geo-opportunities in environment & sustainability (or, the purpose of life)
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A slightly off-beat and provocative talk about great opportunities for geo-professionals in the face of global challenges.TRANSCRIPT
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Thierry GregoriusCoventry, 25 March 2010
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The Earth
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People live on it
You are here
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People need… Energy
Water
Food
Shelter
Air Land
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Global challenges ‘Peak Oil’
Water security Population
growth
Climate changeLand
degradation
Food security
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Yes.
Are we all doomed?
The Sun, 5 billion years from now.
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Everything is relative
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The purpose of life?
Scotland Feb. 2010
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Example: GPS.X-times more productive than classic survey technology.
What do we do?
X-times more work? X-times more leisure?
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Global challenges ‘Peak Oil’
Water security Population
growth
Climate changeLand
degradation
Food security
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So what’s the point?
http://twitpic.com/wwp3d
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“SUSTAIN
ABILITY”
The road to the future… etc… etc…
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Sustainability n. The capacity to endure.
“Sustainability has become a wide-ranging term that can be applied to almost every facet of life on Earth.”
Wikipedia
Is it a B-word ? Buzz ?Bull ?
Bingo ?
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“interdisciplinary”
“natural resources”
“energy”
“climate change”
“socio-economic”
“environment”
“poverty”
“food”
“water”
“transport”
etc…
“development”
“land”
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In other words…?
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Old skills…
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… new jacket?
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� Climate Change
� Water Security
� Food Security
� Population Growth
� Peak Oil
� Land degradation
Re-cap…
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� Climate Change Flood risk modelling
� Water Security Geology, Utility management
� Food Security Land use management
� Population Growth Urban & transport planning
� Peak Oil Exploration survey
� Land degradation Brownfield remediation
e.g.
Geo-skills
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� Climate Change Flood risk modelling Height data
� Water Security Geology, Utility management Real-time data?
� Food Security Land use management Remote sensing
� Population Growth Urban & transport planning 3D city models
� Peak Oil Exploration survey Topo
� Land degradation Brownfield remediation 2D - 4D mapping
e.g. e.g.
Geo-dataGeo-skills
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$ustaina£ility…
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Of all places!
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“We used our experience with oil and gas platforms to
design [the offshore windpark] to withstand North Sea
conditions.”
Egmond-aan-Zee, Netherlands
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Oil exploration survey, Libya 2007
Same skills, new purpose
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The new oil?
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So what’s in our geo-toolbox?
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Sensors…
New:
Consumer
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Data (commercial)
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Data (government)
3,000 free datasets released Jan. 2010
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Data (government-commercial)
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‘Crowdsourcing’ – users create data
www.OpalExploreNature.org
www.OpenStreetMap.org
Exeter, July 2007 Exeter, July 2008
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Basically: A shedload of data…
Data ‘off the Web’
� Instant access
� Free at point of use
� Fast innovation
� One size fits all, unknown quality
� IPR & commercial re-use issues
Commercial & paid-for gov data
� Comprehensive and/or authoritative
� Known or premium quality
� Targeted end user focus (specialised)
� Greater turnaround time
� Greater cost, but incidental to value
blurringboundaries…
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Looking at data in new ways
� Upside-down Google maps � Real-time data: The ‘Sensor Web’
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A glimpse of the future
� New tech: Mobile, 3D, Augmented Reality
• Still early/niche but for how long?
• TED Bing Maps demo: check it out http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html
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3D – many false dawns, but it is comingMobile – crowdsourcing, augmented reality
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What does this bring?
� Greater user participation
� Increased choice & competition
� A growing & more complex world
� More sophisticated user demands
� A free for all culture?
But also:
� More legal test cases & legislation: privacy, copyright
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More user choice
Emerging alternatives to Ordnance Survey large-scale mapping…
UKMapTM by The GeoInformation Group
Also in the professional market
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More user choice
New ways of data collection e.g. crowdsourcing by professionals
Also in the professional market
People’s MapTM by Getmapping et al
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How much data is on the internet?
“500 billion gigabytes”
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Legislation
� Climate Change Act 2008
� Environmental Liability Directive 2009
� Carbon Reduction Efficiency Scheme 2010
� Flood and Water Management Bill 2010
� Etc…
…requiring more data, and more quality data
e.g. uninsurable risks
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• a flood of sensors• a flood of data• a flood of users• a flood of uses• a flood of legislation
• new web & geo-technologies• user participation: people power• more sophisticated user demands
• a more complex world• the global challenges
Summary
• a flood of sensors• a flood of data• a flood of users• a flood of uses• a flood of legislation
• new web & geo-technologies• user participation: people power• more sophisticated user demands
• a more complex world• the global challenges
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a greater need for expertise & dataResul
ting in…
Lots of geo-opportunities
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Lots of fun