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.
National level strategy for Open Principles in GeospatialSuchith Anand
This session at FOSS4G UK conference 2016 at the Ordnance Survey UK is aims to start the process of bringing together interested participants from government, industry and academia to discuss ideas on best practices in open source geospatial implementations, open data, open standards, opportunities for geo industry, migration to open source GIS ,economic benefits, accelerating innovation ecosystems , skills development and educational opportunities, creating highly skilled jobs, expanding startups and accelerating the digital economy. There is a need for having a national level strategy for enabling the public sector to save money, innovate and make more effective policy decisions.
Geo for All - Empowering communities for a better world Suchith Anand
This presentation gives an overview of the Geo for All initiative. This was presented at the FOSS4G UK 2016 conference at Ordnance Survey, Southampton UK
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.
National level strategy for Open Principles in GeospatialSuchith Anand
This session at FOSS4G UK conference 2016 at the Ordnance Survey UK is aims to start the process of bringing together interested participants from government, industry and academia to discuss ideas on best practices in open source geospatial implementations, open data, open standards, opportunities for geo industry, migration to open source GIS ,economic benefits, accelerating innovation ecosystems , skills development and educational opportunities, creating highly skilled jobs, expanding startups and accelerating the digital economy. There is a need for having a national level strategy for enabling the public sector to save money, innovate and make more effective policy decisions.
Geo for All - Empowering communities for a better world Suchith Anand
This presentation gives an overview of the Geo for All initiative. This was presented at the FOSS4G UK 2016 conference at Ordnance Survey, Southampton UK
Earth Observation: Policies, Strategies, Opportunities and Institutional Land...Polytechnic of Namibia
Earth Observation: Policies, Strategies, Opportunities and Institutional Landscape in South Africa and SADC by Mr Imraan Saloojee. Delivered at the 2nd The Earth Observation Satellite Applications Research and Training Centre (EOSA-RTC) Symposium on 24 July 2013 at the Hilton Hotel, Windhoek
TITLE: Open Standards Role in EarthCube (Invited)
AUTHORS (FIRST NAME, LAST NAME): Luis E Bermudez1, David K Arctur2, 1, George Percivall1
INSTITUTIONS (ALL): 1. Open Geospatial Consortium, Gaithersburg, MD, United States.
2. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
ABSTRACT BODY: EarthCube is an NSF initiative that will enable sharing of data in an open and transparent manner, improving access and use of data, allowing scientists to better understand the Earth. EarthCube is based on a network of enthusiasts willing to make the sharing of data a reality. But is just having open data enough? Open data will not accelerate the process a scientist team needs to go through to understand, reformat and use the data. However, agreements among colleagues or adoption of agreements can make a big difference. These agreements also need to be published, freely available, and unpolluted from intellectual property rights issues. The system design requirements to develop cyberinfrastructure for Geosciences need to take into account these open agreements, including open interfaces and open encodings. Once open agreements are in place, it is essential to have in place policy and procedures, and a governance body for maintaining those agreements. This presentation will explore these issues and suggest ways the standard development organizations, like the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and other coordinating organizations, such as the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) and the Research Data Alliance (RDA), could be involved in this process.
http://www.opengeospatial.org
In AGU 2013 Session: IN43B. Emerging Concepts for Cyberinfrastructure in the Geosciences
Progress towards Open Standards-Based Agro-GeoinformaticsGeorge Percivall
Keynote presentation to Agro-Geoinformatics Conference
20 July 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
http://agro-geoinformatics.org/
** What is agro-geoinformatics and why need for exchange of Agriculture Geo-Information?
Efficient exchange of data on utilization of farmland, soil and crop characteristics, water availability, environmental impacts, …
Many user roles: growers, advisors, landowners, foodstuff processors, regulators and all levels of government
Major challenges to agricultural: climate change, increasing population, shortage of water and arable land
Increasing need for information standards to support transparency in agricultural goods and services markets
** Projects showing the progress of standards-based agro-geoinformatics technology
SoilML for information exchange
Soil information platforms
Precision Agriculture and In-situ networks
Remote sensing from satellites and drones
Big Data processing for decision support
Climate - Food - Water nexus
** OGC support of Agro-Geoinformatics
- Agriculture Domain Working Group
Identify geospatial interoperability challenges in agriculture domain
Forum to identify standards-based solutions, new standards
- Discrete Global Grid Systems standards development
Geometric partitioning of Earth surface into cells with identifiers
Enable fusion of disparate data for spatial analysis and modeling
- Soil Data Interoperability Experiment (SoilIE)
Testing standards for exchange of soils data
Results to converge and mature soil information standards.
Get involved as participant or an observer, contact:
David Medyckyj-Scott Medyckyj-Scottd@landcareresearch.co.nz
…and others
Slide presentations developed to demonstrate how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) be used to address climate change, and why ICTs are a crucial part of the solution – i.e. in promoting efficiency, Green Growth & sustainable development, in dealing with climate change and for climate and environmental action. These slide presentations were delivered in February 2011 in Seongnam, near Seoul in Korea.
These presentations were developed and delivered over 2.5 days on the occasion of a Regional Training of Trainers Workshop for upcoming Academy modules on ICT for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Abatement. These modules were developed as part of the Academy of ICT Essentials for Government leaders developed by the United Nations (UN) Asia Pacific Centre for ICT Training (APCICT), based in Songdo City, in the Republic of South Korea.
These presentations were developed in 2011, and are somewhat out of date, but most of the principles still apply. Module 10, which has been published, does not include much of the information outlined in these presentations, which are fairly technical. They were developed to address a significant gap in understanding of the technical basis of using ICTs for climate action and because there is a clear bias in development circles against the importance of dealing with climate change mitigation in developing countries. These presentations are an attempt to redress this lack and are published here with this purpose in mind.
The author, Richard Labelle, is presently working on updating these presentations to further highlight the importance of addressing climate change and the important role that technology including ICTs, play in this effort.
High-level Meeting & Workshop on Environmental and Scientific Open Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries. Madagascar, 4-6 December 2017
Scientific Knowledge from Geospatial ObservationsGeorge Percivall
Presentation to IGARSS 2015 Conference, July 205, Milan Italy.
Part of invited session: Why Data Matters: Value of Stewardship and Knowledge Augmentation Services
Lecture 8: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for Disaster Emergency Re...ESD UNU-IAS
Lecture 8: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for Disaster Emergency Response
Task Force Pendukung Data Spasial (TF-PDS)
Gempa Lombok (UGM)
2019 ProSPER.Net Young Researchers' School
5 March 2019
Keynote presentation to New Zealand Geospatial Research Conference 2015. This presentation covered emerging topics for geospatial research in four areas:
- Spatial Representation: urban models, CityGML, indoor and DGGS
- New Data Sources: sensors everywhere, IoT, UAVs citizen observations, social media
- Computer Engineering: Big data, moving features, spatial analytics, mobile, 3D portrayal, augmented reality
- Application Areas: Soils Interoperability Experiment, Urban Climate Resilience in OGC Testbed 11.
Presented by Christopher Martius, CIFOR Germany gGmbH, at "Scoping Workshop: Towards the Enhanced Transparency Framework for REDD+ MRV", ILRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 30 July 2021
Presentation Location and Context World, 2015. Palo Alto, CA November 3-4, 2015.
Abstract: Creating useful local context requires big data platforms and marketplaces. Contextual awareness is relevant to location based marketing, first responders, urban planners and many others. Location-aware mobile devices are revolutionizing how consumers and brands interact in the physical world. Situational awareness is a key element to efficiently handling any emergency response. In all cases, big data processing and high velocity streaming of location based data creates the richest contextual awareness. Data from many sources including IoT devices, sensor webs, surveillance and crowdsourcing are combined with semantically-rich urban and indoor data models. The resulting context information is delivered to and shared by mobile devices in connected and disconnected operations. Standards play a key role in establishing context platforms and marketplaces. Successful approaches will consolidate data from ubiquitous sensing technologies on a common space-time basis to enabled context-aware analysis of environmental and social dynamics.
Keynote, Oman Geospatial Expo, Dec 2013Steven Ramage
Invited by Geospatial Media and Oman National Survey Authority (NSA) to deliver overview of current activities relating to international geospatial standards, including ongoing work through United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM).
Plenary talk on examples of global GEO activities relevant to UN-GGIM regarding the Sendai Framework, Paris Agreement and the United Nations 2030 Agenda
Earth Observation: Policies, Strategies, Opportunities and Institutional Land...Polytechnic of Namibia
Earth Observation: Policies, Strategies, Opportunities and Institutional Landscape in South Africa and SADC by Mr Imraan Saloojee. Delivered at the 2nd The Earth Observation Satellite Applications Research and Training Centre (EOSA-RTC) Symposium on 24 July 2013 at the Hilton Hotel, Windhoek
TITLE: Open Standards Role in EarthCube (Invited)
AUTHORS (FIRST NAME, LAST NAME): Luis E Bermudez1, David K Arctur2, 1, George Percivall1
INSTITUTIONS (ALL): 1. Open Geospatial Consortium, Gaithersburg, MD, United States.
2. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
ABSTRACT BODY: EarthCube is an NSF initiative that will enable sharing of data in an open and transparent manner, improving access and use of data, allowing scientists to better understand the Earth. EarthCube is based on a network of enthusiasts willing to make the sharing of data a reality. But is just having open data enough? Open data will not accelerate the process a scientist team needs to go through to understand, reformat and use the data. However, agreements among colleagues or adoption of agreements can make a big difference. These agreements also need to be published, freely available, and unpolluted from intellectual property rights issues. The system design requirements to develop cyberinfrastructure for Geosciences need to take into account these open agreements, including open interfaces and open encodings. Once open agreements are in place, it is essential to have in place policy and procedures, and a governance body for maintaining those agreements. This presentation will explore these issues and suggest ways the standard development organizations, like the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and other coordinating organizations, such as the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) and the Research Data Alliance (RDA), could be involved in this process.
http://www.opengeospatial.org
In AGU 2013 Session: IN43B. Emerging Concepts for Cyberinfrastructure in the Geosciences
Progress towards Open Standards-Based Agro-GeoinformaticsGeorge Percivall
Keynote presentation to Agro-Geoinformatics Conference
20 July 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
http://agro-geoinformatics.org/
** What is agro-geoinformatics and why need for exchange of Agriculture Geo-Information?
Efficient exchange of data on utilization of farmland, soil and crop characteristics, water availability, environmental impacts, …
Many user roles: growers, advisors, landowners, foodstuff processors, regulators and all levels of government
Major challenges to agricultural: climate change, increasing population, shortage of water and arable land
Increasing need for information standards to support transparency in agricultural goods and services markets
** Projects showing the progress of standards-based agro-geoinformatics technology
SoilML for information exchange
Soil information platforms
Precision Agriculture and In-situ networks
Remote sensing from satellites and drones
Big Data processing for decision support
Climate - Food - Water nexus
** OGC support of Agro-Geoinformatics
- Agriculture Domain Working Group
Identify geospatial interoperability challenges in agriculture domain
Forum to identify standards-based solutions, new standards
- Discrete Global Grid Systems standards development
Geometric partitioning of Earth surface into cells with identifiers
Enable fusion of disparate data for spatial analysis and modeling
- Soil Data Interoperability Experiment (SoilIE)
Testing standards for exchange of soils data
Results to converge and mature soil information standards.
Get involved as participant or an observer, contact:
David Medyckyj-Scott Medyckyj-Scottd@landcareresearch.co.nz
…and others
Slide presentations developed to demonstrate how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) be used to address climate change, and why ICTs are a crucial part of the solution – i.e. in promoting efficiency, Green Growth & sustainable development, in dealing with climate change and for climate and environmental action. These slide presentations were delivered in February 2011 in Seongnam, near Seoul in Korea.
These presentations were developed and delivered over 2.5 days on the occasion of a Regional Training of Trainers Workshop for upcoming Academy modules on ICT for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Abatement. These modules were developed as part of the Academy of ICT Essentials for Government leaders developed by the United Nations (UN) Asia Pacific Centre for ICT Training (APCICT), based in Songdo City, in the Republic of South Korea.
These presentations were developed in 2011, and are somewhat out of date, but most of the principles still apply. Module 10, which has been published, does not include much of the information outlined in these presentations, which are fairly technical. They were developed to address a significant gap in understanding of the technical basis of using ICTs for climate action and because there is a clear bias in development circles against the importance of dealing with climate change mitigation in developing countries. These presentations are an attempt to redress this lack and are published here with this purpose in mind.
The author, Richard Labelle, is presently working on updating these presentations to further highlight the importance of addressing climate change and the important role that technology including ICTs, play in this effort.
High-level Meeting & Workshop on Environmental and Scientific Open Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries. Madagascar, 4-6 December 2017
Scientific Knowledge from Geospatial ObservationsGeorge Percivall
Presentation to IGARSS 2015 Conference, July 205, Milan Italy.
Part of invited session: Why Data Matters: Value of Stewardship and Knowledge Augmentation Services
Lecture 8: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for Disaster Emergency Re...ESD UNU-IAS
Lecture 8: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for Disaster Emergency Response
Task Force Pendukung Data Spasial (TF-PDS)
Gempa Lombok (UGM)
2019 ProSPER.Net Young Researchers' School
5 March 2019
Keynote presentation to New Zealand Geospatial Research Conference 2015. This presentation covered emerging topics for geospatial research in four areas:
- Spatial Representation: urban models, CityGML, indoor and DGGS
- New Data Sources: sensors everywhere, IoT, UAVs citizen observations, social media
- Computer Engineering: Big data, moving features, spatial analytics, mobile, 3D portrayal, augmented reality
- Application Areas: Soils Interoperability Experiment, Urban Climate Resilience in OGC Testbed 11.
Presented by Christopher Martius, CIFOR Germany gGmbH, at "Scoping Workshop: Towards the Enhanced Transparency Framework for REDD+ MRV", ILRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 30 July 2021
Presentation Location and Context World, 2015. Palo Alto, CA November 3-4, 2015.
Abstract: Creating useful local context requires big data platforms and marketplaces. Contextual awareness is relevant to location based marketing, first responders, urban planners and many others. Location-aware mobile devices are revolutionizing how consumers and brands interact in the physical world. Situational awareness is a key element to efficiently handling any emergency response. In all cases, big data processing and high velocity streaming of location based data creates the richest contextual awareness. Data from many sources including IoT devices, sensor webs, surveillance and crowdsourcing are combined with semantically-rich urban and indoor data models. The resulting context information is delivered to and shared by mobile devices in connected and disconnected operations. Standards play a key role in establishing context platforms and marketplaces. Successful approaches will consolidate data from ubiquitous sensing technologies on a common space-time basis to enabled context-aware analysis of environmental and social dynamics.
Keynote, Oman Geospatial Expo, Dec 2013Steven Ramage
Invited by Geospatial Media and Oman National Survey Authority (NSA) to deliver overview of current activities relating to international geospatial standards, including ongoing work through United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM).
Plenary talk on examples of global GEO activities relevant to UN-GGIM regarding the Sendai Framework, Paris Agreement and the United Nations 2030 Agenda
Climate Data Sharing for Urban Resilience - OGC Testbed 11George Percivall
OGC Testbed 11:
Delivering on our commitment to the Climate Data Initiative
In December 2014 the US White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) released a Policy Fact Sheet titled "Harnessing Climate Data to Boost Ecosystem & Water Resilience." The Fact Sheet includes OGC’s commitment to increase open access to climate change information using open standards. Testbed 11 results are now available delivering on that commitment.
The results of this major interoperability testbed contribute to development and refinement of international standards that are critical for the communication and integration of geospatial information. http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/testbed11
• Nine sponsors provided requirements and funding for Testbed 11.
• Thirty organizations participated in Testbed 11 by contributing prototypes, engineering
reports and participating in a scenario driven demonstration of the technical advances Technical results of Testbed 11 relevant to the Climate Data Initiative include:
• Analysis and prediction based on open climate data accessed using open standards
• Making predictive models more accessible with OGC Web Processing Service (WPS)
• Verifying model predictions using mobile operations, in-situ gauges and social media.
Climate adaptation, resilience and security planning based on technology from OGC Testbed 11:
• Estimating geographic extend of coastal inundation in dynamic weather conditions
• Assessing social unrest with displaced population due to climate change
• Integrating spatial and non-spatial models of human geography and resilience
• Predictive models and verifications to support planning and response phases
Overview of GEO activities to promote broad open Earth observations data and information, as well as insight into GEO engagement priorities and links to ISPRS.
The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) - remote sensing and i...CIMMYT
Remote sensing –Beyond images
Mexico 14-15 December 2013
The workshop was organized by CIMMYT Global Conservation Agriculture Program (GCAP) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Mexican Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), CGIAR Research Program on Maize, the Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) and the Sustainable Modernization of the Traditional Agriculture (MasAgro)
Presented during AO: Monitoring the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration – Launch of the Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (FERM) and Dryland Restoration Initiative Platform (DRIP) session of GLF Africa
CeRDI Research RUN Vietnam Agriculture GroupHelen Thompson
Federation University's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) is participating in the Regional University Network (RUN) Vietnam Agriculture Group. This presentation provides some background on CeRDI initiatives in eResearch.
Areas of focus include capacity building and engagement, research collaborations around soil management, water resources, land use, crop productivity, climate change and adaption, biodiversity, participatory GIS and citizen science.
Major technology and research trends link to ubiquitous high-speed broadband, the petabyte age, open data policies and the opportunities for Universities and particularly regional universities to play a significant role in generating insight from data.
Mobile technologies… App development and responsive design – for student and staff recruitment, engagement, knowledge transfer
3d and visualisation technologies… Massive innovation and research opportunities
Communications guidance for all GEO members and participating organisations (POs) regarding contributions to the GEO Work Programme, as well as wider involvement in the GEO community.
Multi-party session with Resilience Brokers, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and UN-Habitat. Discussing data, tools and methodologies for implementing systems approach in cities, as well as proposing language on Earth observations to be included in the New Urban Agenda.
S Ramage GEO UN-GGIM HLF Mexico Nov 2017Steven Ramage
Considerations around geospatial approaches for working on the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, including links between different SDGs, civil society participation and standards.
At the recent UN-GGIM for the Arab States meeting in Jordan I presented on the current status of UN-GGIM: Europe activities. This is a high level presentation for information only.
Global Dialogue on Sustainable Development_S Ramage_Ordnance Survey Internati...Steven Ramage
GROUP SESSION
Group 5:Measuring and Monitoring Sustainable Development
The power of location: everything happens somewhere.
Steven Ramage Head of Ordnance Survey International United Kingdom
Geospatial Intelligence Middle East 2013_Big Data_Steven RamageSteven Ramage
Some initial considerations and discussion points around geospatial big data. Location adds context and relevance. Need to consider a number of V factors including Value.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
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Monitoring Health for the SDGs - Global Health Statistics 2024 - WHOChristina Parmionova
The 2024 World Health Statistics edition reviews more than 50 health-related indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals and WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work. It also highlights the findings from the Global health estimates 2021, notably the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
Preliminary findings _OECD field visits to ten regions in the TSI EU mining r...OECDregions
Preliminary findings from OECD field visits for the project: Enhancing EU Mining Regional Ecosystems to Support the Green Transition and Secure Mineral Raw Materials Supply.
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
2. GEO Vision
To realize a future where decisions and actions, for the benefit of humankind, are informed by
coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observation information and services.
GEO Mission
GEO’s mission is to connect the demand for sound and timely environmental information with
the supply of data and information about the Earth. Advocacy for broad, open data policies
helps ensure that the data collected through national, regional and global observing systems is
both made available and applied to decision making for global priorities.
GEO Value
GEO is a partnership convening 105 national governments, 130+ partners comprised of
international bodies with a mandate in and/or use of Earth observations. There are also
international NGOs and the commercial sector contributing. Together, the GEO community is
creating a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) to better integrate observing
systems and share data by connecting existing infrastructures using common standards.
GEO Vision and Mission
4. Core (GEO)
Operational
Long-term
• GEOSS Infrastructure, incl.
GEO Knowledge Hub
• GEO Work Programme, e.g.
- Digital Earth Africa
- EO4SDG
- GEOGLAM, GEOGLOWS, etc.
• Engagement priorities:
SDGs and UN-GGIM/UNSD
• Policy support
• Open data/science
• Capacity development
•GEO members,
partners & associates
•Regional GEOs
GEO activities at a glance
5. 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 submitted for
scores of international activities,
including EO4SDG and a number of
these activities include the private
sector, ranging from Brockman
Consulting to Esri to Zurich Insurance.
Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
6. 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.
7. 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 of the tools they use, they are n
ot just consumers of information.
11. 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
12. EO4SDG key results achieved in 2017-2019
EO in SDG Methodologies
- SDG indicators 6.6.1, 6.3.2, 11.3.1, 11.7.1, 15.3.1
- Feasibility studies, pilot projects, in-depth endeavors
- Focus on scalability & replicability of methods
Capacity Development
- In-person training: UN-GGIM 8, RCMRD Intern.
Conf. 2018, AMERIGEO 2019
- Webinars (SDG awareness; thematic webinars)
- Contribution to UN-Habitat, UNEP and UNCCD
EO4SDG Side Event – GEO Week 2018
Stakeholder Engagement
- UN IAEG-SDG WGGI, UN-GGIM, UN Custodian Agencies
- Line ministries, NSOs, Mapping Agencies, GEO Community
SDG 11.3.1 Retrieved from: Training Module by UN-Habitat
EO4SDG Session: 2018 UN World Data Forum
GEO Report, ‘Earth Observations and
Sustainable Development Goals’
SDG 6.6.1 Technical Brief,
http://eo4sdg.org
EO4SDG website: http://eo4sdg.org
CEOS EO Handbook on SDGs,
http://eohandbook.com
Data & Information Products
- Survey to GEO Member Countries on EO data use with SDG
- Satellite data requirements, data acquisition, access,
discovery and usability (with CEOS, GEOGLAM)
13. GEO Associates means commercial and non-governmental,
not-for-profit and civil society organizations can join national
governments and international organizations as official GEO
collaborators with no fees involved.
GEO Associates enable the application and use of GEO’s
global solutions at regional and local scales. GEO Associates
must be registered in the territory of a GEO member
country, it’s the lead national government agency (GEO
Principal) that reviews and approves Associates.
Associates Category
14. • Framework for strengthening partnerships within Africa : AfriGEO
foster intra-continental partnership and connects Africa to
international partners and programmes;
• Coordination framework and platform for Africa’s participation in
GEO: understanding who is doing what where? Identifying
capabilities, synergies and linkages and reducing duplication;
• “Co-design enabler”: gathering user requirements, translating policy
needs to observations requirements by scientific community to
satellite specifications; and establishing communities of practice;
• Pan African initiative to raise awareness on EO : raising awareness on
the value of EO, availability of resources and tools to the EO
community and engaging with policy makers;
• Infrastructure: AfriGEO is working on a coordinated EO data
acquisition strategy for Africa Gateway into Africa for international
partners; and
• Centralized capacity building to guide implementation and adoption
of Earth observation to address key societal benefit areas (SBAs).
AfriGEO – value provided
17. • 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;
• Building on Copernicus Data & Information Access Services (DIAS ) +
Horizon 2020 resources; and
• Compliance with GEO engagement strategy: supporting the
implementation of UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
EuroGEO – value provided
18. GEO-AMAZON WEB SERVICES –
EARTH OBSERVATION CLOUD CREDITS PROGRAMME
21 projects announced in 17 developing countries.
http://www.earthobservations.org/article.php?id=362
GEO and AWS have awarded $1.5 million in grants, cloud
services and technical support for projects in developing
countries to use Earth observations to support sustainable
environmental development based on GEO priorities.
DevelopmentSeed and Sinergise have both supported this
programme from a European and North American perspective.
19. EO For Sustainable
Development
National Institute of Statistics
and Geography (INEGI,
Mexico)
Mexico/Colombia
South Asian drought
monitoring and outlook
system to support agricultural
advisory processes
ICIMOD Nepal
Operational monitoring
system of ground
deformations in
Nigeria
Department of
Geoinformatics and
Surveying, University of
Nigeria
Nigeria
Spatial Agricultural
Intelligence
African Regional Institute for
Geospatial Information
Science and Technology
(AFRIGIST)
Nigeria
Implementation of a service
of information to monitor the
degradation of Zones Marino
Coastal
Ministry of Environment /
Direction of Monitory and
Evaluation of the Natural
Resources of the Territory.
Peru
Automation of processes in
the cloud, for the generation
of mosaics of annual satellite
images free of clouds, to
contribute in the generation
of information on changes in
forest cover.
National Program for the
Conservation of Forests for
the Mitigation of Climate
Change of the Ministry of the
Environment of Peru
Peru
Air Quality Forecasting for
Africa
Kigali Collaborative Research
Center (KCRC)
Rwanda
AfriCultuReS Decision
Support System (ADSS)
Community Version
South African National Space
Agency
South Africa
Methodology for SDGs
indicators assessment
Space Research Institute
NAS Ukraine and SSA
Ukraine
Ukraine
Deep Learning for Satellite
Monitoring of Illegal Amber
Mining in Ukraine
Kharkiv National University Ukraine
Monitoring Rice Paddy and
Flood in the Lower Mekong
HCMC Space Technology
Application Center
Vietnam
Brazilian Earth Observation
Data Cube using AWS for
Land Use and Cover
Change
National Institute for Space
Research (INPE)
Brazil
Fire Monitoring Service Tsinghua University/China China
A Global Modeling Tool for
Nature’s Contributions to
People in Sustainable
Development
Ministry of Environment and
Energy
Costa Rica
Filtered Alert Hub Toolset
Cairo University, Electronics
and Electrical
Communications
Engineering Department
Egypt
Computing Groundwater
Potential in Arid and Semi-
arid parts of Ethiopia.
Ministry of Water, Irrigation
and Energy
Ethiopia
Capacity Building on
Monitoring of SDGs
Remote Sensing and
Climate Center
Ghana Space Science and
Technology Institute
Ghana
Integrating Earth
Observation Data with
Censuses and Sample
Surveys
to Estimate Development
Indicators for India
Indian Institute for Human
Settlements
India
AWS4AgriSAR-Crop
inventory mapping from
SAR data on cloud
computing platform
Centre of Studies in
Resources Engineering
(CSRE)
Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay
India
Global Mobile Tsunami
Warning System using
Amazon Web Sever—A
Life-Saving Platform
Ikatan Ahli Tsunami
Indonesia, Tsunami
Research Foundation
Indonesia
agriBORA - Geodata for
actionable farm intelligence
Kenya Agricultural and
Livestock Research
Organization
(KALRO)
Kenya
GEO–AWS
21 projects from
17 developing countries
20.
21. With daily Earth observation data, governments could monitor
erosion, sand mining and illegal development and then act to
stabilize fragile coastlines. Interconnected administrative systems
could help to give vulnerable people access to health facilities,
social services and entitlements. Data systems are the mortar with
which a sustainable planet and society will be built.
22. SDSNTReNDS.org/ValueOfData
Landsat has produced annual cost savings in the United States
ranging from US$350 million to $436 million for federal and state
governments, nongovernmental organizations, and the private
sector.
Landsat has provided an estimated worldwide economic benefit
as high as $2.19 billion as of 2011.
23. • Improving accessibility and documentation of data sets and data services
• Comparing and contrasting methods and implications of different data sources
• Convening technical experts from the geospatial and demographic monitoring communities at events and conferences
worldwide
• Developing an intercomparison report and tool that clarify how different data sets fit different needs for statisticians,
policymakers, development practitioners, and other applied users
24. THE
SOLUTIONS
AT HAND
• Multitude of pilots,
experiments, validated
methods
• Problem is countries’ lack of
access and capacity by
countries to scale up,
mainstream and sustain
DATA4NOW
We will increase the sustainable use of
robust methods and tools that improve the
timeliness, coverage, and quality of SDG
data through collaboration and
partnership, technical and capacity
support, and information sharing.
25. WHAT WILL
IT BE?
Number Of People In Extreme
Poverty
Number Of Women w/ Bank Account
Hectares Of Forest Cover
Volume Of Freshwater Resources
26. LINK TO
SDG
REPORTING
AND UN
DATA
PLATFORMS
• Fully integrate innovative methods and tools into
regular data production to inform the
implementation of the SDGs in country
• Increase the availability and use of timely data for
policy and decision-making on the SDGs at the
local and national levels
• Integrate the timely data into existing national
platforms for easy access by all users
• Timely data not only for monitoring – but crucial
to inform policies and action to achieve the SDGs
27. Building on the work done in the Africa Regional Data Cube
by CEOS, GPSDD and others, Digital Earth Africa will
provide a unique continental-scale platform that delivers
analysis ready data for operational purposes.
It will track changes across Africa in unprecedented detail,
and provide data on a vast number of issues, including soil
and coastal erosion, forest and desert development, water
quality and changes to human settlements.
Announcement in March 2019, that almost $18m USD has
been raised to support the launch of Digital Earth Africa.
28. SDG 6.6.1 - Water Extent
Lake Sulunga in Tanzania
From 2014 to 2018, there is a
net loss of 3.8% of water pixels.
Analysis followed the SDG 6.6.1a indicator
methodology (20 Jan 2017) and used the
Landsat WOFS water detection algorithm.
29. SDG 11.3.1 - Urbanization
Urbanization in Freetown, Sierra Leone – 2005 to 2015
Urban Growth = U = 4.8% per year (Landsat-8 NDBI, 0.3 threshold)
Population Growth = P = 3.0% per year (GPWv4 data)
SDG 11.3.1 Indicator = (U/P) = 1.58
People are rapidly moving out of the cities and taking over more land.
2005 2015
Analysis used the SDG 11.3.1 indicator formulas proposed by UN-HABITAT.
30. SDG 15.3.1 – Land Degradation
Analysis completed along the coast of Ghana, near Accra.
ESA CCI data was used for land classification training.
Analysis used the SDG 15.3.1 Good Practice Guidance document by CSIRO and UNCCD (Sept 2017).
4.4% Urban Expansion
31. What?
Support greater links with UN-GGIM, notably via fundamental data themes and UNSN;
Support greater connections of SDG activities across the GEO Work Programme; and
Support the international community to find missing data and provide more timely data.
How?
Share scientific papers, methods, algorithms and data to develop long-term capacity;
Work more closely with regional GEOs and align with regional UN-GGIM activities; and
Increase awareness, understanding and use of EO to inform the SDGs at a policy level:
consider developing an SDG MOOC (massive open online course) to build on the
successful webinars, as well as contributions to GEO Report on Progress 2015-2019.
Summary and recommendations