“Standard Activities” all meeting reports and proceedings on the web

• First and Second MC meetings, Brussels, 11/23/2001 & 2/14-15/2002

• Third MC meeting, Edinburgh, 07/21/2002(at GGF-5, Global Grid Forum 5)

• Fourth MC meeting & workshop on Multispectraldata analysis, and image metadata, Strasbourg, 11/28-29/2002

• Fifth MC meeting & workshop on High/low resolution signal processing, Granada, 02/22-23/2003

• Planned: Sixth MC meeting & workshop on Poisson noise models, Nice, Oct. 2003.

• Planned: Seventh MC meeting & workshop on Data mining & Image analysis in a distributed environment, Capri, Mar. 2004.

Granada, february 2002

Major Orientation of iAstro in early 2003: FP6

• Expressions of Interest filed in - summer 2002.

• Participation in Commission Information Days.

• Involvement in several NoEs (sensor fusion, information retrieval, e-education and training, the European virtual observatory, and digital signal processing and data mining in medicine).

• Participation in evaluation panels.

COST 283 proposal for the Marie Curie RTN network

“GridFocus: Data and Information Fusion and Mining in the Context of the DataGrid”

• Submitted early April 2003.• Participants: iAstro partners in BG, CH, D, E, F, GR, H, I, IRL and UK.

Additional partner cluster in University of Paris Sud.

Multiband and multiple layer image and signal processing as a basic paradigm for the data Grid.Data mining of visual and other streams, including high performance forensic image data mining.Empirical and virtual data interfaces.