5th adc meeting

14.8 J. Pearlman presented the status of DA-06-02, Data Quality Assurance Strategy
Phase 1 is to develop strategies: to determine key elements, required activities and tasks.

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  Major concepts and key elements of the data quality assurance strategy were developed and approved at WGCV29 Plenary.
  
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  Data Quality Assurance Strategy Draft generated by group of experts as agreed at the WGCV29 Plenary.
  
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  Quality Assurance Framework for Earth Observation (QA4EO) - draft document outlining the strategy reviewed and revisions suggested at the GEO/CEOS CalVal Workshop May 6-8, 2008.
  
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  The next version of the QA4EO Draft will be discussed/approved by the CEOS/WGCV community at the WGCV29 Plenary, 30 September 2008.
  
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  The accomplishments up-to-date would allow Phase 1 to be completed at the end of September, 2008
  

Phase 2 is implementation – initiated in 2007, to test and further develop the QA4EO, WGCV has initiated a number of test projects

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  Project 1, Fundamental Climate Data Records (FCDR)
  
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  Project 2, Benchmark Mission Planning
  
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  Project 3, CEOS/WGCV Joint Experiment
  

The technical working subgroups of CEOS/WGCV are developing field specific quality assurance guidelines. Accomplishments to date are on track for an early Phase 2 completion (late 2010 or early 2011)

The CEOS Cal/Val Portal has completed one year of operations and it now contains: Terms and Definitions, Sites, WTF products available, In situ Database, Tools, QA4EO and Documentation.
It was recommended that the Guideline document should be submitted to the GEO community for information guidance document.