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Building a Global Earth ObservationSystem of Systems
Francesco GaetaniGEO Secretariat
The Group on Earth Observations - GEO
Outline of the presentation
GEO and GEOSS
The GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)
The Disasters Societal Benefit Area
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The Group on Earth ObservationsGEO is an Intergovernmental Organization and has 80 Members and 58 Participating Organizations, including:
� UN Organizations and Programs, such as FAO, IOC, ISDR, UNEP, UNESCO, UNFCCC, UNITAR/UNOSAT, UNOOSA,WMO
� other leading international Organizations in different domains, such as CEOS, ESA, EUMETSAT, FDSN, IAG, ICSU, OGC
The Group on Earth Observations is formed
The Group on Earth Observations, was established at the
EO Summit in 2005, in Brussels, with one majorobjective:
Establish a coordinated and sustained
Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)
to enhance informed decision making in different areas of the Society
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� Improve and Coordinate Observation Systems� Provide Easier & More Open Data Access� Foster Use (ST Applications)� Building Capacity for the use of EO data
GEO main objectives
GEOSS will be built from the expansion and interlinkingof existing observation and information systems and theinvestments of Members and Participating Organizations innew systems.
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• 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
Data to be seen as aninfrastructure, rather than a service
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Systems Interoperability:How different systems can work together
• Interoperability standards for Collecting, Processing, Storing, and Disseminating Data and Products
• Based on Non-proprietary Standards
GEOSS has not a monolithic approach.The GEOSS architecture will specify just those "few things that must be the same so that everything else can be different".
1. Reduction and Prevention of Disasters
2. Human Health and Epidemiology
3. Energy Management
4. Climate Variability & Change
5. Water Management
6. Weather Forecasting
7. The Ecosystems
8. Sustainable Agriculture
9. Biodiversity monitoring and conservation
GEOSS addresses Nine Societal Benefit Areas
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GEO Work Plan – What is it?
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Agreed framework for implementing the GEOSS 10-
Year Implementation Plan (2005-2015)
Set of practical Tasks carried out by various
GEO Members and Participating Organizations
Living Document – Annually updated
Two-Part Structure1 BUILDING AN INTEGRATED GEOSS (GEOSS Fundamentals)
ARCHITECTURE
DATA MANAGEMENT
CAPACITY BUILDING
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
USER ENGAGEMENT
2 THE 9 GEOSS SOCIETAL BENEFIT AREAS (GEOSS for Society)
DISASTERS
HEALTH
ENERGY
CLIMATE
WATER
WEATHER
ECOSYSTEMS
AGRICULTURE
BIODIVERSITY
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42 overarching Tasks including…Part 1 : BUILDING AN INTEGRATED GEOSS
1.1 ARCHITECTURE
AR-09-01: GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)
AR-09-02: Interoperable Systems for GEOSS
AR-09-03: Advocating for Sustained Observing Systems
AR-06-01: Radio Frequency Protection
CB-06-04: Dissemination and Distribution Networks
1.2 DATA MANAGEMENT
DA-06-01: GEOSS Data Sharing Principles
DA-09-01: Data Management
DA-09-02: Data Integration and Analysis
DA-09-03: Global Data Sets
1.3 CAPACITY BUILDING
CB-09-01: Resource Mobilization
CB-09-02: Building Individual Capacity in Earth Observations
CB-09-03: Building Institutional Capacity to Use Earth Observations
CB-09-04: Capacity Building Needs/Gap Assessment
CB-09-05: Infrastructure Development and Technology Transfer
1.4 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ST-09-01: Catalyzing R&D Funding for GEOSS
ST-09-02: Promoting Awareness and Benefits of GEO in the S&T Community
1.5 USER ENGAGEMENT
US-09-01: User Engagement
US-09-02: Socio-Economic Indicators
US-09-03: Cross-cutting Products and Services
42 overarching Tasks including…Part 2: THE 9 GEOSS SBAs
2.1 DISASTERSDI-06-09: Use of Satellites for Risk ManagementDI-09-01: Systematic Monitoring to Support Geohazards RiskDI-09-02: Multi-Risk Management and Regional ApplicationsDI-09-03: Warning Systems for Disasters2.2 HEALTHHE-09-01: Information Systems for HealthHE-09-02: Monitoring and Prediction Systems for Health HE-09-03: End to End Projects for Health2.3 ENERGYEN-07-01: Management of Energy SourcesEN-07-02: Energy Environmental Impact MonitoringEN-07-03: Energy Policy Planning2.4 CLIMATECL-06-01: A Climate Record for Assessing Variability and ChangeCL-09-01: Information for Decision-making & Risk Management CL-09-03: Global Carbon Observation & Analysis System
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42 overarching Tasks including…2.5 WATER
WA-06-02: Droughts, Floods and Water Resource Management
WA-06-07: Capacity Building for Water Resource Management
WA-08-01: Integrated Products for Water Research
2.6 WEATHER
WE-06-03: TIGGE & Global Interactive Forecast System
WE-09-01: Capacity Building for High-Impact Weather Prediction
2.7 ECOSYSTEMS
EC-09-01: Ecosystem Observation and Monitoring Network (EcoNet)
EC-09-02: Ecosystem Vulnerability to Global Change
2.8 AGRICULTURE
AG-06-02: Data Utilization in Fisheries and Aquaculture
AG-07-03: Global Agricultural Monitoring Risk Management
2.9 BIODIVERSITY
BI-07-01: Global Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON)
GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) Operational View
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GCI - capabilities
• The GCI includes three major capabilities:
• Registries of GEOSS components, services, standards,
requirements, and best practices,
• a common search facility, known as the GEOSS
Clearinghouse, that allow searching across all offered and
registered resources,
• a web portal that provides human users a “one stop” access to all GEOSS resources
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• The GEOSS Registries expose standardized registration
and query interfaces and perform a “yellow pages” role in
managing high-level access to GEOSS resources.
• All the registries are used as a place to store and publicize
(register) items that should be visible in GEOSS.
• In essence, if an item is in a Registry, it is a recognized part of GEOSS.
GCI - Registries
• The GEOSS Clearinghouse provides search
across all component and service
descriptions that are in the Component and
Service Registry. A small set of searchable
fields is extracted from the descriptions and
are made available through a standard query interface to support rapid and
consistent search across multiple community
catalogues.
GCI - clearinghouse
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• The GEO Web Portal is the centerpiece for access to,
search, discover and access GEOSS resources.
• The GEO Web Portal is specified as a portal environment
that will 1) provide a single, official ‘front door’ to GEOSSas linked from the GEO Web site, and 2) allow for deployment of additional GEO Community Web portal instances for SBAs and GEO Members and Participating Organizations to customize for more focused areas of application.
GCI – Web portal
GCI Coordination Team
• The 2009 GEO VI Plenary endorsed the GCI architecture recommended by the IOC TF.– single GEO Web Portal (GWP) and a single
Clearinghouse (CH)
• The GCI Coordination Team (GCI-CT) has been created to define the selection process and oversee the long-term operations of GCI.– GCI-CT Kick-off Meeting, Feb 23-24, 2010.
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GWP1 GWP2 GWP3
CSR
CL1 CL2 CL3
USER
GCI configuration
IOC phase 2008-
2009
Current
Configuration
Single CL / multiple
Web Portal GCI
configuration
operational phase
2010-2015
Single CL / single
Web Portal GCI
configuration
operational phase
2010-2015
GWP1 GWP2 GWP3
CSR
CL
USER
GWP
CSR
CL
USER
Endorsed by VI PlenaryGCI-Coordination Team: Selection of a single CL & GWP
The Executive Committee has recognized the US Geological Survey (USGS) as the GEOSS Clearinghouse provider and the European Space Agency/UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (ESA/FAO) as the GEO Web
http://www.geoportal.org/
The selection process has been NOW been completed!
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GEOSS: A Global, Coordinated, Comprehensive and Sustained System of Observing Systems
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-Coordinate and Sustain Observing Systems.improving, integrating and using EO systems. This includes all available in situ and remote sensing platforms for climate change monitoring, early warning, including tsunamis, and risk management.
- Ensure Access for All.More timely dissemination of data in support of full cycle of disaster management at local, national and regional levels
- Develop a Multi-hazard End-to-End Approach.developing models and systems to better analyse and forecast extreme events at the regional level.
- Support the implementation of the HFA
Disasters Strategic Target
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DI-09-01
DI-09-02
DI-09-03
DI-06-09 use of satellite for risk management
systematic monitoring for geohazard assessment
Warning systems for disasters
implementation of a Multi-Risk Management and Regional applications
2009-2011 Work PlanSBA Disasters
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Example of activation: Flooding in the North West of Albania, January 2010. South of Shkoder, Albania. Source:
FORMOSAT-2, LANDSAT-7 Acquired: pre-event 16/06/2002; post-event 13/01/2010. Copyright CNES 2010,
USGS 2002. Image processing, map created 14/01/2010 by ZKI. © DLR.
� Define and facilitate implementation of satellite constellations for risk
management from a multi-hazard perspective.
Task DI-06-09 “use of satellite for risk management”
A globally coordinated approach:the “International Charter. Space and Major Disasters
A unified system of space data acquisition and delivery to those
affected by natural or man-made disasters through Authorized Users.
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Task DI-06-09 “use of satellite for risk management”
In response to GEO request for access for all GEO Members to Charter, the Charter Board unanimously endorsed the principle of « universal access » for all states.
GEO has defined a mechanism for providing Charter access to all GEO Members (45 GEO Members do not have an Authorized User to activate the Charter ). The GEO proposal was discussed at the Charter Board Meeting April 2009.
Extending Charter on Space and Major Disasters Access
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A centralized source of information for disaster management providing integrated and interoperable observations
and derived maps for Vulnerability/Risk assessment, Crisis Management, and Related Forecasts.
Towards a regional approach for risk assessment and mitigation
Task DI-06-09 “use of satellite for risk management”
Country 1
Country 2
Country 3
Country n
Regional Center:-Country Requests Filtering
-Project Management
-Value Adding
Charter
Data
Country
Request
Request
Value AddedProduct
Disaster
1
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3 4 5
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� To develop improved scientific understanding and worldwide scientific
collaboration on geohazards by combining satellite and ground-based geophysical
data collected on high-risk “supersites”.
The Supersites partnership consists of space agencies, which provide satellite radar SAR and other Earth observation data; the providers of ground-based geophysical data, such as seismic and GPS data; and the scientists who use and analyze these data.The Geohazard Supersites initiative provides a cyber-infrastructure platform with a single web entry point that allows fast, easy and free-of-charge access to a complete satellite and ground-based geophysical data set derived from diverse sources and geophysical disciplines.
Task DI-09-01 “systematic monitoring for geohazard assessment”
Geohazard Supersites Initiative
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Task DI-09-01 “systematic monitoring for geohazard assessment”Geohazard Supersites Initiative
In the case of Port-au-
Prince, Haiti,
earthquake the most
reliable data were
ground-deformation
measurements derived
from satellite-based
SAR interferometry,
which provided
information about the
precise mapping of the
earthquake and about
the distribution of the
fault slip.
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� Implement regional and cross-cutting end-to-end projects. Potential areas of
application will include: Flood-risk decision-support tools and applications supporting
the full cycle of disaster management for e.g. Central America and the Caribbean, and
Africa. Build upon GMES projects in the area of emergency response.
Task DI-09-02 “Implementation of a Multi-Risk Management and Regional
applications”
Regional End-to-End Disaster Management Applications
Flood Pilot Project for the Caribbean & Namibia.Operational Flood Prediction and Response Monitoring using medium and high-resolution satellites – Caribbean (2010 and 2011); Southern Africa (2010 and 2011)
September 8, 2008 Port De Paix, Haiti. (US Navy)
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Wildland fires are a globally-widespread phenomenon, affecting both northern and southern biota and ecosystems.Fire activity is reported as increasing in many global regions. Why? - climate change effects on fire regimes;- rural-urban population shifts;- land use change.
Task DI-09-03 “Warning systems for disasters”
Implementation of a Wildland fire warning system at Global level
MODIS Rapid Response System Global Fire Maps Global for August, 2008
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Fire Warning SystemsProvide decision-aids relating to Fire Danger(def’n) an assessment of the factors of the fire
environment that determine ease of ignition, rate of
spread, and difficulty of control and fire impact.
A wide range of potential products: fire risk (potential for fire starts), fire threat (includes values at risk), fire spread models, pre-positioning resource planning, etc.
Task DI-09-03 “Warning systems for disasters”
Implementation of a Wildland fire warning system at Global level
Weather data provides the foundation for building fire danger-based management tools
Potential to develop enhanced products using remotely-sensed data
proposal
• GICHD to become a Participating
Organization in GEO ?
• Disasters SBA/new sub-tasks to serve
CARISMA and SERWIS ?
