14th Asia-Oceania Meteorological Satellite Users' Conference
02-07 December 2024, New Delhi, India

Overview

The Asia-Oceania Meteorological Satellite Users' Conference (AOMSUC-14), hosted by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), will be held as a face-to-face only event from 2nd to 7th December 2024 in New Delhi, India.

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Background

The conference will include high-quality oral and poster presentations as well as panel discussions that address topical issues such as the utilization of satellite data in reception, processing, dissemination, product generation, weather analysis, nowcasting and forecasting, climate and environmental monitoring, numerical weather data assimilation, prediction, and disaster monitoring. All oral presentations will be in person, and selected presentations will be available for real-time remote viewing. Both oral and poster presentations are to be uploaded to the conference organizers prior to the conference (date and procedure to follow in the second announcement). All presentations and panel discussions will be recorded for information sharing and persevering contributions.

In 2010, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (AuBoM), the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) organized the first Asia-Oceania Meteorological Satellite Users' Conference in Beijing, China. Since then, the AOMSUC have been held annually in China (2010, 2014, 2021), Japan (2011, 2015, 2022), Korea (2012, 2016, 2023), Australia (2013, 2019), Russia (2017), and Indonesia (2018). The 14th Conference is being held in New Delhi during 02-07 December 2024.

In June 2016 the Permanent Representation of Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Russia Federation, and the Republic of Korea, together with the Secretary-General of WMO, signed the Memorandum on the Asia-Oceania Meteorological Satellite Users' Conference during the sixty-eight session of the WMO Executive Council in Geneva.

The 2016 Memorandum formalized the AOMSUC as a permanent mechanism for facilitating dialogue and improved collaboration among the space agencies and user communities in the Asia-Oceania region and for enhancing the use of satellites for weather, climate, and disaster mitigation services.

Over the past decade, the AOMSUC has become the premier annual event for the meteorological and broad earth sciences community across Asia-Oceania, where satellite operators, users, scientists, and students from Asia-Oceania and across the globe come to share their findings and plans for the use of meteorological satellite data.

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The Major goals of the AOMSUC conferences

1. Promoting the importance of satellite observations and highlighting their utility;
2. Advancing satellite remote sensing science by enabling information exchange between scientists from the Asia/Oceania region and focusing on regional issues;
3. Providing a means for satellite operators to interact directly with the user community with respect to current and future satellite related activities and plans and respond to the requirements of those users;
4. Informing community about the current status and future plan of international space programs;
5. Harmonizing unified and optimal usage of all types of satellite and other meteorological and environmental data and information;
6. Innovating new technology and science to invest in and develop future weather satellite sensing capabilities; and
7. Engaging young scientist entering the field.