geostatistics for informed decision making
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Why Openness and capacity building are key for harnessing the potential of GeoStatistics for
Informed Decision Making ?
Suchith Anand
Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching globally as part of the ICA-OSGeo MoU
Historical perspective on GeoStatistics
data acquisition / storage / exchangeconflation / data analysis / geocomputationfor general public / for practitioners /for researchers Didier Leibovici et al
GLOBAL SOCIETAL PROBLEMS: access GLOBAL SOCIETAL PROBLEMS: access to water, sanitation, traffic congestions, to water, sanitation, traffic congestions, economic sustainability, citizenseconomic sustainability, citizens’’ health, health, impact on environment …impact on environment …Mapping is a critical component to help understand and develop solutions
Proprietary software tools are very expensive (hence unavailable) for economically poor countries and communities worldwide What is the point of having all the open data if we do not have access to the tools?
Why is Geoeducation & capacity building important?
Kibera , Kenya
Dharavi, Mumbaihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/56685562@N00/2340042701
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8485582@N07/7365580810
Integration of Geospatial and statistical tools play a key role in helping find solutions to global societal challenges
Geo for All - Making Geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all
Image Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project
Need for Open Principles
• Open source software.
• Open data.
• Open standards.
• Open access to research publications.
• Open education resources
GeoForAll fundamentally is based on Open Principles
Geospatial Standards (for ex. OGC spec.)
Maturity of open source software (for
ex. OSGeo stack)
Open Data
Ability for showing the operation of general laws
is fundamental for scientific research
Unique convergence of many key developments that made Open Geospatial Science possible
Open Geospatial Science builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process).
The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards and open access to research publications) .
Open Geospatial Science key for harnessing the potential of Data revolution
Vision 2030Science should always be open
Geospatial Science should be fully build on Open PrinciplesTransparency of research is fundamental (no black boxes or proprietary barriers).
Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science
Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching globally as part of the ICA-OSGeo MoU
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/open-innovation-open-science-open-world-vision-europe
Why Openness in Geostatistics?
helps in harnessing the potential of GeoStatistics for Informed Decision Making
• empowerment of staff and students capacity building developing creative and open minds in
students which is critical for building open innovation
contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations.