1. Data Providers Workshop April Steven Ramage, GEO Secretariat @steven_ramage

2. GEO: an intergovernmental body that promotes open Earth Observation data availability, access and use

3. 104 National Governments

4. 110 Participating Organisations

5. Observations in, on and around the Earth
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Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response/NOAA

6. Societal Benefit Areas

7. Before Open Data Policy: 53 scenes/day
After Open Data Policy: 5,700 scenes/day .

8. Annual Economic Benefit
USA $1.70 B
International $400 M
Global Total $2.1 B .

9. The GEO Strategic Plan 2016-2025
“The vision for GEO is to realize a future wherein decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed via coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth Observations and information”.
GEO Vision
Advocate the importance of Earth observations as key resources that must be protected and rendered fully & openly accessible.
Engage with stakeholders to increase the understanding and use of Earth observations and address global and regional challenges.
Deliver data, information and knowledge enabling stakeholders to improve policy- and decision-making processes.
High level
Strategic Objectives
Identifying user needs and addressing gaps in the information chain
Sustaining foundational observations and data
Fostering partnerships and mobilize resources
Advancing the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and best practices in data management and sharing
Implementing sustained global and regional services
Cultivating awareness, building capacity and promoting innovation
Core Functions
to scope GEO activities

10. to scope GEO activities
The GEO Work Programme
Core Functions
to scope GEO activities
High level
Strategic Objectives
GEO Vision
Work Programme
Overall Deliverables
Enabling elements: GEOSS (Access to Data, information, Knowledge), User needs and observational gaps, Capacity Building
Demonstrating EO key role: from R&D activities to developing and demonstrating prototype, end-to-end services
Creating and keeping awareness: policy relevance, “buy-in” from decision-makers, user engagement, communication & outreach, strengthening the GEO Community
Ensure functioning of the GEO collaboration framework
Work Programme approved by GEO-XIII in November

11. Commitment to use EO for policy
Ministerial Declaration , GEO Plenary XII, Mexico City, 2015
“Affirm that GEO and its Earth observations and information will support the implementation of, inter alia, the 2030 Global Goals for Sustainable Development, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction , the United Nations System of Environmental and Economic Accounts, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.”

12. Disaster Resilience (Sendai Framework)
The Sendai Framework includes language recognizing that Earth observations have a clear role in Disaster Risk Reduction. GEO’s Data Access for Risk Management (GEO DARMA) is building a framework for the integration of Earth observation technologies into Disaster Risk Reduction.
The GEO community is working closely with UNISDR on the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) and with UNECE/UNESCAP on Disaster Statistics and Geospatial Information. .

14. GEO Observations Blog

15. Emergency Response for NZ Earthquake organized by CODATA/LODGD and ChinaGEOSS
10:00 (request arrived )
13:00 (mission start)
17:00
(data policy published)
22:00
(first dataset published)
(website)
additional observing by JL-1A
(mission close)
Open to New Zealand, GEO, CODATA, IRDR

16. Climate Change (Paris Agreement)

17. UN Agenda 2030 (Sustainable Development)
GEO working closely with UN-GGIM, notably through the Working Group on Geospatial Information (WGGI) under the Inter Agency Expert Group (IAEG) of UN Statistics Division;
GEO initiative in service of Agenda 2030 – EO4SDGs;
GEO is an EO Anchor Partner for the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD).

21. EO case studies: Agenda 2030
GEO is instrumental in integrating use of Earth observation data into the methodology of measuring and achieving Sustainable Development Goal Indicators.
This brochure gives graphic illustration of the types of EO data sets and images available which means decision-makers can not only use data to identify the status they need to report, they can visualize the solution, too.

22. Decision tree on usage of EO data for National Statistical Organisations
P30

23. Integration of EO & statistical data to report on SDGs [Indicator 68: Ratio of land consumption & population growth rates]
USE OF SATELLITE IMAGES TO CALCULATE STATISTICS ON LAND COVER AND LAND USE: PILOT PROJECT REPORT FROM DANE (National Statistics Office of Colombia)

24. GEO Work Programme

25. GEO Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON)
GEO Flagships
GEO Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON)
GEO Global Agriculture Monitoring (GEOGLAM)
The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI)
Global Observation System for Mercury (GOS4M)
GEO Flagships develop and implement pilot or pre-operational services according to GEO priorities. They allow Members and Participating Organizations to spin-up an operational service serving common needs. GEO Flagships may operate for as long as they are able to generate sufficient impact to attract support for their activities. Once they reach a mature, operational stage, they may be taken up by user institutions (e.g. GEO Participating Organizations), for their continued operation over the long term.

26. GEO BON – monitoring biodiversity change in support of policy
GEO BON is focused on developing a network of observation systems that delivers enhanced and harmonised biodiversity information to facilitate better decision making from local to global scales. The GEO BON observation network is developed through the adoption and implementation of the Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) and related monitoring guidelines, through targeted capacity building efforts at the national and regional level, including the development of the “BON in a Box” toolkit, and the engagement of National, Regional and Thematic Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs).
National governments are GEO BON’s key users . Governments need scientifically sound biodiversity data, information and knowledge to meet their national mandates (e.g. national biodiversity plans, recovering species at risk, sustaining ecosystem services) and fulfill their international obligations (e.g. the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the Convention on Migratory Species, etc.). GEO BON actively engages with governments to help develop national biodiversity monitoring schemes.

27. GEO GLAM – leveraging Earth observations for a food-secure world
Crop monitor for Early Warning
Crop monitor for AMIS
GEOGLAM, the GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring initiative, was initially launched by the Group of Twenty (G20) Agriculture Ministers in June 2011, in Paris. The initiative forms part of the G20 Action Plan on Food Price Volatility, which also includes the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS, another inter-institutional initiative with a Secretariat hosted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The G20 Ministerial Declaration states that GEOGLAM “will strengthen global agricultural monitoring by improving the use of remote sensing tools for crop production projections and weather forecasting”.
The main objective of GEOGLAM is to reinforce the international community’s capacity to produce and disseminate relevant, timely and accurate projections of agricultural production at national, regional and global scales by using Earth Observation data.

30. GFOI - Global Forest Observations Initiative
Through the work of its partners, GFOI supports REDD+ countries to develop their national forest monitoring systems and associated emissions measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) procedures.
Reducing
Emissions from
Deforestation and forest
Degradation
+ Conservation and Sustainable Development
The fundamental objective of GFOI is assist REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks) developing countries to develop sovereign technical, human and institutional capacity to monitor their own forests and account for their own GHG emissions. The intention is that countries will then use this capacity to generate their own robust information to inform more reliable decision making and policy development on the appropriate management of their forests and potentially provide confidence for REDD+ activities.

31. GOS4M - Global Observation System for Mercury
Increase availability and quality of EO data and information to contribute to the understanding of the cycling of mercury in support of the Minamata Convention
The proposed Flagship on a Global Observation System for Mercury (GOS4M) aims to: i) increase the availability and quality of Earth Observation data and information to contribute to the tracking of mercury released to the global environment and, where appropriate, anticipate changes to the environment; ii) harmonize metadata production, archiving and sharing data from the mercury network; and iii) develop advanced services in support of policy mandate through the Minamata Convention.
The way to attain the above objectives is by i) facilitating cooperation of governments and institutions tracking chemical pollutants; ii) fostering the adoption of advanced sensors in monitoring mercury and its compounds; iii) better preparing, archiving and sharing metadata; iv) creating advanced web services for using and discovery information from metadata and data; and v) creating ad-hoc web services for policy makers.

32. GEO Initiatives Data Access for Risk Management (GEO-DARMA)
The GEO Carbon and GHG Initiative (GEO-C)
GEO Cold Regions Initiative (GEO CRI)
GEOSS-EVOLVE
The Global Ecosystem Initiative (GEO ECO)
GEO Global Water Sustainability (GEOGLOWS)
Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories (GSNL)
GEO Human Planet Initiative (GEO HPI)
GEO Vision for renewable ENERgies (GEO VERNER)
GEO-Wetlands

33. Global Drought Information System (GDIS)
GEO Initiatives
Global Drought Information System (GDIS)
GEO Global Urban Observation and Information
Global Network for Observations and information on Mountain Environments (GEO-GNOME)
Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS)
Oceans and Society – Blue Planet
Earth observations in Service of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (EO4SDGs)

34. GEO Regional Initiatives
AfriGEOSS
AmeriGEOSS
Asia Oceania GEOSS
(AO-GEOSS)

35. Commercial sector focus and launch of revised GEOSS Portal

36. Global calls for EO research & innovation (1)
EU Horizon 2020
EO Big Data Shift €1-2m
Africa Remote Sensing €10m, e.g. GEOGLAM, AfriGEOSS and SDG2 (end hunger)
Climate Services €5m
Citizen Observatories €1m
In-situ EO systems €4-5m
Deadlines Feb and March 2017

37. Global calls for EO research & innovation (2)
NASA ROSES Solicitation
Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences
GEO Work Programme
Broader domestic involvement in US national approach to GEO and the Work Programme
$5m spread across packages
Proposals were due end Feb 2017

38. Access, visualise and download data from the GEOSS Portal www
Access, visualise and download data from the GEOSS Portal

40. GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)

41. GCI Partners

42. GCI for Water - Virtual Seminar
29 March – Geneva Time (CET)
 Presentation of Flagships and Initiatives under the Water SBA  Toshio Koike – DIAS (Data Integration and Analysis System)
 Will Pozzi - GDIS (Global Drought Information System)
 Angelica Gutierrez, GEOGLOWS (GEO Global Water Sustainability)
 Steven Greb – Aquawatch (GEO Water Quality Community of Practice)
 Hannele Savela – GEOCRI (GEO Cold Region Initiative)
GCI for Agriculture -Virtual Seminar
GCI for Biodiversity - Virtual Seminar
GCI for Climate - Virtual Seminar etc etc

44. For more information: www. earthobservations. org www. geoportal
For more information: Steven Ramage, GEO Secretariat @steven_ramage