Tentative Agenda BSIM 2025

Dates: 14-15. October 2025

Location: Federal Ministry of Transport, Invalidenstraße 44, 10115 Berlin, Germany The ministry is in walking distance from the main train station and there are several hotels nearby.

There will be a possibility for remote participation, links will be made available before the meeting.

Please be aware that restrictions may be in effect for visit to Germany and access to the Ministry. This does not apply to participants from EU countries and Norway. We ask to register with an Email to ice@bsh.de at least 7 days before the meeting (later registration is possible with limitations).

Day 1, Tuesday, October 14^th

Time	Topic
10:00	Arrival, Registration
10:30	Welcome and meeting logistics
10:40	National presentations (20 minutes each) +Denmark +Estonia +Finland +Latvia
12:00	Lunch break
13:00	National presentations (continuation) +Lithuania +Netherlands +Norway +Poland
14:20	Coffee break
14:40	National presentations (continuation) +Russia +Sweden +Germany
15:40	BIM presentation (20 minutes)
16:00	Ice observation task	N. Tollman
16:20	Break or time for further presentations
18:00	Reichstag/Parlament tour Walk to the Reichstag, there the tour starts 18:30 for a maximum time of 90 minutes and is on English.

Day 2, Wednesday, October 15^th

Time	Topic
10:00	Arrival, Registration
10:15	Ice related NRT Classification and Segmentation of satellite data	DLR
11:00	Coffee break
11:15	Satellite data, availability and problems, some topics: +NISAR satellite +land based interferences of SAR data
12:00	Lunch break
13:00	Are ice services needed 100 years from now? We already see the weakening of the ice winter strength and based on the IPCC climate projections with increasing temperatures we should expect less and less sea ice also in the Baltic. But there is also the possibility of a shutdown of the Atlantic meridional circulation, which would mean lower temperatures in Europe and perhaps larger need for ice services? Or will AI make classic ice services obsolete much earlier?
13:45	S-100 implementation roadmap: S-411 in the Baltic? Short presentation and discussion of possible implementation in the Baltic.	J.Holfort
14:30	Coffee break
14:45	Copernicus, Overview of data delivered to Copernicus and data used from Copernicus (observations, satellites and models).
15:30	General discussion What are the future tasks or goals? Next meeting: place and time?
16:30	End of working meeting

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BSIM-29 will be held 14.-15. October 2025 at the Federal Ministry of Transport in Berlin, commemorating 100 Years of collaboration (tentative Agenda).
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