Protea Hotel Sea Point
Arthurs Road, Sea Point
Cape Town
8005
South Africa
| 1 | OPENING AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
| 2 | SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL WORKSHOP |
| 3 | OPENING OF THE SESSION |
| 3.1 | Introduction by the Chairperson |
| 3.2 | Adoption of the agenda |
| 3.3 | Working arrangements |
| 4 | REPORTS FROM THE CHAIRPERSON, VICE CHAIRPERSONS AND THE EXECUTIVE BOARD |
| 5 | REPORT FROM THE TECHNICAL CO-ORDINATOR |
| 6 | REPORTS FROM THE TASK TEAMS |
| 6.1 | Capacity-Building Task Team |
| 6.2 | Data Management Task Team |
| 6.3 | Quality Management Task Team |
| 6.4 | Technology Developments Task Team |
| 6.5 | Moored Buoys Task Team |
| 7 | PILOT PROJECTS |
| 7.1 | Iridium Pilot Project |
| 7.2 | PMT Pilot Project |
| 7.3 | Wave observing technology developments |
| 8 | REPORTS FROM THE ACTION GROUPS |
| 8.1 | E-SURFMAR |
| 8.2 | GDP |
| 8.3 | IABP |
| 8.4 | IBPIO |
| 8.5 | IPAB |
| 8.6 | ISABP |
| 8.7 | NPDBAP |
| 8.8 | OceanSITES |
| 8.9 | TIP |
| 9 | INTERNATIONAL TSUNAMETER PARTNERSHIP |
| 10 | ISSUES FOR THE PANEL |
| 10.1 | Information Exchange |
| 10.2 | Deployment opportunities and strategies |
| 10.3 | GTS delays |
| 10.4 | Vandalism |
| 10.5 | Metadata |
| 10.6 | Technological developments in support of user requirements |
| 10.7 | Instrument Best Practices |
| 10.8 | Other issues to be discussed, as proposed by the Task Teams |
| 11 | INFORMATION REPORTS |
| 11.1 | Argo |
| 11.2 | Buoy data management centres |
| 11.3 | Argos operations and developments |
| 11.4 | Iridium operations and developments |
| 11.5 | Additional reports to be presented, as required |
| 12 | ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES |
| 12.1 | JCOMM activities |
| 12.2 | IOC Strategic planning |
| 12.3 | WMO Strategic planning |
| 12.4 | Development of the OPSC |
| 12.5 | GOOS / GCOS Ocean Observing Panel for Climate (OOPC) |
| 12.6 | WMO Integrated Global Observing Systems (WIGOS) |
| 12.7 | Financial situation |
| 13 | REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE EXECUTIVE BOARD SESSION |
| 13.1 | DBCP implementation strategy |
| 13.10 | Recommendations |
| 13.11 | Discussion and agreement by the Panel on agenda items 13.1 to 13.10 |
| 13.2 | New Action Groups |
| 13.3 | Operating principles |
| 13.4 | Contracts |
| 13.5 | Employment of the TC |
| 13.6 | Workplan, budget and priorities for the next year |
| 13.7 | Work priorities for the TC |
| 13.8 | Future commitments and the future OPSC |
| 13.9 | Format of future sessions |
| 14 | ELECTION OF THE CHAIRPERSON AND VICE-CHAIRPERSONS OF THE PANEL |
| 15 | DATE AND PLACE OF THE NEXT SESSION |
| 16 | NATIONAL REPORTS |
| 17 | ADOPTION OF THE SESSION REPORT |
| 18 | CLOSURE OF THE SESSION |