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GEO Overview
Angelica Gutierrez, NOAAJacob Sutherlun, NOAA
Webinar 314 November 2013
Adapted from GEO Secretariat Presentation
Created in 2005, to develop a coordinated and sustained Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) to enhance decision making in nine Societal Benefit Areas (SBAs)
GEO today:
90 Members
67 Participating
Organizations
In-situ Systems
Increasing Demand for Free Digital Landsat Data
Daily Average = 53 scenes for best year of sales (2001)Daily Average ≅ 5,700 scenes of web-enabled data delivered
09.12.2013-AIAA – 5
• Data delivered to 186 countries• User shift to multi-year scenes at same
location• Exceeded 13 million scenes 8/21/2013
• Improve and Coordinate Observation Systems
• Advance Broad Open Data Policies/Practices
• Foster Increased Use of EO Data and Information
• Build Capacity
GEO Objectives
Data Sharing Principles
• Full and Open Exchange of Data
• Data and Products at Minimum Time delay and Minimum Cost
• Free of Charge or Cost of Reproduction
GEOSS• Global Earth Observation System of Systems• an integrating public infrastructure, interconnecting
a diverse, growing array of Earth observing instruments and information systems for monitoring and forecasting changes in the global environment
• Supports policymakers, resource managers, science researchers and other experts to support informed decision making for society
• 10-year implementation plan• 2015: Global, Coordinated, Comprehensive and
Sustained System of Observing Systems
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A Global, Coordinated, Comprehensive and Sustained System of Observing Systems
1. Uncertainty over continuity of observations
2. Large spatial and temporal gaps in specific data sets
3. Limited access to data and associated benefits in developing world
4. Inadequate data integration and interoperability
5. Lack of relevant processing systems to transform data into useful information
6. Inadequate user involvement
7. Eroding or little technical infrastructure in many parts of the world
GEOSS Targeted Gaps
GEOSS Building Blocks• In order to build an integrated system of systems,
GEO is focusing efforts in the following key areas:– Architecture– Data Management– Capacity Building– Science and Technology– User Engagement
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Architecture• Before 2015, GEO aims to:
– Achieve sustained operation, continuity and interoperability of existing and new systems that provide essential environmental observations and information, including the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) that facilitates access to, and use of, these observations and information.
• This will be achieved through:– Provision of long-term, continuous data– Identification of effective national coordination mechanisms– Adoption and advocacy of comprehensive approach to global EO
systems– Promotion of consistent standards and practices for observations
through the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)• Points of Contact: Espen Volden - [email protected],
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Interoperability Brokering Strategy
GEODAB
GEO Home Page
GEOSS
Portal
Enabling a System of Systems
Current Assets
About 20 brokered data providers – capacities, systems, Communities .. .
More than 7 Million (1.2 Million GEOSS Data Core) Discoverable and potentially Accessible resources (mix of data collections, datasets and individual images)
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Publish
Contain [source: data providers]
More than 65 Million (50 Million GEOSS Data Core) Discoverable and potentially Accessible granules (e.g. satellite scene, raingauge record)
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Resources
What is the difference between the GCI and Google?
GCI• Searches on content,
location, and time in EO datasets
• Provides access to data in EO databases
• Historically no ranking• Efforts now being undertaken to
rank by DataCORE, accessibilty, expert opinion, etc
Google Search• Searches Web pages that
may describe EO datasets• Does not search inside EO
databases• Provides ranked resultsGoogle Earth• Displays selected satellite
imagery and aerial photography
• Does not provide access to data
While tools such as GOOGLE are general instruments to discover generic content and serve a broad-spectrum audience, the GCI is a specialized system supporting discovery and access of Earth observations
Resource Growth
Data Management• Before 2015, GEO aims to:
– Provide a shared, easily accessible, timely, sustained stream of comprehensive data of documented quality, as well as metadata and information products, for informed decision-making.
• This will be achieved through:– Data made available in accordance with GEOSS Data Sharing
Principles– Promotion of a coordinated, life-cycle data management process to
support simulation, modeling, and prediction capabilities– Development of best practices for observation, collection and
access to data and information– Evaluation of emerging information sources and encouraging
access to information through GEOSS as appropriate• Points of Contact: Osamu Ochiai - [email protected],
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Capacity Building• Before 2015, GEO aims to:
– Enhance the coordination of efforts to strengthen individual, institutional and infrastructure capacities, particularly in developing countries, to produce and use Earth observations and derived information products.
• This will be achieved through:– Working with and building on the capacity building efforts of GEO
Members and Participating Organizations to further increase synergies and effectiveness of national and international capacity building programs
– Ensuring the engagement and committed involvement of resource providers in the GEO capacity building process
– Enhancing capacity building efforts to ensure the integration of Earth observation-based information systems into daily practices
• Points of Contact: João Soares - [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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Science and Technology• Before 2015, GEO aims to:
– Ensure full interaction and engagement of relevant science and technology communities such that GEOSS advances through integration of innovations in Earth observation science and technology, enabling the research community to fully benefit from GEOSS accomplishments.
• This will be achieved through:– Promotion of research and development in key areas of Earth sciences– Research and development for models, data assimilation modules and
new or improved algorithms– Encouraging and facilitating transition of systems from research to
operations– Inclusion of societal needs in new research observing system planning
• Points of Contact: Douglas Cripe – [email protected], Kathy Fontaine - [email protected]
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User Engagement• Before 2015, GEO aims to:
– Ensure critical user information needs for decision making are recognized and met through Earth observations.
• This will be archived through:– Developing a framework to identify and implement linkages across
Societal Benefit Areas– Active partnerships among and within Societal Benefit Areas,
promoting synergy among GEO projects – Increased development of data and information, with special
emphasis on socio-economic applications and the development of methods for models and tools required to make best use of these data in science and technology development and decision-making
– Use of Earth observation products and services across all Societal Benefit Areas of GEOSS, especially in and for developing countries
• Point of Contact: Tomoko Mano - [email protected], [email protected],
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GEOSS Cross-Cutting Societal Benefits Activities
• In addition to the nine societal benefit areas, there are several cross-cutting societal benefit activities, including:– Oceans– Global land cover– Global forest observations– Global urban observations and information– Impact assessment of human activities.
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Oceans• Provide sustained ocean observations and
information to underpin the development, and assess the efficacy, of global-change adaptation measures
• Improve the global coverage and data accuracy of coastal and open-ocean observing systems
• Coordinate and promote the gathering, processing, and analysis of ocean observations
• Develop a global operational ocean forecasting network
• Contacts: Albert Fischer, [email protected]; Robert Houtman, [email protected]© GEO Secretariat
Blue Planet
oceansandsociety.org
The Oceans and Society: Blue Planet Task of GEO seeks, through the mobilisation of expert knowledge,
• to raise public awareness of the role of the oceans in the Earth system, of their impacts (good and bad) on humankind, and of the societal benefits of ocean observations;
• to coordinate the various marine initiatives within GEO and develop synergies between them; and
• to advocate and advance the establishment and maintenance of a global observing network for the oceans.
Recent Progress and Key Outputs for 2013• Kick-off Symposium, Brazil, November 2012• Book contract • Engagement with EC in relation to collaboration with Canada and
USA (The Atlantic – A Shared Resource)• Requests from other programmes to participate in Blue Planet
(eg Ocean Acidification Network)• Plan to develop White Paper for Task
Ways of Extending Task Participation• Unsolicited requests coming from other programmes to join Blue
Planet• Intergovernmental participation, for example through EU/North
America collaboration (The Atlantic – a shared resource). Blue Planet vision is global in scope
• But funds are limited at present
Blue Planet
Global Land Cover• Provide a suite of global land-cover and land-cover
change datasets, based on improved and validated moderate resolution land-cover maps
• Develop <50m global land-cover and land-cover change data sets
• Improve the use of time-series products to characterize the nature and extent of land-cover change and dynamics
• Contacts: Garik Gutman, [email protected]
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Global Forest Observations• Build upon and continue the science and
demonstration activities performed under the GEO Forest Carbon Tracking (FCT) initiative
• Support the worldwide development of national forest information systems for improved forest management and ecosystem & biodiversity monitoring
• Coordinate satellite data acquisition over the global forest
• Ensure comprehensive coverage and continuity of data
• Contacts: Michael Brady, [email protected]© GEO Secretariat
FCT National DemonstratorsFrom 2009• Brazil• Guyana• Mexico• Indonesia • Australia • Cameroon• Tanzania
From 2010• Colombia• DR Congo• Peru
From 2011• Nepal
GFOI overall objectives and areas of action
Objectives•Fostering the sustained availability of observations in support of national forest monitoring systems•Supporting countries in the use of observations in NFMS – respecting national choices of data and tools
Areas of action• Coordination of satellite data acquisition and
supply• Capacity development• Research, Development and Demonstration• Methods and guidance documentation
Near term actionsWhile continuing to mobilize data and support for the countries currently engaged, GFOI is also expanding to sustained routine activities aiming to
– encourage greater participation by new countries – reflect priorities of UNFCCC, FAO, World Bank FCPF– increase coordination of capacity enhancing within
GFOI and with other organisations– continue and enhance data provision and continue to
develop the MGD– Continue to perform R&D activities and in-country
demonstrations– include additional donor countries and organisations in
GFOI - mobilise resources
Global Urban Observations and Information
• Improve the coordination of urban observations, monitoring, forecasting, and assessment initiatives worldwide
• Support the development of a global urban observation and analysis system
• Produce up-to-date information on the status and development of the urban system – from local to global scale
• Fill existing gaps in the integration of global urban land observations
• Contacts: Dale Quattrochi, [email protected]© GEO Secretariat
Impact Assessment of Human Activities
• Foster the use of Earth observation and information for environmental, economic and societal impact assessment
• Develop datasets, tools and services for impact monitoring and prediction across Societal Benefit Areas
• Develop a set of tools to process and analyze datasets
• Identify user-defined data requirements for impact monitoring and promote related in-situ as well as remotely-sensed observations
• Contact: [email protected], [email protected]© GEO Secretariat
Nine Societal Benefit Areas
GEO Agriculture Activities• Improve sustainable agriculture management• Improve food security• Develop early-warning systems to mobilize food aid• Build capacity• Develop GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEO-
GLAM) initiative to strengthen monitoring with remote sensing (http://www.geoglam-crop-monitor.org/node/118)
• Points of Contact: – João Soares - [email protected], GEO Secretariat Expert
for Agriculture– Chris Justice - [email protected], USA Contact
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GEO Biodiversity Activities• Implement the GEO Biodiversity Observation Network
(GEO BON), a global framework for observations to detect biodiversity change (http://www.earthobservations.org/geobon.shtml)
• Coordinate data gathering• Work in cooperation with conventions
– Convention on Biological Diversity– Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services• Develop and implement Essential Biodiversity
Variables• Point of Contact:
– Georgios Sarantakos - [email protected], GEO Secretariat Expert for Biodiversity
– Michele Walters - [email protected], Gary Geller - [email protected], or Woody Turner - [email protected]
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GEO Climate Activities• Produce estimates of past and current climate to
better detect climate variability and change• Implement the Global Climate Observing System
(GCOS) (http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/gcos/index.php0
• Strengthen capacity to deliver improved climate services
• Support integration into adaptation processes and policy
• Develop global carbon observation and analysis system
• For more information, contact:– Espen Volden - [email protected], GEO Secretariat Expert
for Climate– Antonio Bombelli - [email protected], Contact for Carbon
Community of Practice
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GEO Disasters Activities• Improve disaster risk management and reduction• Provide timely information relevant to full cycle of
disaster management, including mitigation, preparedness, warning, response, and recovery
• Monitor geohazards; provide alerts, and risk assessments
• Implement end-to-end regional pilot projects• Point of Contact:
– Francesco Gaetani - [email protected], GEO Secretariat Expert for Disasters
– Stuart Marsh - [email protected], Contact for GeoHazards Community of Practice, Falk Amelung - [email protected]
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Today: Permanent Geohazard Supersites
accepted: Hawaii, Iceland volcanoes next: North Anatolian Fault, San Andreas Fault• frequent high-resolution SAR imagery for deformation monitoring from CEOS agencies
• in-situ observations from local monitoring agency (seismic and GPS)• open data access (one data portal)
Global Network of Natural Laboratories and
SupersitesAmericas Europe/Africa Asia
• background monitoring with low-resolution satellites• monitoring of Supersites with high-resolution satellites• interconnected geohazard monitoring agencies• open data access
GEO, CEOS, and NASA work together on Disaster Sensor Web Concept
Analyze Risks
Task Sensor
Acquire Data (Image)
Detect Floods
Analyze Image
Validate Model
Acquire Data
(River Gauge)
Initiate Request
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GEO Ecosystems Activities• Assess present and future trends of ecosystem
conditions and services for policy-making and natural resource management
• Improve knowledge of ecosystem temporal and spatial variability
• Observe ecosystems sustainably to assess resilience• Improve ecosystem services techniques• For more information, contact:
– Yubao Qiu - [email protected], GEO Secretariat Expert for Ecosystems
– No Community of Practice
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GEO Energy Activities• Improve energy and geo-resources management• Address end-to-end energy productions systems:
generation, transmission, distribution, integrated operations
• Address end-to-end geo-resource exploitation systems: exploration, extraction, transportation
• Encourage use of Earth Observations for policy planning
• For more information, contact:– Georgios Sarantakos - [email protected], GEO
Secretariat Expert for Energy– Ellsworth LeDrew - [email protected], Contact for Energy
Community of Practice© GEO Secretariat
Surface meteorology and Solar Energy (SSE) web portal
• Provides key environmental parameters for renewable energy project analysis, particularly solar energy– Over 200+ parameters, many generated on the fly– Daily averaged solar and meteorological data on 1˚ x 1˚
grid– ASCII formats tailored for solar and other renewable energy
industries– Specific support for major decision support tools
RETScreen and HOMER (Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewables)
– Developed, improved, and maintained by NASA Langley Research Center
• More information:https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sse
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Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resource (POWER) web portal
• Provides more experimental data sets for buildings and agricultural communities
• Global data parameters updated routinely to maintain at most 1 week delay relative to real time
• Data parameters adapted from NASA data products from CERES and GMAO
• Specific support to RETScreen Performance Plus that monitors building energy performance
• Web site address:https://power.larc.nasa.gov
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Long-term high resolution solar maps• Developing Long-term High Resolution Solar Maps
using Latest Satellite Data Products– Partnership Team: NASA, DOE/NREL, NOAA, SUNY-Albany– Aiming at 10 km, global resolution at 3-hourly time scale– Uses newly processed NOAA NCDC GridSat data products– Preliminary data products produced including some
validation– Aim to deliver data production capability to DOE/NREL for
operational production of data products
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GEO Health Activities• Build capacity and improve use of Earth
Observations in health decision-making processes• Improve understanding of health decision-maker
needs• Monitor air quality; provide alerts, and risk
assessments• Integrate and link with other Societal Benefit Areas• For more information, contact:
– Douglas Cripe - [email protected], and Tomoko Mano - [email protected], GEO Secretariat Experts for Health
– Ramesh Dhiman - [email protected], Rifat Hossain - [email protected], Contacts for Health Community of Practice
– Gary Foley - [email protected], Contact for Air Quality Community of Practice
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GEO Water Activities• Develop operational and sustained global network of
in situ observation sites• Improve availability of water cycle products and
services for research and integrated water resource management
• Improve availability of data and information, e.g. surface and ground water quality and quantity, to support a water cycle decision-making system
• Routinely produce watershed and human health indicators
• Points of contact:– Douglas Cripe – [email protected], GEO Secretariat Expert
for Water– Rick Lawford - [email protected]
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Pathways to a Global Drought Monitoring Product
The mosaic approach
Research is planned to evaluate the degree to whichdrought impacts in parts ofthe world can be assessedusing a global set ofindicators in combinationwith local information.
Global coverage bya single productor index
C2. Information Systems for Hydrometeorological Extremes (GDEWS, Drought Impacts, Floods)
GOAL: Integrate water quality data from multiple sources in a timely manner and through data assimilatation of Earth observation with other sources of data such as water quantity, hydrodynamics, biogeochemical modelling, generate higher level information products such as trends and anomalies and additional “value-added” products such as fluxes and flows.
• Develop international operational water quality information systems based on Earth observation.
• Collate and develop in-situ water quality databases and remote-sensed data, particularly space-borne data.
The component addresses both flowing and static water bodies, recognizes differing approaches to assessing their water quality and the linkages/interface betweeen them.
C4 Global Water Quality Products and Services
Lakes Mendota & Monona -University of Wisconsin SSEC image
C5. Information System Development and Capacity Building (CIEHLYC, AWCI, AfWCCI, IEEE Pilots)
Common Issues:- Climate change and water resources- Extremes (floods and droughts)- Demonstration of value of GEO principals - Land use change and impacts on water resources
GEOSSWater Cycle Integrator
(WCI)
AWCI
AfWCCI
Project Manager: Steven R. Greb, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Cooperators: Katherine Vammen, Assistant Director Centro para la Investigación de Recursos Acuáticos (CIRA), Nicaragua.
Colleen Mouw, University of Wisconsin, Madison Space Science and Engineering Center
Monitoring Water Quality in Lake Nicaragua by Satellite Remote Sensing
An IEEE Water for the World Demonstration Project
GEO Weather Activities• Identify and address gaps in operational weather
networks• Improve range and quality of services for high
impact weather forecasting• Develop more accurate, reliable, and relevant
weather analyses, forecasts, advisories, and warnings of severe and other high impact hydrometeorological events
• Points of contact:– Douglas Cripe – [email protected], GEO Secretariat Expert
for Weather– Jim Caughey - [email protected]
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Advances in Global and Regional Weather Forecasts
Country and Regional Needs• What are the most important issues across the
building blocks?• What are the most important issues across the cross-
cutting areas?• What are the most important issues across the
societal benefit areas?
• GEO can help! We can discuss now, and please e-mail us with additional information.
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Technical ActivitiesNetworking Activities
National and Regional GEO Mechanisms
• Two approaches to establishing GEO mechanisms– Top-Down– Bottom-Up
• EGIDA study done recently to establish methodology to create a national GEO structure
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NA.1 •Identification of stakeholders
NA.2 •Assessment of the awareness of GEO/GEOSS in the proposed network
NA.3 •Dissemination of the GEO/GEOSS initiative in the proposed network
NA.4 •Establishment and operation of the network
NA.5 •Address sustainability of the (re-)engineering process
TA.1 •Definition of the management structure and process for capacity building
TA.2 •Identification and removal of barriers to information sharing
TA.3 •Design of a national/regional resource sharing system
TA.4 •Implementation of the system
TA.5 •Assessment and evaluation
TA.6 •Integration with GEOSS and other infrastructures
Website:
http://www.egida-project.eu/
Contacts:
Douglas Cripe - [email protected]
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• 2014 - 1st Latin-American school in Ocean Acidification (LAOCA) – Chile. International sponsors.
• 2014 - Monthly webinars on Earth-Observations projects by Latin-American scientist. Collaboration: GEO-Secretariat – CIEHLYC.
POC: [email protected]
Bottom-Up
Approach
• 2013 - Project on Water Availability from Snow in “high mountains” (Chile). Collaboration CIREN-NASA-CIEHLYC.
• 2013 - Participation on Special Session on GEOSS at LARS, Chile.
Comunidad para la Informacion Espacial e
Hydrografica en Latinoamerica y el Caribe (CIEHLYC)
• 2011- Colombia is welcomed as a GEO member Collaboration: GEO Secretariat – IDEAM – CIEHLYC.
• 2011 - Water Cycle Capacity-Building Workshop (hands-on training). Cartagena, Colombia. Collaboration: NOAA - GEO Secretariat – CIEHLYC.
Recommendation 1: Continuation of GEO and GEOSS Implementation
GEO through 2025
Recommendation 2: GEO Strategic Objectives
• Coordinating Earth observations
• Facilitating enhanced access to national, regional and global Earth observation data and information
• Fostering global initiatives
Recommendation 4.5:
Resources for GEO and GEOSS Post-2015
• Continue to rely on voluntary contributions (from both public and non-public sources)
• Sustain essential technical and administrative components (GEO Secretariat and GEOSS Information System)
• Support mechanisms for improving participation of developing countries
2014 Ministerial Summit and “GEO week”
13 to 17 January 2014
• Centre International des Conférences in Geneva (CICG)
• GEO Implementation Board meetings• GEO Executive Committee meeting• GEO-X Plenary meeting• High-level Side Events• Exhibition, open to the public• Ministerial Summit on 17 January
GEOSS in the Americas• There are 14 members of the Americas Caucus:
Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, United States
• Three GEOSS in the Americas Symposia have been held in the Americas: Brazil – 2007, Panama – 2008, Chile – 2011
• Waiting until after the GEO Ministerial in January 2014 to plan another Symposium
GEOSS in the Americas Participation in 2014 GEO Ministerial
• USGEO will be sponsoring a booth in the exhibit hall at the upcoming GEO Ministerial
• USGEO would like to encourage other Americas countries to join in the exhibit to illustrate what GEOSS is providing to its users and how complex challenges are being addressed
• Ways for your country or organization to join in:– Propose a 5 minute presentation that you will present in the
booth during the exhibit on some of your recent activities (someone will have to be present to present this information)
– Send posters or text that we can incorporate in larger posters that will be part of the exhibit
– Proposals for the booth are due ASAP – Please send to [email protected] and [email protected]
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How You Can Participate in GEO• Member countries and participating organizations are
encouraged to participate in Ministerials, Plenaries, Symposia, Working Groups, and other GEO related activities
• Non-member countries and organizations are encouraged to participate in Ministerials, Plenaries, Symposia, Working Groups, and other GEO related activities
• Additional member countries can join by– Formally agreeing to the value of GEO– Identify Principal and Alternate points of contact– Then come to plenary and ministerial
• Broad and diverse participation will maximize the potential benefits of a Global Earth Observation System of Systems
• Contact the GEO Secretariat for more information, [email protected]
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Next Steps and Important Dates• Additional GEO overview webinars through mid-November• Follow-up ad hoc technical discussions• November – next Americas Caucus Teleconference• November 10 – finalize Booth Plan for Ministerial• November 19-22 – Workshop on the Use of Space Science and
Technology for the Prevention of and Response to Disasters in Mesoamerica (POC: Jacob Sutherlun – [email protected])
• November 19 -December 10 – Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) Weekly Webinar Series: Flood Monitoring using NASA Remote Sensing Data (POC: Ana Prados – [email protected])
• December - consolidated list of upcoming workshops• Jan 13-17, 2014 - GEO Ministerial and Plenary• 2014 - 11 CIEHLYC Water Cycle Webinars in 2014 (POC: Angelica
Gutierrez - [email protected])• 2014 – GEOSS in the Americas Follow up Event
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Thank you!
• Angelica Gutierrez, NOAA – [email protected]
• Nancy Searby, NASA - [email protected]
• Jacob Sutherlun, NOAA – [email protected]
• Eric Wood, USGS - [email protected]
Points of Contact:
Back-up Slides
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Oceans & Society: Blue Planet
Trevor Platt
Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans
oceansandsociety.org
Task SB-01 MISSION
• The Oceans and Society: Blue Planet Task of GEO seeks, through the mobilisation of expert knowledge,
• to raise public awareness of the role of the oceans in the Earth system, of their impacts (good and bad) on humankind, and of the societal benefits of ocean observations;
• to coordinate the various marine initiatives within GEO and develop synergies between them; and
• to advocate and advance the establishment and maintenance of a global observing network for the oceans.
Task SB-01Recent Progress and Key Outputs for 2013
• Kick-off Symposium, Brazil, November 2012• Book contract • Engagement with EC in relation to collaboration with
Canada and USA (The Atlantic – A Shared Resource)• Requests from other programmes to participate in Blue
Planet (eg Ocean Acidification Network)• Plan to develop White Paper for Task
Synergies with other TasksOpportunities for collaboration
• Water SBA (Globolakes, ChloroGIN Lakes, EH20)• ID-01• ID-02 Capacity Building• IN-01 C1, C2 Systems• IN-03 GEOWOW• IN-04 GEONETCast• IN-05 GEOSS Interoperability
Ways of Extending Task Participation
• Unsolicited requests coming from other programmes to join Blue Planet
• Intergovernmental participation, for example through EU/North America collaboration (The Atlantic – a shared resource). Blue Planet vision is global in scope
• But funds are limited at present
GEO Water Activities
Water is one of nine societalBenefit Areas (SBAs). Water is a “connector” which has linkages to all of the other SBAs.
Water Task Target: By 2015, produce
comprehensive sets of data and information products to support decision-making for efficient
management of the world's water resources, based on coordinated, sustained observations on multiple scales.
Components:1 Integrated Water-cycle Information Products and Services (P, SM,
ET, R, Sfc Water, GW)2 Information Systems for Hydrometeorological Extremes (Droughts,
Floods)3 Cold Region Information Services4 Global Water Quality Information Products and Services5 Data System Development, Implementation and Capacity Building
(CIEHLYC, AWCI, AfWCCI)
The 2012-15 Work Plan
DataProducts/Indicators Informatio
n
Knowledge/Decision Making Tools
Feedback
Fast Track End-to-End application
Task Co
ord
inatio
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Component Suggested Remote Sensing Team Leader(s)
Data Arnold Dekker, Tiit Kutser, Menghua Wang
Products/Indicators Paul DiGiacomo, Stewart Bernard, Mark Dowell
Information Gordon Campbell, Hans van der Woerd
Knowledge/ Decision Making tools Chris Mannerts, Suhyb Salama
End-to-end application Steve Groom
Coordination Steven Greb, Arnold Dekker
C4: Global Water Quality Products and Services
• Nicaragua faces severe social and economic problems due to lack of access to water use.
• Lake Nicaragua is the largest and most important source of fresh water in Central America, the second-largest lake in all of Latin America.
• It has the potential to bring potable water to many of the region’s 32 million people, half of whom have no access to clean fresh water.
• Ecologically, many endemic species is trouble due to sewerage (32 tons daily) inputs and Tilapia fish farming (nutrients and diseases).
BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
Area: 8,264 km2 Max. Depth: 26 mLength: 160 kmMax Width: 72 km
Project Objectives
1. Demonstrate the efficacy of using satellite remote sensing for monitoring water quality in the Central American lake of Lake Nicaragua.
2. Share the operational use of this newly developed tool with local water quality managers for future monitoring of both seasonal and annual water quality conditions and anticipates future problems in the lake.
3. Share the data products from this pilot project with the global remote sensing community in an effort to interlink systems and fill the void of Central America regional water quality information.
4. Share the developed remote sensing techniques refined in this pilot project with the global community in the hopes that it will be used by other investigators.
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