Questions to be addressed during the breakout sessions:

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Questions to be addressed during the breakout
sessions
User-related issues - Who are the stakeholders
(operator, tourists, insurances ...)? - What are
the planning issues related to sustainability? -
What are the risk management issues? - Who needs
which information?
Data-related issues - How to achieve integration
of data sets - How to ensure quality,
interoperability, standards? - How to preserve
data, particular those collected in projects?
Earth observation - What baseline data sets are
needed for which application? - What monitoring
is required? - What resolution (spatial and
temporal) is needed for which parameter? - Who
should collect and analyze the data (3rd party
versus new capacity)? - What conditions for data
access are acceptable?
Collecting the information and bringing it to
where it is needed - How to communicate user
needs? - How to involve users in the development
of user interfaces and services? - Is a regional
Community of Practice a way to go? - How to build
capacity in using/utilizing the information
derived from EO.
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What do we want the breakout groups to do?
Discuss their themes B1 Natural hazards
Increasing the safety of tourism in the
Caribbean through observations and early
warning B2 Ecosystems, and biodiversity
Increasing benefits for sustainable
tourism and reducing impacts B3 Long-term
planning Trends, economic challenges, and
climate change B4 Linking providers and
users decision support systems and
organizational aspects Consider the questions
raised today Report to the Plenary - identify a
rapporteur for Session 4 - prepare a
presentation that can be understood by someone
not in the breakout session - identify and
propose pilot activities and/or projects -
contribute to the workshop output (WS report,
targeted reports).