Documents

• Draft report GEO-XV
• List of documents
• Draft agenda
• Draft report of GEO-XIV
• New Members / POs and Observers
• Role of Regional GEOs
• Proposal to create a GEO Associate Category
• GEO Programme Board Report
• Update of the 2017-2019 GEO Work Programme
• Timing of the Mid-term Evaluation
• GEO 2017-2018 Highlights Report
• Work Programme Progress Report
• A Strategy for a Results Oriented GEOSS
• 2017 Financial Statements and Audit Report
• Proposed 2019 GEO Trust Fund Budget
• Update of the GEO Rules of Procedure
• Interim Report on Income and Expenditure as of 31 August 2018

Presentations

Session 1: Opening Session

• Opening remarks from Astronaut Yui
• Welcome remarks (Gilberto Camara - GEO Secretariat Director)

Session 2: Earth observations in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals

• Earth observations (EO) in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Gregg Scott - UN-GGIM Secretariat)
• EO in support of the SDGs (Satoru Ohtake - JST)
• EO in support of the SDGs (Chu Ishida - JAXA / EO4SDGs, Argyro Kavvada - NASA / EO4SDGs)
• EO in support of the SDGs (Sasha Alexander - UNCCD)
• Mexican geospatial data cube (Paloma Merodio - INEGI)
• A Comprehensive Measurement of Progress towards SDGs by China at a county level (Chen Jun - ISPRS)
• SDG & EO: An Experience in Brazil (Izabella Teixeira - IRP-UNEP)
• Session outcomes

Session 3: Earth observations in Support of the Paris Agreement

• EO in support of the Paris Agreement (Florin Vladu - UNFCCC)
• EO in support of the Paris Agreement (Margareta Johansson - Lund University / INTERACT)
• EO in support of the Paris Agreement (Robert Duncan McIntosh - SPREP)
• Terrestrial Observations on the Carbon Cycle: Why do we need to thoroughly observe the land sink? (Nobuko Saigusa - CGER / NIES, Japan)
• Session outcomes

Session 4: Broadening Engagement

• Asia-Oceania GEOSS: Broadening engagement Pilot Study- Mekong River Basin (Xingfa GU - AOGEOSS / CAS)
• EuroGEOSS: Open Innovation Partnerships (Gilles Ollier - European Commission)
• AmeriGEOSS: Implementing GEO in the Americas (Angelica Gutierrez - NOAA)
• AfriGEOSS Initiative: Stakeholder Engagement “Regional Initiatives” (Humbulani Mudau - DST, South Africa)
• Role of Regional GEOs (Imraan Saloojee - South Africa)
• Proposal to create a GEO Associate Category (Stuart Minchin - Australia)
• Proposal to create GEO Associate Category: Breakout Session Results

Session 5: 2017-2019 GEO Work Programme

• Report of the Programme Board (Osamu Ochiai - PB Co-Chair)
• GEO Global Agriculture Monitoring Initiative - GEOGLAM update (Ian Jarvis - GEO Secretariat)
• Key ongoing activities of GEOGLOWS (Angelica Gutierrez - NOAA ; Jim Nelson - BYU)
• GOS4M: Global Observation System for Mercury (Nicola Perrone - CNR, Italy)
• Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN): GEO LDN Initiative (Sasha Alexander - UNCCD)
• Update of the 2017-2019 GEO Work Programme
• Timing of the Mid-Term Evaluation (Craig Larlee - GEO Secretariat)
• 2019 Programme Board Slate

Session 6: New Paradigms for Global Interdisciplinary Science

• Science as a bridge - New Paradigms for Global Interdisciplinary Science (Isabella Teixeira / Michael Obersteiner)
• JAXA’s Earth Observation from Space (Hiroshi Yamakawa - JAXA)
• Digital Earth Africa: Open Data Cube Science for Development (Stuart Minchin - Geoscience Australia)
• CSES Mission and Preliminary Results onboard (Manda Wang - CEA)

Session 7: Earth observations in Support of the Sendai Framework

• EO in support of the Sendai Framework: Opening Address (Toshio Koike - ICHARM)
• EO in support of the Sendai Framework (Renato U. Solidum - DST / PHIVOLCS)
• EO in support of the Sendai Framework (Nate Smith - HOT)
• EO in support of the Sendai Framework (Hui Lin - CUHK)
• Earth Observations in Support of Multi-hazard Disaster Risk Forecasting: The Case of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Joy Jacqueline Pereira - SEADPRI / ASTAAG / IPCC WG 2)
• Session outcomes

Session 8: The Future of GEO

• A strategy for a results-oriented GEOSS (Gilberto Camara - GEO Secretariat Director

Session 9: GEO Business

• GEO XV Budget Working Group Report (Stuart Minchin - Australia / Virginia Burkett - USA)
• 2019 GEO Executive Committee Members
• GEO Week 2019 announcement video
• GEO Rules for ASsociates Subgroup (GRASS)
• GEO-XV Plenary Session Key messages & Outcomes
• GEO Plenary and Ministerial Hosts