GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) – Here and Now (Okay a Peek at the Future) IIB Meeting at ESA-ESRIN Barbara Ryan Director, GEO Secretariat Frascati, Italy 23 February 2015
Alignment – components, terminology, people Registration – to register, or not to register? Role of the Private Sector Accessibility Key Points
GEO Home Page GEOSS Portal Discovery and Access Broker Terminology – assets, resources, granules, databases, scenes, records, etc. Community Portals – status of paper? Alignment
GEOSS Portal Aligning the Components GEO Discovery & Access Broker
Terminology Tracking & Reporting About 35 brokered data providers... More than 14 Million accessible resources (mix of data collections and datasets)... Publish Contain More than 82 Million assets (mix of satellite scenes, raingage, streamgage records, etc.)...
Registration Results
Registration Progress -- GEOSS DataCORE (Resources Pledged in Beijing)
Introduction of the Brokering approach
The Role of the Private Sector (and others)
To realize a future wherein decisions and actions, for the benefit of humankind, are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations and information. GEO Vision
© GEO Secretariat 89 Participating Organizations
Commercial Sector Value to GEO: Access to data sources, products, tools, services and test beds; visibility for existing assets and products; expertise to further develop GEOSS. Value to Commercial Sector: access to richer data sets for product/service development (growing the economy) and decision-making.
A broad Commercial Sector spans the entire information value chain Data providers Value-Added providers Downstream users
Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibilty (The WWW is a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure)
. Economic benefit 2011 USA Users $1.70 B International Users $400 M Global Total $2.1 B
Radarsat-2 Canada’s Experience
A Look to the Future
Space Themes Time GEOSS Hypercube
Space Time Precipitation in Greece ( ) Themes
Space Themes Time Global Precipitation ( )
Space Themes Time Land Use change in Europe ( )
Space Themes Time Land Use change in Europe ( ) Demography in Europe ( ) Major Floods in Europe ( )
Space Time West Africa drought observations (1995–2013) East Africa drought observations (2010 – 2012) Themes
Space Time West Africa crop prediction ( ) Themes West Africa Land Use ( )
Space Time Precipitation in Africa ( ) Themes
Global water bodies ( ) Space Time Themes Precipitation in Africa ( GCI Searches Crops obs. Asia ( ) Global Climate predictions ( ) Faults monitoring in South America ( ) Ecosystems mapping in Europe ( ) Major disasters in South Asia ( ) West Africa Land Use (SB) ( )
Alignment – components, terminology and people Registration – focus on results Engagement with the Private Sector Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility Summary & Challenges
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