GEO Progress and Issues for the Future

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1 GEO Progress and Issues for the Future Jose Achache GEO Secretariat Director 24 th CEOS Plenary Rio de Janeiro Oct 2010

2 GEO, the Group on Earth Observations An Intergovernmental Organization with 84 Members and 58 Participating Organizations U.S. Department of State, Washington DC July 31, 2003

3 GEOSS Highlights

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

5 GEO Portal (ESA/FAO)

6 GEOSS Clearinghouse (USGS)

7 GEOSS Common Infrastructure Providers of the components for the definitive GEOSS Common Infrastructure have been selected through a procedure involving functional and usability testing (supported by INPE among others) At present 254 components have been registered, associated with around datasets and 171 standards/arrangements This is only a minority of GEOSS resources: most GEOSS resources are still hidden Follow up is needed: CEOS Agencies are major resource holders

8 FCT National Demonstrators From 2009: Brazil Guyana Mexico Indonesia (Borneo) Australia (Tasmania) Cameroon Tanzania From June 2010: Colombia DR Congo Peru, and Sumatra in Indonesia From 2011 onwards: Progressive inclusion of countries from UN- REDD & World Bank FCPF is being planned.

9 Forest Carbon Tracking Improved interaction with UNFCCC Secretariat and UN-REDD GEO Secretariat to attend the forthcoming REDD+ partnership meeting at Ministerial level, on 26 October in Nagoya-Japan Potential cooperation between GEO FCT and UNFCCC/EPA GHG Capacity Building Project under discussion Nepal has asked to become a National Demonstrator and all pre-requisites are fulfilled GFOI planning phase under preparation GEO FCT booth at GEO VII-Ministerial Summit Exhibition GEO FCT booth at Forest Day 4 (5 December in Cancun, during COP 16); GEO FCT presentation under discussion Some difficulties in implementing efficient day-to-day interfaces with National Demonstrator Connection with National Authorities to be reinforced

10 Global Carbon Observation and Analysis System The GEO Carbon Community of Practice has updated the GEO Carbon Strategy Identification of observation gaps Solutions for removing these gaps The terrestrial and oceanic parts of the strategy are still underdeveloped

11 SuperSites

12 Seismic Risk from L-band InSAR PALSAR interferogram (Falk Amelung, Miami Univ) Synthetic Interferogram (Eric Calais, Purdue Univ)

13 The Haiti Supersite The Geohazard Supersites provided a portal for optimizing the data acquisition strategy and sharing of preliminary information amongst scientists. The rebuilding community is challenged not only by the scale of the devastation, but also by the very real possibility that Port-au-Prince may face another devastating earthquake within the next one or two decades. This risk needs to be considered when policy makers decide where and how to rebuild.

14 GEONETCast Now Fully Operational New Product Navigator and Training & Alert Channels Contributors EUMETSAT CMA NOAA Global Broadcast of Environmental Information ROSHYDROMET

15 Global Datasets Good progress achieved on Land Cover, One Geology, Digital Soil Maps Cross-cutting use still quite limited: Data management to be improved Full-and-open ASTER Global GDEM an important step in data sharing. A second release of the ASTER GDEM is in preparation.

16 Ministerial Summit Showcases Health Carbon Geo Hazards Capacity Building GEOBON Asian / Water 31 booths have been booked for the Summit Exhibition. Many booths involve CEOS Agencies

17 Issues for the Future

18 1. Data Access Policies Charter on Disasters shows its limitations (Pakistan floods: restrictive data policies prevented data access to several space datasets). Forest Carbon Tracking scheme should be replicated for Supersites and agriculture monitoring (and water management). How will CEOS members respond?

19 Extending Charter on Space and Major Disasters Access 45 GEO Members do not have an Authorized User to activate the Charter. In response to GEO request for access for all GEO Members, the Charter Board endorsed the principle of «universal access» for all states.

20 Coordination and Interoperability Sentinel Asia WINDS receiving station at ICIMOD

21 Data Sharing Action Plan and Data CORE DATA SHARING = TOP PRIORITY GEO Summit is to adopt a Data Sharing Action Plan: actions are on Governments and GEO as a whole. Among these is the establishment of a GEOSS Data CORE: All Members and PO solicited to contribute datasets into a pool of fully and openly accessible data CEOS Agencies holders of major data resources

22 2. Data Management CEOS and CEOS Agencies are in a leading role in most Tasks. Barrier to progress: A general issue is the need for more interactions across Tasks, Transverse themes and Societal Benefit Areas. Forest Carbon Tracking scheme should be replicated for Supersites and agriculture monitoring (and water management).

23 Land Surface Imaging Portal LSI is particularly important to GEOSS Further efforts for the benefit of users are needed (standardized tools and search function across providers, graphic support, )

24 GEO FCT Portal allows data query

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26 Global Agricultural Monitoring (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, EC, France, India, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa, USA, ESA, FAO & WMO) FASAL - India

27 JECAM: Joint Experiments on Crop Assessment and Monitoring Agricultural Monitoring Task AG-07-03

28 JECAM is a GEO Agriculture Monitoring Community of Practice initiative to: Enhance international collaboration around agricultural monitoring towards the development of a systems of systems to address issues associated with the use of earth observations for food security and a sustainable and a profitable agricultural sector worldwide JECAM will achieve this objective by: Facilitating the inter-comparison of monitoring and modeling methods, product accuracy assessments, data fusion and product integration for agricultural monitoring A network distributed regional experiments on cropland pilot sites around the world representing a range of agricultural systems Acquiring, sharing and analyzing time series datasets from a variety of earth observing satellites and in-situ data refining the EO requirements

29 JECAM Progress November 2009, the first JECAM meeting was held in Canada A January 2010, call to provide standardized documentation of research sites resulted in 7 initial sites documented: Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Belgium\France, 3 in China. (an additional 8 sites are anticipated) March 2010, a website was launched for the JECAM initiative containing detailed information on experimental objectives, location, extent and data needs for each site: September 28 th, a JECAM meeting was held in Hong Kong to focus on Asian sites, data sharing principles and EO satellite data needs. The meeting resulted in a set of draft in-situ data sharing principles October 15 th meeting, Brussels will focus on JECAM Europe and Africa April / May 2011 JECAM South America Meeting tied to XV SBSR Symp. Brazil.

30 JECAM Site Overview JECAM sites are relatively small, well defined geographic areas. Experiments span 3-5 years (allowing for repeat testing of methods) Due to ecosystem differences the experiments will test a variety of techniques incorporating a wide range of optical and radar data sets CEOS assistance is sought to help acquire EO satellite data In-situ data, satellite data and research methodologies will be shared between experimental sites JECAM sites are looking at a common range of monitoring needs over a very diverse range of landscape conditions and cropping systems. Including: Crop identification and acreage estimation Yield prediction Near Real Time Crop condition \ Crop stress Land management Soil moisture estimation Effects of climate change

31 JECAM Satellite Data Requirements Fairly common list of needs across sites, including but not limited to: Optical Systems AWiFS, 56 m, Multi-spectral SPOT- 4/5, m, Multispectral Landsat- 4/5, 30 m, Multispectral RapidEye, 6.5 m, Multi-spectral LISS-3, 23.5 m, Multi-spectral LISS-4, 5.8 m, Multi-spectral Orthophotos, RGB, Multispectral Microwave Systems Radarsat-2: C-Band, 8-50 m TerraSAR-X: X-Band, 6 M ALOS PALSAR: L-Band, m Envisat ASAR: C-Band, 30 m AMSR-E: Passive C-Band X- Band, 60 km SMOS: Passive L-Band, 50 km A technical meeting needed with CEOS to develop a workable data acquisition plan

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33 Integrated Water Cycle Management Estimating Runoff from Space? DS = P E Q DS = Change in water storage P = Precipitation E = Evapo-transpiration Q = Runoff

34 3. GEO Global Forest Observations Initiative (Australia, Brazil, China, Finland, Japan, Norway, USA, EC, FAO, GOFC-GOLD,CEOS)

35 Recommendations to CEOS Data Sharing: Strive to establish stable CEOS Agencies data policies in line with GEOSS Data Sharing Principles Contribute CEOS resources to the Data CORE Resource Discovery: Populate the GCI Registries with CEOS resources and Provide the tools for User-friendly Discovery Connect: Realise the transverse nature of CEOS-led tasks and strengthen the connections with in-situ observation networks (as in FCT) Harmonise and coordinate new initiatives (ensure they are integrated into the Work Plan, e.g., SERVIR Himalaya)

36 Thank you!