board
Scene setter: Local COPERNICUS application cases from Hungary:
– Ground deformation risk scenarios: an advanced assessment service for the
monitoring of riverbank instabilities
– Face to the Earth – Earth Observation solutions & developments- Country verification experience and potential application of COPERNICUS products
– WW Europa Challenge 2014: Sentinels for apps – opportunities for students & SMEs		 Balàzs Füsi / MFGIGyörk Fülöp, Péter Hargitai. Ildikó Szikszai-Szigeti / Geoadat Ltd.
Gergely Maucha/FÖMI Remote Sensing Center
Gabor Remetey / HUNAGI, Maria Brovelli / PoliMiComo, Patrick Hogan /NASA
15:30

Coffee Break

 
15:50 Presentations of survey results in Hungary Szabolcs Mihàly / HUNAGI
Simon Vrečar / EUROGI
16:40 Award ceremony for the best returned questionnaire and best practice ideas EUROGI, ESA
16:50 Conclusion / Outlook / Recommendations EUROGI, ESA, EC