1. © GEO Secretariat Building GEOSS: A Global Earth Observations System of Systems to Inform Decisions and Actions João SOARES Technical Officer GEOSEC Capacity Building and Agriculture

2. © GEO Secretariat Environmental Challenges for the 21rst Century

3. The origins of GEO... Johannesburg WSSD 2002 called for a strengthened cooperation and coordination among Global Observations Systems and research programs for integrated global observations G8 held in Evian that called for strengthened international cooperation on global observation for the environment © GEO Secretariat

4. U.S. Department of State, Washington DC July 31, 2003 GEO, the Group on Earth Observations An Intergovernmental Organization with 87 Members and 61 Participating Organizations

5. © GEO Secretariat The Vision for GEOSS… …a world where decisions and actions are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations.

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7. IKONOS QuickBird SPIN-2 SPOT 4, 5 EROS A1 Envisat Aura/Aqua/Terra Grace QuikScat Sage SeaWinds TRMM Toms-EP UARS Landsat 7 SORCE ACRIMSAT CBERS SeaWiFS ERBS Jason Orbview 2, 3 RadarsatALOS DMC The Tower of Babel

8. GEOSS Human capital Experience + qualification Informal + formal Develop talents Deliverables Information for supporting decision-making Instutional system Networking governance Political commitment to sustained data sharing Infrastructure Spatial + in situ instrumentation Architecture + Data management + Data portals Software + tools

9. www.earthobservations.org GEOSS 10-year implementation plan © GEO Secretariat

10. Access to Data and Information Contributors register observation systems, data sets and services Users discover and exploit resources contributed to GEOSS

11. © GEO Secretariat Data and Products at Minimum Time delay and Minimum Cost Free of Charge or minimal Cost for Research and Education GEO Data Sharing Principles Full and Open Exchange of Data, recognizing Relevant International Instruments and National Policies

12. © GEO Secretariat Free and Open Access to Satellite Images: CBERS (China/Brazil), LANDSAT (USA) - data use increased by 50 X

13. © GEO Secretariat GMES Sentinels Data Access Policy?

14. © GEO Secretariat Monitoring Water Availability

15. © GEO Secretariat Monitoring Water from Space  S = P - E - R - W  S = Change in water storage P = Precipitation E = Evapo-transpiration R = Runoff W = Withdrawal

16. © GEO Secretariat Red indicates area where NRT products are currently generated Blue indicates area where products may be generated in the future. Altimetry over Lakes and Rivers

17. © GEO Secretariat Global Rainfall Map produced 4 hours after observation and updated every hour and accessible on internet as google files Global Rainfall Maps from Satellites

18. © GEO Secretariat Soil moisture Soil moisture from ERS scatterometer Soil moisture from SMOS

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20. The Geohazard Supersites provide a portal for optimizing the data acquisition strategy and sharing of preliminary information amongst scientists. The Haiti Supersite

21. © GEO Secretariat Civil Protection Agencies risk scenarios and consequent Emergency Plans Urban planners responsible for land use planning in risk prone areas. Supersites End-users “Port-au-Prince may face another devastating earthquake within the next one or two decades. This risk needs to be considered when deciding where and how to rebuild”. Geohasards analysis of the supersite data

22. © GEO Secretariat 15 to 20% of global carbon emissions are thought to arise from tropical deforestation Reduced deforestation and increased reforestation is a rapid response mechanism for reducing emissions Significant environmental, social and economic benefits besides the climate benefit (biodiversity, ecosystem services,…) Forest Carbon

23. © GEO Secretariat The Global Forest Observations Initiative Provide reliable information of suitable consistency, accuracy and continuity to support forest carbon Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV)

24. © GEO Secretariat Thank you!