1. Side Meeting : Reinforcing the Development and Implementation of the GEOCRI
Introduction to GEOCRI – Concept, Implementation and Meeting arrangement
Yubao Qiu Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Chinese Academic of Sciences 8 Nov., St. Petersburg, Russia

2. Russia Focus – Cold Regions
Earth’s Cold Region
View From
Northern
Pole
Frozen Water and Phase changing
High Latitude
High Altitude
Russia Focus – Cold Regions
PEEX

3. Scientific and Societal Importance
Why GEO Cold Regions?
Scientific and Societal Importance
More than 100 countries around the world have cryospheric elements. These elements are a main source of fresh water.
Cold regions are the most ecologically and environmentally sensitive areas, and changes to these areas comprehensively affect the dynamic earth system, impacting many aspects of society in all parts of the world.
The cold regions of our planet influence our entire world.

4. Activates related to Earth’s Cold Region by domain
Numbers for the activities arranged by Regions

5. Environmental and socio-political challenges
Specific Earth observation needs and requirements
Climate & Weather
Biodiversity & Ecosystems
International Relations & Cooperation
Sustainable Development, Indigenous Communities & Traditional Practices
Health
Agriculture, Fisheries, Hunting & Food
Water
Pollution & Environmental Protection
Hazards
Built Environment, Infrastructure & Transport
Energy
Mining & Fossil Fuels
Forestry
Shipping
Tourism

6. An Information Service for Cold Regions (or GEO Cold Regions), exploiting the GEOSS information system, is needed to provide easy access to observations and environmental information products by users across the globe.

7. GEOCRI – GEO Cold Region Initiative
Aiming to share the vision of GEO to address the global environmental change, and its resulting impacts and challenges on all aspects of society, an Information Service for Cold Regions was established to broaden and share Earth observations for societal benefits, and inform the decision makers.
Scope - Global Cold Regions: Including the Arctic, Antarctic, Himalaya-Third Pole, high-latitude oceans and high-mountain cold region areas
GEO Cold Regions Initiative > recommended to GEO WP , which is the legacy of Information Service for Cold Regions in Water SBA.

8. GEOCRI Mission and Objectives
Mission: Develop a user-driven approach for Cold Regions information services to complement the mainly current science-driven effort, and foster the collaboration for improved earth observations and information on a global scale.
Objectives
Integrating, Brokering and Promoting Earth Observations over Earth Cold Regions
Advocating and Practicing Data Sharing
Building Community Portal and Services
Strengthening Capacity building and Partnerships

9. GEOCRI Task and Implentation Plan
Tasks:
Infrastructures
Monitoring Network and Data
Integrating in situ and Remote Sensing Observations
User Engagement and Communication
Capacity Buidling and Knowledge Transfer
Management and Monitoring
Hierarchy structure of the activities
6 tasks:
Support SAON in maintain an inventory of existing cold region EO initiative (programme, projects, organizations, network, system…)
Leverage GEO’s international position to align other activities with artic Observing System efforts and SAON (GCW, INTERACT)
Support observing system networks

10. Side Meeting’s Aim Discussion Points
Reinforcing the Development and Implementation of
the GEO Cold Regions Initiative (GEOCRI)
Discussion Points
GEO member country and POs contribution to cold regions Earth observations, especially
Russian Collaboration and related GEO POs
Facilitate the overall international User Engagement
Users requirement and identification of users
Reinforcing the Implementation Tasks through projects
Involvement into the task and subtask level, open

11. Side Meeting’s Arrangement
Introduction to GEOCRI – concept, implementation and meeting arrangement (Yubao Qiu) 10’
Understanding of the Earth’s Cold Regions 60’
- SAON (Jan Rene Larsen, Peter Pulsifer / Remotely) 12’
- WMO (Lars Peter Riishojgaard) 12’
- ESA Cold Regions Activities (Ola Gråbak / Remotely) 12’
- Comparative Study on Earth’s Three Poles (Huadong Guo, Lizhe Wang) 12’
- Mega and Super Mega Transect Concepts (Terry Callaghan) 12’
Cold Regions Earth observation activities and initiatives 70’
  -INTAROS (Lasse Pettersson) 10’
-Russian Hydrometeorological University activities (Mikhail Latonin, Oleg Pokrovsky) 10’
Coffee and Refreshments (30’) （10:30 ~ 11:00）
-ROSHYDROMET/MGO activities (Viktor Ivakhov) 10’
-ROSHYDROMET/AARI activities (Alexander Klepikov) 10´
-PEEX (Tukka Petäjä, Hanna Lappalainen / Remotely) 10’
-INTERACT2 (Terry Callaghan, Hannele Savela) 10’
-GEOMAR (Heidi Kassens) 10’
Discussion and Way Forward 30’ (11:50~12:20)
-GEOCRI’s Implementation Plan (Hannele Savela) 10’
-Discussion 20’
*Engagement Strategy
*Russian Collaboration
Restricted： 10’+2’ Questions
Restricted： 8’+2’ Questions

12. Yubao Qiu： qiuyb@radi.ac.cn
Thank you!
Contact Info
Yubao Qiu：
Hannele Savela ：