GEO101 FOSS4G August 2019
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A short introduction to GEO governance, the GEO Work Programme and the GEO community for the FOSS4G audience. Contributions on GEOGLOWS, eShape and GEOHack19 from Julia Wagemann, Valentina Balcan and Diana Mastracci.
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GEO101 FOSS4G August 2019
- 1. GEO 101 Steven Ramage, GEO Secretariat @steven_ramage / sramage@geosec.org
- 2. How does GEO work? GEO major decisions taken at annual Plenary, guided by Executive Committee (16 countries), Programme Board and the GEO Secretariat based in Geneva. The community collaborates to improve the availability, access, understanding and use of Earth observations for the benefit of society and long-term sustainability of our planet. Group on Earth Observations
- 3. Member Countries Group on Earth Observations
- 4. Participating Organizations Group on Earth Observations
- 5. Core (GEO) Operational Long-term • GEOSS Infrastructure, incl. GEO Knowledge Hub • GEO Work Programme, e.g. EO4SDG, GEO Blue Planet, GEOBON, GEOGLAM, GEOGLOWS, GFOI, GOS4M • UN Agenda 2030, Sendai Framework and Paris Climate Agreement • CBD, Aichi, New Urban Agenda • Policy input • Open data/science • Capacity development •Members, partners (POs) & associates •Regional GEOs GEO overview Opportunities for FOSS4G collaboration
- 6. Core (GEO) Operational Long-term • GEOSS Infrastructure, incl. GEO Knowledge Hub • GEO Work Programme, e.g. EO4SDG, GEO Blue Planet, GEOBON, GEOGLAM, GEOGLOWS, GFOI, GOS4M • UN Agenda 2030, Sendai Framework and Paris Climate Agreement • CBD, Aichi, New Urban Agenda • Policy input • Open data/science • Capacity development •Members, partners (POs) & associates •Regional GEOs GEO overview Opportunities for FOSS4G collaboration
- 7. GEO activities at a glance The GEO Work Programme is the primary instrument to plan and implement GEO activities. The work programme for 2020-2022 is now under review. http://earthobservations.org/gwp2 020_dev.php Implementation plans are publicly available.
- 8. Focus areas are the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on Climate and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. UN-Habitat recently invited the GEO Secretariat to support ongoing efforts around Sustainable Development Goal 11 and the New Urban Agenda through the GEO Work Programme. GEO Engagement Priorities
- 9. 7 0 + : F L A G S H I P S , I N I T I A T I V E S & C O M M U N I T Y A C T I V I T I E S S C O R E S O F C O U N T R I E S T H O U S A N D S O F C O L L A B O R A T O R S H U N D R E D S O F $ M I L L I O N S I N V E S T E D I M P A C T O N B I L L I O N S O F L I V E S GEO Work Programme
- 10. GEO flagships and initiatives
- 11. GEO Global Water Sustainability Initiative (GEOGLOWS) GEO 101 @FOSS4G 2019 Julia Wagemann – ECMWF On behalf of the GEOGLOWS Partnership 30 August 2019 / Bucharest, Romania @JuliaWagemann / julia.wagemann@ecmwf.int
- 12. The hydrological Cycle is Complex 90% of disasters are water- related Water scarcity affects 4 out of 10 people Scientific and computational challenge to understand and simulate the water cycle
- 13. In situ streamflow monitoring systems In-situ information critical to capture natural and influenced flows Observations are the gold standard But … - Expensive to obtain and manage - Monitoring equipment ‘fragile’ - Technological, policy and cultural barriers to data sharing Rainfall & Snow Meteorology Soil Water Remote Sensing Water Quantity and Quality
- 14. Improve Water Intelligence Lack of information = uninformed decisions It is our responsibility to find better solutions - Understanding of the hydrologic system is incomplete - Vision: web-based applications to share flow information to address water challenge
- 15. Global Streamflow Forecast Paradigm shift: from data provision to service provision for the hydrological community - No need for individual infrastructure - Easy access to streamflow forecasts - Use of information according to local prioritised needs - Leverage existing hydro-met expertise to focus on decision-making tools Global Data PAST – Individual Hydrologic Forecasting Global Services NOW – Global Hydrologic Forecasting
- 16. Overcoming Global Modelling Barriers Challenges and solutions Cyberinfrastructure and Workflows Web apps and web services Partnerships, trainings, and collaboration Accessibility tools and programmatic extraction
- 17. Copernicus Emergency Management Service Global Flood Awareness System GloFAS: EC operational global streamflow forecasting system - Forced by ECMWF ensemble - Flood events overview for next 30 days - Flood/drought seasonal outlook products - On-demand web and data services - Focus on large rivers of the world - Free service available to all - Work with NHMs, NGOs and private sector
- 18. Copernicus Emergency Management Service GloFAS in action: cycle Idai and floods in Mozambique – a ECMWF, Uni of Reading and Uni of Bristol collaboration - DfID (UK) requested emergency reports - Briefs within 4 hours of forecast release - Five reports between 21 March & 1 April - Headline messages of future evolution - Expert interpretation of GloFAS forecasts - Estimation of population impacted
- 19. GEOGLOWS vision and service Global Streamflow Forecast: large-scale system for local applications - Stream-scale river discharge modelling - Probabilistic Earth-System-Model runoff forecasts (ECMWF IFS) up to 15-days - Web-applications as tools to visualise and download forecasts - Partnership Brigham Young Uni & ESRI Runoff Runoff Hydrograph Catchment Boundary Stream Network with Runoff Hydrograph Multiscale Temporal Map Service Web Applications
- 20. GEOGLOWS Global Streamflow Forecast Workflow ECMWF BYU/ SERVIR/ Azure Tethys Server
- 21. Actionable information Pilot services across the world: USA, Tanzania, Peru, Columbia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Dominican Republic, Brazil - Driven by ECMWF ensemble forecasts - Demonstrated in first pilot in US (2015) - Many national-scale applications - Data served through API access - Custom view using webservices
- 22. Next step: Global quasi-operation system Scaling it up: a global service for local actions through high density forecasts for every river of the world - 2-year project, funded by the World Bank - Scaling tools to global service - System to be implemented - Migration of algorithms to ECMWF in a next phase Spatial Databases and Tools Model Files Custom Python Scripts Simple Web Interfaces Engineers, Decision Makers, Advocacy Groups, Public
- 23. Basanta Raj Shrestha Director Strategic Cooperation ICIMOD “GEOGLOWS has been extremely useful to customize international knowledge for use in regional and local level contexts.” JOIN US!
- 24. Contact Angelica Gutierrez – NOAA – GEOGLOWS chair Jim Nelson – Brigham Young University Christel Prudhomme - ECMWF Christel.Prudhomme@ecmwf.int
- 25. • Delivering an integrated European contribution to GEOSS and increasing GEOSS benefits for Europe; • Acting as an incubator in cooperation with Copernicus/European countries/organisations to produce & test EO services and applications • Delivering specific EO applications benefiting from integrating global datasets made available through GEOSS; • Promoting, scaling up and developing EO applications in association with users; and • Building on Copernicus Data & Information Access Services (DIAS ) + Horizon 2020 resources. EuroGEO – value provided
- 26. Copernicus-enabled business opportunities e-shape & PARSEC, key projects at your service Valentina Balcan, Consultant
- 27. Young company specialising in Commercialisation of R&D results Communication, Outreach and Marketing Strategy consulting Service provider for all actors across the value chain EU Institutions (DG GROW, DG RTD) European Agencies (ESA, GSA, SatCen, EEA, ECMWF) Private Sector (EARSC, EO and GNSS companies) Wide range of EO-related activities Copernicus User Uptake Activities (SEA, CAMS, CMEMS) ESA studies (SEBS, Big Data for Migration) GEO projects (e.g. GEO-CRADLE) H2020 projects (APOLLO, EOMORES, e-shape, PARSEC, CYBELE, FIRE) Evenflow, actor involved in EO-related market uptake and commercialisation activities
- 28. Access to Knowledge Understanding user requirements Monitoring policy priorities Capturing market, technology and investment trends Access to Capital Receiving incubation and acceleration support Tapping into relevant funding schemes and vehicles Access to Technology Having continuous access to EO data (satellite, in-situ, airborne, etc.) Utilising necessary tools (data analytics, cloud resources, etc.) Access to Markets Getting coordinated support for export promotion Being involved in cross-border and cross-sectoral matchmaking Receiving investment readiness support Must haves for a successful commercialisation of EO services Idea Business Plan Marketable Product Commercialisation Expansion CAPITAL MARKETS KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGY ACCESS TO LEAN DEVELOPMENT EXPORT PROMOTION VENTURE CAPITAL INSIGHTS
- 29. e-shape and PARSEC, projects in support of EO commercialisation This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 820852
- 30. e-shape will: Coordinate European EO activities and their contribution to GEO/GEOSS Build capacity across different actors in the EO sector Boost the sustainability of European EO solutions How? Bringing together best European expertise in EO activities and develop mature user-centric solutions (see pilots) Develop tools that can help the whole community strengthen the value proposition of EO solutions How can I get involved? Follow e-shape website Apply for the onboarding process and become a project partner (we are not a closed club!) Use the tools we are developing (e.g. sustainability booster)that Copernicus data sets combined with the necessary in-situ data, weather and soil data can deliver improved information at global, national and local scale, exploiting the processing infrastructures offered by Copernicus DIAS. e-shape: pan-European effort to scale up EO-based applications 54partners 27 pilots 7 thematic areas 4 year grant
- 32. PARSEC: Innovation fuelled by Earth Observation PARSEC will: Accelerate disruptive EO-based products and services in the Food, Energy and Environment sectors Distribute €2.5 Million equity-free funding to catapult 15 new ideas into the market How: Setting up coaching and mentoring environments (incl. bootcamp) Providing tools to help you overcome key barriers (Big Data Toolbox, In-situ Data Hub, eoMALL) Offering market and technology insights How can I get involved? Follow us at www.parsec-accelerator.eu to learn more about the open call Terms and Conditions Application opening in early autumn 2019.
- 33. PARSEC overview and call structure
- 35. Results-oriented GEOSS The first decade Focus on provision of open data [ongoing challenge]. The future Focus on results based on open science, notably reproducibility.
- 36. Results-oriented GEOSS The driver for change Easy access to the products and services developed in GEO. Access to methods, code, models, source data, scientific papers, etc. Enable others to reuse the results in their country, based on local circumstances. Create a broad global network of EO practitioners who control the tools they use, they are not just consumers of information.
- 37. Results-oriented GEOSS Seeking more R and Python users/experts
- 38. @geosec2025 www.earthobservations.org @geosec2025 www.earthobservations.org Multi-satellite data Cloud platformsReusable, shared knowledge In-situ observations APIsAPIs Empowered, global experts Results-oriented GEOSS
- 39. @geosec2025 www.earthobservations.org EO data Co-design and co-production Robust and reliable results Trust is the key! Strengthening Institutions
- 40. #(G)EOHack19 By and for Indigenous youth communities Diana Mastracci, John Pring, Steven Ramage, Paola De Salvo
- 41. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ACCOUNT FOR MOST OF THE WORLD’S CULTURAL DIVERSITY
- 44. INCREASE ELDER-YOUTH INTERACTIONS Student interviewing his Elder as part of a student directed movie on climate change. North Slope of Alaska. NSBSD/NASA
- 45. INCREASE CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION Barrow High School students giving a lecture to NASA scientists on traditional knowledge NSBSD/NASA
- 46. MAINTAIN AND STRENGHTEN LOCAL CULTURE Student sharing his in-situ data with his whaling captain as part of a Sea Ice Citizen Science Project NSBSD/NASA
- 47. (G)EOHack19 COMBINING TK WITH SCIENCE ACROSS CULTURAL AND GENERATIONAL LINES.
- 48. Pre-hacks with Indigenous youth and Elders
- 50. MENTORS
- 52. WE NEED YOUR HELP! MENTORS/SPONSORS/HACKERS
- 53. “EO and the World’s Indigenous Peoples” Tuesday 5th of November 2019 Side event during GEO Week Organized by the Government of Australia, Conservation International, NASA Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA), GEO EO Citizen Science Community Activity
- 54. THANK YOU! Email: diana.mastracci@gtc.ox.ac.uk Twitter: @Dmastracci «To a wise man, the whole Earth is open, because the true country of a virtuous soul is the entire universe» Democritus 450 B.C.
- 57. Canberra Ministerial Summit 2019 “Earth observations: investments in the digital economy”
- 59. Contact Steven Ramage @steven_ramage / sramage@geosec.org #GEOWeek19 Collaborate and communicate with GEO:
Editor's Notes
- There is now a Foundational Task in the GEO work programme for the Engagement Priorities including commercial sector engagement, communications and resource mobilisation.
- We live in a world where 90 percent of natural disasters are water-related, and water scarcity affects four out of ten people. The hydrologic cycle is complex from the atmosphere, to the land surface, to river networks and floodplains. Understanding and simulating the cycle has been a challenge scientifically, complicated by the vast amount of computational and human resources it requires.
- The most relevant information for streamflow has always been in-situ observations that capture flows both natural and altered from the impacts of man-made control structures. However, while in situ streamflow observations remain a “gold standard” they are expensive to obtain and manage, subject to vandalism and rapid disrepair. Further, data are not widely shared because of technological, policy, and cultural barriers.
- In too many ways, and places, our understanding of the hydrologic system is incomplete and humanity suffers from a lack of information that leads to uninformed decisions. As experts, decision-makers, and policy-drivers it is our responsibility to find better solutions. What if you could know the flow of every river in the world forecasted days or weeks in advance, and accessed through a simple web map, or retrieved as a service for local application? What if you could also access decades of historical climatological flow from the same simple web map? How would this change how your country understands and addresses its water challenges?
- Earth-systems
- The global streamflow services completely changes the paradigm for how streamflow information is created and disseminated. Traditionally, each water organization was required to have the expensive infrastructure and capacity to access large global datasets and develop their own models to forecast streamflow useful for decision-makers. Using the GEOGLOWS global streamflow services they no longer have to have their own internal infrastructure for modeling, but instead can access the streamflow forecasts through web services and use them according to their own prioritized needs. This freely provided streamflow information, which leverages the hydrometeorological computational expertise of the GEOGLOWS Partnership, saves millions of dollars and allows national and local agencies to focus precious resources on developing solutions and applications specific to their local water resources management needs.
- Communication: information has to be brought to people in a understandable way – visualization can be done via web services – challenge to understand how the information can be communicated in the right way Adoption: any forecast produced and communicated, need to be understood, adopted, trusted by the local people – we need a lot of training – users need to be trained, that they are aware of what can be done and what cannot be done, interpretation of the results – idea of partnership, in order to create the tools that are needed that can be adopted / assimilated by local users – co-design services built as much as possible You can have a nice website, nice tools, but it is useless, if local people do not know that it exists and how they can use it Quality of modelled data and how it can be verified: it is very challenging – in-situ data is not everywhere and it might not right and it might not be shared – there is a lot of work needed to verify the modelled results and the uncertainty - First step: in order to properly verify the results, Reforecasts will be generated – as part of building the system, reforecasts have to be built and made available to users - Longer aspiration: verification and validation is share between the users and the service providers, they can share data of the verification – if the sharing of the data is still a barrier, but they share the verification rather than the data itself (this is a possible workaround) (atm : verification and validation is not done as much as possible, but cannot be done locally)
- GloFAS is a global streamflow forecasting system co-developed by the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts and the EC Joint Research Centre, It is the Early Warning Service for global floods of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service. GloFAS, provides freely available flood warning information across the world for up to 30 days, and seasonal outlooks on high and low flows up to 12 weeks ahead. The service includes a web-based interactive forecast viewer and on-demand data access However, as with most global systems, it is designed for large rivers, and its the resolution is not sufficient to support local decision-making. Furthermore it currently lacks services for automatic data retrieval necessary for use in other applications.
- Example of use of GloFAS: request by Uk Governement Department for International Development to provide scientific briefings to help coordinate relief efforts after Cycle Idai devastated Mozambique and Malawi. Request cam the 20th March 2019 afternoon, with the first briefing report produced by ECMWF, the University of Reading and the University of Bristol the 21st March lunchtime, following the released of GloFAS forecast mid morning. Help focused on extracting headline messages on future evolution of the floods and their recession, and possible impact on number of people potentially affected by the floods. Five reports produced, distributed by DfID within the country and with their help relief partners
- As we said earlier, GloFAS is really designed to provide information for large rivers. Through an effort led by BYU and Esri, which grew out of NOAA’s effort to build a National Water Model in 2015, a derivative application of the ECMWF global runoff forecasts was developed to map and route the global runoff through a stream network to produce localized 15-day forecasts and a 35- year simulated historical streamflow on every river. This national system demonstrated that globally generated forecasts could be useful at a local level, especially when it is coupled by web applications that provide new ways to visualize and download data on individual streams. They wanted demonstrate Implementing the concept to use river runoffs on a global scale (coarse resolution), then they downscaled it to route it through a river network – the demonstration showed that it is possible – example bases on US Demonstration of concept --> locally relevant information can be provided
- The successful US pilot, motivated the NASA/USAID SERVIR Program to apply the streamflow forecast applications in their Hindu-Kush Himalaya Hub led by ICIMOD. Separate national forecasts were developed for Nepal, Bangladesh and other countries in South Asia where the ability to create, operate, maintain and disseminate good hydrologic information is resource-limited. The SERVIR Project further demonstrated that a global streamflow forecast service, developed from the collective GEOGLOWS Partnership expertise, could fill gaps and provide actionable information to national and local agencies charged with the responsibilities of water supply and extreme weather/water management
- Basanta Shrestha of ICIMOD, who is helping to lead the Himalayan GEOSS, commented: ”Partnering with the GEOGLOWS Global Streamflow initiative has been extremely useful to customize international knowledge for use in the regional and local level contexts.” But this is just the beginning; so much more can be done as partnerships are developed in every country, through initiatives within GEO and with organizations around the world to achieve the full potential. We hope it will support further in-situ data being made accessible in the public domain. We invite you to join our GEOGLOWS partnership and help us learn how it can better meet your needs while working with us to improve this global service in every corner of the earth.
- There is now a Foundational Task in the GEO work programme for the Engagement Priorities including commercial sector engagement, communications and resource mobilisation.
- access to knowledge The provided market knowledge aims to impact strategic and tactical decisions along the entire innovation chain so that services are in line with user needs, sound financial planning is in place, IPR is managed, policy perspective in understood, etc. access to capital 32% of space companies are established in Western Europe but received only 8% of global investments between 2013-2017 (Fubiani, 2018). The projects will provide innovation driven companies with a clear overview of the capital landscape, and training to increase their investment readiness. access to markets The projects seeks to address the high degree of market fragmentation across Europe through matchmaking and networking actions.
- Both projects seek to power up EO commercialization
- The pilots are accompanied along the 'last mile' of their innovation process, thus enabling pre-operational services which could extend / reinforce other GEO initiatives. The main goal of this learning process is to accelerate the transformation of GEO from a data-centric to a user driven partnership. GEO priorities: SDGs, Paris Agreement all nations working together to combat and adapt to climate change, Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Thematic areas: food security and sustainable agriculture, health surveillance (pollutants), renewable energy, ecosystem monitoring, water resources management, disasters resilience and climate monitoring. Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture Showcase contributes largely to SDG 2. Consists of 4 pilots, which all showcase that Copernicus data sets combined with the necessary in-situ data, weather and soil data can deliver improved information at global, national and local scale, exploiting the processing infrastructures offered by Copernicus DIAS. Health Surveillance Showcase contributes to SDG 3. The 3 pilots focus on pollutant surveillance to assess impact on both environment & public health (in-situ and space-based observations). Aim improve the policy making process and support assessment of effectiveness of any measures undertaken by the nations to achieve these goals as set by international conventions. Renewable Energy Showcase, 3 pilots, will engage collaborations between research centers, data providers and end users both in the private and public energy sector. Focus on SDG 7; it will exploit different European EO sources to provide innovative and technology mature products and services for renewable energy development and management. myECOSYSTEM Showcase will serve focal user groups amongst which research, environmental assessment, reporting and management by offering seamless access to consistently scaled environmental information on ecosystems from various sources. It will contribute to SDG 11, 14 and 15. Water Resources Management Showcase 5 pilot activities focusing on different elements, going from inland waters to coastal areas and the ocean, providing a link to most of the European Directives and Policies and the SDG 6, 7, 13 and 14. Disasters Resilience Showcase deals with a portfolio of services focusing on natural and human induced disasters (geo-hazards, extreme weather, fires, floods, etc.) looking to protect citizens, economies and ecosystems. Supports the goals set by the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction and SDG2 and SDG11. Climate Showcase is contributing to SDG 13 & the Paris Agreement. Its pilots serve public, private and academia through very differently scaled missions (city – urban resilience to extreme weather or global – GHG monitoring, hydropower show reservoirs, seasonal preparedness-Copernicus Climate Change Serv C3S
- The implementation leverages existing distributed assets (DIAS, GEOSS Platform, NextGEOSS platform, EOSC, …) for developing the pilots. e-shape will establish co-design and co-create environments for its pilots and their end-users to develop new, user-friendly EO based services. Following suit a series of guidelines will be produced to enable replication and multiplication in the long run. Moreover, a self-standing and, ideally, self-sustainable support office will be envisaged with the clear aim of acting as a sustainability booster. The effectiveness of the proposed tools will be monitored and adjusted to ensure real impact and best practices will be shared both internally and with the community.
- O1 To foster cross-border and cross-sectoral collaboration enabling better access to integrated knowledge and inducing SMEs’ innovation and entrepreneurship potential O2 To deliver three Large Scale Demonstrators (LSDs) providing the tools for the development of new products and services that will bring key benefits across the value chain of three emerging industries (food, energy and environment). O3 To run an innovative “Open Call” scheme, whereby excellent teams of SMEs and start-ups are selected and subsequently supported in delivering EO-based services with strong business potential O4 To provide a holistic set of supporting services to European SMEs and start-ups, towards increasing the business success potential of EO-based solutions and their market penetration in key emerging industries O5 To maximise the impact of the activities through well-defined communication and dissemination activities, a tailored innovation and IPR management approach and a robust sustainability strategy Big Data Toolbox: Helps with pre-processing, integration, sampling, data fusion, analytics and visualization of heterogeneous data
- 1st Open Call / Call for Teams : Autumn 2019 2nd Call / Call for Consortia : Spring 2020
- Easy access to the products and services developed in the GWP. Access to methods, code, models, source data, etc. used to produce those products and services. Enable others to replicate the results in their own country, using their own data, and adapted to their own circumstances.
- The Group on Earth Observations has been in existence for more than a decade to support countries around the world to make decisions relating to societal benefit areas, including agriculture, biodiversity, climate, disasters, energy, forestry, oceans and others. Our goal is to help national governments understand the science and technology, as well as the value of open Earth observations data and information for policy, decision making and action. We are lowering the barrier to entry for national governments while working on institutional strengthening. The private sector plays a key role in supporting governments worldwide and in GEO this is primarily done through the GEO work programme.
- Call to action -