Participating Organizations: SERTIT, ITHACA, UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER, USGS, DLR-ZKI, EC-DG ENTR, DLR-ZKI

Meeting Summary

The meeting opens with a welcome address from Guenter Strunz, head of the Geo-Risks and Civil Security department of the DLR Earth Observation Center which kindly hosts the IWG-SEM meeting. IWG-SEM chairman thanks DLR for their hospitality and the logistic organization.

• an update on IWG-SEM activities (new members, web-site) and related discussion, including review of the group vision and mission

• Emergency Mapping Guidelines: event specific chapter definition and drafting approach

• current status and way forward of the proposed technical solution to broadcast data/metadata of ongoing/past emergency activations (GeoRSS)

• Definition of IWG-SEM future activities and prioritarization

• chairmanship handover

The detailed meeting outcomes are here.