Strategy Outlook for the Federation

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• Strategy Outlook for the Federation
• 2007 2009
• Gerardo Suárez and Torild van Eck

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Do not re-invent the wheel!
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Consolidation

• Membership
• Update names of institutions and individual
  contacts
• Encourage Web-page subscription from all members
• Contact less active members and encourage
  their participation in Working Groups and
  Meetings of FDSN

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Consolidation (2)

• Station List
• Update station list under the new format of WG-1.
  Target date for next update (July 2008)
• Define the category of Backbone Stations
• Update the list of FDSN stations as a regular
  exercise (once a year)
• Aim at efficient coordination with ISC/NEIC
  station list.

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Consolidation (3)

• Representation
• Continue promoting the FDSN as a coordinator of
  global digital networks and representation at
  GEO.
• IASPEI Maintain close contact with IASPEI
  Leadership
• GEO(SS) Continue collaboration and
  participation in GEO meetings (Domenico in
  Geneva Rhett in DI-06-02 task and Executive
  Committee as needed)
• CTBT Continue to remind CTBT signatories the
  desire of FDSN to make all data open and fully
  accessible to the scientific community
• ISC Collaboration and exchange of information

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Consolidation (4)

• Working groups
• Recruit new blood in the working groups
• Involve, where possible, existing regional groups
  
• Rejuvenate WG3 (software)
• Rejuvenate WG5 (mobile networks)

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Future Developments

• Membership
• Implementing regional coordinators.
• Encourage potential new members, particularly but
  not solely, from Central and South America,
  Africa, Middle East and Southeast Asia to apply
• Actively recruit new people and members to
  participate in the Working Groups, Regional
  Meetings and Plenaries
• Promote global coordination of (passive) mobile
  networks deployments and data availability.

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Future Developments (2)

• Coverage and Backbone Stations
• Improve coverage (Africa, South America, etc)
• Use the support of the newly defined Regional
  Coordinators to urge potential members to
  volunteer their stations to the FDSN backbone
• Improve OBS coverage by integrating existing and
  future stations in the oceans. This involves
  involvement of groups deploying OBSs.

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Future Developments (3)

• CTBT
• Identify primary and secondary stations in CTBT
  network that would fill important gaps in
  coverage
• Follow a two-pronged approach to encourage
  members to make the stations available to FDSN
• Continued Communication with Governing Bodies
• Approach individual countries and request their
  participation in FDSN (Niger is an example)

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Future Developments (4)

• Network Products and tools
• Carefully review potential new avenues to have a
  broad coordination of developments and
  deployments of services and tools
• Review possible new standards for data exchange
  and services.
• (Discussions underway in revised WG-3)

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Future Meetings of FDSN

• Plenary Meeting IASPEI meeting in South Africa
  (January 2009)
• Formulate a new long-term vision with targets
  (a.o.)
• Regional Meetings
• Search opportunities to join meetings organized
  by other institutions and organizations
• Caribbean-Central American Meeting in
  collaboration with IRIS?
• Other suggestions by members