Acknowledgement to EOGEO Hungary by CEOS WGISS

Acknowledgement to EOGEO Hungary Foundation and HUNAGI for their excellent performance organising the 21st Meeting of the WGISS held in Budapest
Ivan Petiteville of ESA ESRIN, Chair of the CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services expressed his appreciation to Viktor Pusztai, President EOGEO Hungary Foundation and his team for the excellent organisation of the CEOS Meeting hosted by Hungary between 8-12 May, 2006. (EOGEO Hungary Foundation www.eogeo.hu is member of HUNAGI www.hunagi.hu since 2005)
The CEOSS bi-annual meeting and the embedded workshop devoted to the Hungarian Activities in Remote Sensing gave excellent opportunity for the representatives of the international Earth Observation community to meet competent persons like Dr. E.Both, Director of the Hungarian Space Research Office, Dr. S. Mihály, Director General of FÖMI and Deputy State Secretary Dr. N. Berczi of MoARD and the Workshop's high quality Hungarian speakers selected by HUNAGI. For further details, please see the relevant posts devoted to the event on this blog in May.
Mr. I.Petiteville is Co-Chair of the GEO Architecture and Data Committee and CEOS Representative too.
Based on the presentation of the Hungarian Secretary of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure G.Remetey-Fülöpp, Mr.Petiteville offered cooperation between CEOS WGISS and GSDI for Prof. Harlan Onsrud, President of GSDI. It was suggested to establish a role of liasion and this position has been offered to Gábor with a proposal to identify in the GEO 2007-2009 Work Plan to be undertaken jointly by the two professional community.