Kick-off meeting February 5-7, 2020

Wed. February 5

• 14:30 Opening and welcome address
• 14:45 Overview of COALA project: vision, mission, objective, expected outcomes and impactsCarlo De Michele & Guido D’Urso
• 15:30 Keynote 1: Capitalising the experience of twenty years of European research programs in Earth Observation for irrigation management and the Copernicus perspective
  Anna Osann (AGRISAT) & Alfonso Calera (UCLM) JRMCO and ANBIC
  
• 16:00 The COALA Consortium: partners’ presentations (10 min each, including: brief description of the organization, role and expectations in COALA< – The presentation follows the provided template)
• 17:40 Presentation of the Advisory Board and Project Officer
  Marie Weiss (Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique); Norman Mueller (Geoscience Australia); Brent Williams (Murray–Darling Basin Authority); Iulia Simion (Project Officer, Research Executive Agency, European Commission)
• 18:00WELCOME COCKTAIL

Tue. February 6

9:00 Keynote 2: Open Issues and Challenges for the irrigation management in the Murray Darling River basin and the opportunities in the Copernicus era

Graciela Metternicht, Univ. New South Wales with the contribution of Brent Williams (Advisory Board – Murray–Darling Basin Authority)

9:30 Work Packages Tour (20-30 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A)
WP1 Stakeholder Analysis and User’s requirements

AGRISAT (Leader) & Univ. New South Wales (Co-leader)

WP2 EO added value products and integration with other space or non-space inputs
ARIESPACE (Leader) & Univ. Melbourne (Co-leader)

11:00 COFFEE-BREAK

11:20 WP 3COALA enabling Platform and DIAS integration

Universitaet Fuer Bodenkultur Wien

Fri. February 7

9:00 FOCUS ON PLANNING OF ACTIVITIES – 1st Year (1 hour each):

1st round Table: Pilot areas: actors, stakeholders & actions. Q&A

Introduction by Dongryeol Ryu (UOM); Contribution by Anna Osann (AGRISAT), David David Aughton (RUBICON), Kate Finger (BCG). Participants: All partners

The objective of the first round table is to focus on the work pipeline and the interaction between WP1 and WP4. The output will be a shared roadmap for the first year of the project.

2nd Round Table: Technological deployment of COALA: Services and Platform. Q&A

Introduction by Francesco Vuolo (BOKU); Contribution by Guido D’Urso (ARIES), Alfonso Calera