Figure 1: 2007 Cape Town Ministerial Summit. Source: GEO Secretariat

Figure 2: GEOSS works in nine Societal Benefit Areas and five Transverse Areas which support all of the SBAs. Source: Y. Gevorgyan; GEOSS Evaluation Team

Figure 3: A GEOSS logic model would show how the application of resources are expected to bring about change. Monitoring and evaluation test the model and provide feedback for improvement. Source: M. O’Har, Y. Gevorgyan, J. Adamec; GEOSS Evaluation Team

Figure 4: Gaps in GEOSS implementation specified by survey respondents.

a b Figure 5: Overall ratings of implementation progress by (a) key informants and (b) survey respondents.

Figure 6: There are currently 3 pilot portals for accessing the GEOSS architecture. Many respondents identified the GEO Portal as an area in need of improvement. Source: Online GEO Portal pilot pages by ESRI, Compusult, and ESA

Figure 7: Survey respondents’ patterns of use of GEOSS components and standards for Earth observations.

Figure 8: Survey respondents perception of specific impacts from GEOSS. Because GEOSS is still relatively new and impacts are generally “long term” effects, it was expected that many more respondents would have selected “Not at All.”

Figure 9: The prevalence of each task rating category as a percentage of all tasks in the Work Plan at time of rating. The total number and composition of tasks in the work plans varied from year to year.

Figure 10: The most important accomplishments of GEOSS so far according to (a) key informants and (b) survey respondents. Wedges and associated values represent response frequencies rather than proportion of total responses. Respondents could provide more than one answer. a b

Figure 11: The “First 100 Steps” report from the Cape Town Ministerial was the only major attempt to market results of GEOSS that the Team found. Respondents and key informants both identified a need for better communication of the value-added results of GEOSS.