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This side event will address the need for strengthened cooperation and coordination among global observing systems and research programmes to provide integrated global observations for improving the health and productivity of land resources -- a prerequisite for reducing poverty, ensuring food and water security, providing jobs and real climate action. The crosscutting nature of the GEO LDN Initiative is part of the GEO global effort to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and address the existential threats of income inequality, climate change and the accelerating degradation and loss of natural resources.
The side event aims to raise awareness of the GEO LDN Initiative and its linkages with other GEO activities, especially on opportunities for EO datasets to provide timely, continuous, high resolution data products and actionable geospatial information for national policymakers as well as local stakeholders to better manage and restore their vital natural capital.
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SUMMARY: The GEO Land Degradation Neutrality Initiative (GEO LDN) was created to support countries and other stakeholders in addressing land degradation. It supports capacity, building, standards development, and data analytics, including supporting efforts to measure the condition of land and the three indicators for SDG 15.3.1:
The GEO LDN Initiative will use data (from Earth Observation) to track progress in implementing the UNCCD 2018-30 Strategic Framework, monitoring progress towards LDN and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (particularly SDG indicator 15.3.1).
The Geo LDN Initiative has three working groups:
As noted by Alex, GEO LDN and tools like Trends.Earth help to democratize access to information, by making satellite-based estimates of change in indicators of land degradation available to those who may have limited expertise in remote sensing. Neil noted it is difficult to get data sets connected and GEO LDN is helping countries by facilitating these connections. Countries should feel ownership over the SDGSs, and the LDN Initiative supports countries in integrating their own datasets and methodologies while still allowing for assessment of LDN in a standardized way. A future interest of the GEO LDN Initiative is to support using data and data models to help predict areas where land degradation might occur.
Neil noted countries must be able to use their own approaches and local knowledge to identify if an area is degraded but it is necessary to have a framework for a consistent approach. Neil presented a decision support matrix to help countries interpret the degradation status of areas where remediation activities and the 1OAO framework might lead to counterintuitive degradation outcomes. This will help countries take the best course of action to neutralize land degradation. |
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UNCCD, Conservation International, OECD, GIZ (Germany), CSIRO (Australia), Ghana, FAO, UNEP, Agryhmet, CEOS, ESA, GEO Secretariat
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Sasha Alexander, UNCCD (salexander@unccd.int)
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The purpose of this side event is to highlight the importance of Ecosystem Accounting toward achieving sustainable development and the critical role that earth observation plays in supporting accounts. The session will also explore the contribution of System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) to sustainable development. The session will focus on earth observation as an enabling factor for ecosystem accounting and will showcase examples of ecosystem accounts from both developed and developing nations. The session will highlight the latest developments from the UN SEEA’s revision of the ecosystem accounts and how the earth observation community via EO4EA can better support via a results-oriented GEOSS.
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EO4EA, Australian Government, Mexican Government
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Max Wright (twright@conservation.org)
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Highly vulnerable Small Island Developing States, such as the Pacific Islands (PIs), stand to gain substantially from products and services derived from Earth observation systems. While many of the PIs lack capabilities to fully benefit from available EO products and services, the international EO community is willing and able to support PIs through a variety of mechanisms.
However, coordination between international aid appears ad-hoc, reducing effective support to the Pacific. This situation is exacerbated by small PI governments with broad remit.
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How do I start and develop a public-private partnership? What can I do to make it successful? When should I consider making use of a public-private partnership?
If you’ve asked any of these questions, this interactive session will help you by highlighting and documenting the successful practices of Earth observations and geospatial technology-focused partnerships between public and private organizations. The session will showcase successful partnerships, then will shift to an interactive session to gather working examples from the audience. The lessons and practices gathered will be documented in a handbook for GEO to help broaden engagement and also to support commercial sector engagement.
This side event will also be part of a global study led by Geospatial Media to highlight workable business models for public-private partnerships within different national agencies producing geospatial and Earth observation information and the private sector. The study is being conducted with the intention to promote an integrated data platform that can enable informed decision making to reach SDGs at the national-level.
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United States – NASA India – Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt. Ltd.
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Jamie Favors – Partnerships Coordinator, NASA and Megha Datta – Director: Global Development Agenda, Geospatial Media and Communications (james.e.favors@nasa.gov megha@geospatialmedia.net)
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Panelists (Kate Vinot, Natasha Sadoff, Simon Troman, Thierry Ranchin and Michael Davidson) discussing the importance of maintaining communication around the issues of using EO in renewable energy forecasting.
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In many countries the proportion of energy generation by renewable energy is increasing rapidly, meaning that that the electricity supply is becoming increasingly dependent upon weather and climate. Weather and climate data and forecasts are critical for the effective integration of renewable energy into the electricity grid and to support the transformation of the energy industry.
The session aims to progress the use of Earth observation data and services in support of decision making for safe, reliable, resilient and productive operation of the major electricity operators. The session aims to enhance the links between the energy industry and the three main priorities of GEO (UN SDGs, the Paris Agreement, and the Sendai Framework).
The session will be led by a gender diverse panel of expert speakers. Presentations will cover GEO-VENER, industry requirements for Earth observations, challenges, plans and future opportunities.
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SPEAKERS: Chair: Kate Vinot – Australian Bureau of Meteorology Michael Davidson – Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) Natasha Sadoff – Battelle Thierry Ranchin – MINES ParisTech Simon Troman - Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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SUMMARY: Statement outcome: It is important to continue to raise awareness of the importance of Earth Observation data in regards to reliably forecasting supply from renewable energy fuel sources and demand in urban areas. The same issues around accurately forecasting and accessing data to better plan for the use of renewable energy are being experienced around the world, with different approaches to resolve the issues being explored. Communication between groups needs to continue to solve these issues.
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Australian Bureau of Meteorology, GEO-VENER, MINES ParisTech, Battelle, NASA, AEMO
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Kate Vinot (kate.vinot@bom.gov.au)
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SPEAKERS: Ivan Petiteville, European Space Agency (ESA) Tim Stryker, US Geological Survey (USGS) Max Craglia, European Commission Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC) Geoff Sawyer, European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) Jay Pearlman, Fourbridges Alan Smart, ACIL & Tasmanian Spatial Industries Council |
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The workshop will provide participants with an overall perspective of current work on measuring the value of EO and allow participants to exchange ideas on methods and provide concrete examples for measuring the value of EO data.
A direct link will be made with the recent Value of EO workshop in Frascati and speakers will be invited to make short (2 to 3 minute up to 5 minute depending on overall duration) presentations about the measurement of economic, environmental, regulatory, industry development (and innovation) and scientific advancement.
Ideas will be collected for taking this activity further under the GeoValue umbrella within the GEO work programme.
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USGS, NOAA, Fourbridges, EARSC
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Geoff Sawyer (EARSC) (geoff.sawyer@earsc.org)
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Regional GEO takes great responsibility in coordinating different stakeholders and activities that focus on regional needs and promote GEO Engagement Priorities at regional levels. The Paris Climate Agreement, as one of the GEO Engagement Priorities, focuses on climate change adaptation and mitigation. As regions from Asia and Oceania to Europe show different responses to climate change as well as varied capabilities in Earth Observation, this side event will focus on how cooperation within and among Regional GEO can enhance global observation systems, network stakeholders, promote capacities in order to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards.
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AOGEO; EuroGEO (EC, AIR CAS, GA, JAMSTEC, KARI)
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Gilles Ollier, Xingfa Gu, David Hudson, Ando Kentaro, Yongseung Kim, Marjan van Meerloo, Jean Dusart and Philippe Vialatte (gilles.ollier@ec.europa.eu, guxingfa@radi.ac.cn, andouk@jamstec.go.jp, david.hudson@ga.gov.au, yskim@kari.re.kr, philippe.vialatte@eeas.europa.eu, marjan.van-meerloo@ec.europa.eu, jean.dusart@ec.europa.eu)
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The provision of analysis ready data (ARD) and decision - ready products is a grand challenge for the GEO community. To realise its transformative potential, Earth observation must have faster, broader, deeper and sustained impacts, calling for operational, decision ready products and ready-to-use data. Digital Earth Africa Program, which will provide a routine, reliable and operational service enabling African countries to track changes across the continent, will rely on ARD to ensure efficient time-series analyses and data interoperability. DE Africa products will help to address many of the challenges facing the African continent and other parts of the world. This Event will showcase major advances in the production and provision of ARD and the associated benefits, recently recognised in Nature . Participants from industry, research, government and the user community will discuss progress and emerging challenges and will focus on the role of the international community to address those challenges; - A Call to Action for the GEO community.
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The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Geoscience Australia; Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA); Planet Labs; UK Space Agency; National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA - CEOS System Engineering Office); Amazon (Australian Team); Australian National University; PCI Geomatica; Catapult
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Andreia Siqueira (andreia.siqueira@ga.gov.au)
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How well communities prepare for and recover from disasters can have extensive impacts on lives and local economies. Earth observations and remote sensing provide innovative approaches for visualizing and managing systemic disaster risk and can directly enhance decision making from national to local levels. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction identifies explicitly the need for Earth observation data, and the role it can play in building productive and resilient communities. This side event will showcase opportunities for reporting towards Sendai global targets, and share GEO programmes and initiatives efforts to ensure a thriving society driven by Earth observations.
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NASA, International Research Institute for Climate and Society – Columbia University, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, International Displacement Monitoring Centre, International Organization for Migration, United States Geological Survey (USGS), GEO Sendai Secretariat, National Sendai Focal Points, and UNOOSA.
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Shanna N. McClain, PhD (NASA) and Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Colombia University (shanna.n.mcclain@nasa.gov, andrewk@iri.columbia.edu)
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Illegal mining is a serious environmental issue in Ghana. With the release of the Africa Regional Data Cube (ARDC), users in Ghana are taking advantage of interoperable Landsat (optical) and Sentinel-1 (radar) data to detect new water bodies and new devegetation as the result of mining activity. New algorithms will allow the identification of mining sites at high temporal frequency to target government investigation and to monitor the extent of vegetation loss and post-mining recovery.
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NASA, CEOS Systems Engineering Office
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Brian Killough (brian.d.killough@nasa.gov)
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Each year, a vast expanse of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica (and ranging seasonally from ~3 to 19 million km2 ) is transformed by sea ice. Not only stunningly beautiful, this ice cover substantially affects ocean-atmosphere interaction, regional weather, global climate, marine ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, shipping, and ice-sheet processes. It follows that sea-ice change/variability has wide-ranging ramifications. This talk provides a brief overview of the challenges in determining how, where and why Antarctic sea ice is changing and/or varying, and the crucially-important role of satellite and other remote sensing combined with in-situ observations. The talk also introduces Australia’s new icebreaker Nuyina.
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Australian Antarctic Division, Tasmania
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Dr Rob Massom (rob.massom@aad.gov.au, r.massom@utas.edu.au)
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This project focuses on explaining the question: how can EO be effectively used as an observation-based policy tool for monitoring food security and production in a world increasingly affected by climate change? This research is based on the analysis of three countries – Kenya, Mexico, and China - that have varying degrees of federal interaction with EO. Understanding how EO can aid food production policy is central for national governments in preparing for the harmful effects of climate change.
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The Graduate Institute / GEO
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Léore Pujol (leore.pujol@graduateinstitute.ch)
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Identifying the state and condition of environmental landscapes through continuous monitoring is paramount to a sustainable approach for managing our natural resources. Land cover of Australia aims to routinely generate land cover and change classification maps based on the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) utilising Digital Earth Australia (DEA). This novel approach is underpinned by routine retrieval of environmental variables from earth observation, a significant challenge that must be addressed to ensure reliable, standardised, continental-scale mapping of land cover for Australia and other nations utilising the Open Data Cube (ODC) framework.
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Aberystwyth University ; Geoscience Australia ; Symonston ; ACT ; Plymouth Marine Laboratories ; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences ; University of New South Wales
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Authors: Christopher Owers, Norman Mueller, Richard Lucas, Pete Bunting, Daniel Clewley, Belle Tissott, Sean Chua, Graciela Metternicht (cho18@aber.ac.uk)
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Presentation on facilitating end user access to satellite imagery through accessible TerriaJS web-based applications. This technology enables custodians of satellite imagery to set up their environments and services, with open source libraries and tools. The session will include a demonstration of the Digital Earth Australia data services in 4 terria based applications: NationalMap, DE Africa, DE Australia, TerriaCube.
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CSIRO Data61 - Terria team
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Ana Belgun (ana.belgun@data61.csiro.au)
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Through the efforts of GEO’s Members and Participating Organisations, availability of EO data has increased, and there are now examples of how EO can be put to work across almost every domain. However, the delivery of GEO’s vision will depend on “downscaling” of this work to national, sub-national and community levels.
This event will provide a forum to discuss the key policy and governance challenges that currently hold back this “downscaling” and inhibit full adoption of EO-enabled products and services into national and local decision making and program delivery.
The panel session will provide participants with an opportunity to learn from a diverse range of countries and organizations on the:
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Mexico, Switzerland, United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, CEOS, Digital Earth Africa, Global Forest Observations Initiative, Catapult Satellite Applications, ESIP, ARDC and CODATA
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Jimena Juarez, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), Mexico (jimena.juarez@inegi.org.mx)
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This session illustrates how EO experts are working with national and international actors across regions to deepen the relevance of EO in support of global policy across water, land use, food security, and sustainable urbanization. The event showcases advances in EO to help countries address relevant SDG, with emphasis on interlinkages and tradeoffs. It also explores how the EV framework can provide a relevant approach for closing current gaps in relation to the Global Indicator Framework.
GEO Members and the commercial sector will share examples of using EO to transform their economies; complement traditional statistical methods; and innovate with EO solutions.
This event focuses on promoting the value of EO toward achieving progress in sustainable development. This includes showcasing how countries can and currently use EO in their SDG monitoring and reporting, as well as in facilitating EO inclusion in national frameworks to increase social, environmental, and economic benefits.
The session will be divided in three parts and will aim to: a. present success stories from countries integrating EO data with SDG, and GEO’s role in supporting countries in their use of EO to inform decision making, b. explore how mainstreaming workflows from data sources to SDG Indicators with essential variables can assist in closing current gaps in relation to the SDG Global Indicator Framework; and c. discuss how public-private partnerships can expand our impact in supporting vulnerable countries.
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GEO EO4SDG, the University of Geneva, and CREAF will lead this side event, with the support of the CEOS SDG Ad Hoc Team, and in collaboration with other GEO initiatives including: GEOGLAM, GEO LDN Initiative, GEO Blue Planet, GEO AquaWatch, and GEO Human Planet.
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Dr. Argyro Kavvada, GEO EO4SDG Initiative (NASA) and Ms. Ivette Serral, CREAF (argyro.kavvada@nasa.gov, ivette@creaf.uab.cat)
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The session will explore how the GEOGLAM community uses Earth observations to support a more food secure world from national to global scales. It will be an interactive session for the policy community to enhance understanding and broaden involvement.
A food secure world is essential for human health and prosperity. Informed policies and decisions are a cornerstone to a sustainable and resilient food system. This requires timely, consistent and accurate information on agricultural production, rangeland condition and land use state and change.
We will hear how the public and private sectors in all regions benefit from GEOGLAM’s timely, accurate, authoritative information for decision makers. Then we will look at how Earth observations support early warning by focusing on some of the co-development activities in Africa. Then through a panel discussion we will try to glean some insights into best practices and how these efforts can be scaled up to help additional nations.
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GEOGLAM will lead the session. Specific countries, multi-national initiatives and private sector participants are TBD, but may include: Uganda OPM, Kenya, Australia CSIRO-RAPP, International Livestock Research institute-ILRI (Rangeland Insurance), and NASA Harvest.
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Ian Jarvis, GEOGLAM (ijarvis@geosec.org)
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How to achieve sustainable water management to support human and ecosystem health in the face of climate change, population growth, rural-urban migration, and ecosystem degradation?
This session showcases GEO organizations involved in water-related areas - from the catchment to the sea and addresses topical water issues such as harmful algal blooms, water-borne illness, flooding, habitat loss and the roles of green and gray infrastructure. The session will focus on the GEO policy mandates of The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (particularly SDGs 6, 11, 14, and 15), the Paris Climate Agreement, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
This side event will showcase water-related information available through Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and GEOSS in a synchronized effort. It will be an opportunity for networking, collaboration; allow end users to gather available information for water resources planning and management; and make crucial contacts to formulate approaches to their water challenges including degraded water quality (eutrophication, sedimentation), flooding, water-borne illness, and their economic relevance. Discussions will also include innovative strategies on rural and agricultural ecosystems (“green infrastructure”) as opposed to gray infrastructure (dams, treatment plants, distribution systems) as potential solutions to achieve water-related development goals (& other sustainability objectives).
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Conservation International, GEO AquaWatch, GEO Blue Planet, GEOGLOWS, GEOWetlands, EO4HEALTH, GEOBON-MBON, GEOBON-Freshwater BON, GEOHAB, GEOMangroves, GEOECO, EO4SDGs, GEO Citizen Science, CUNY.
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Dr. Merrie Beth Neely, GEO AquaWatch; Dr. Emily Smail, GEO Blue Planet Initiative; Prof. Dr. Arnold Dekker, Dr. Pamela Collins, Conservation International (mbneely@geoaquawatch.org, emily.smail@noaa.gov, arnoldgdekker@gmail.com, pcollins@conservation.org)
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Traditional indigenous groups represent 370 million people globally and indigenous territories cover almost 30% of Earth’s terrestrial surface and overlap with 80 percent of the planet’s biodiversity. Indigenous peoples are often the most effective sustainable land managers, yet indigenous communities often lack access to resources and technologies that can help secure their land rights and monitor threats to their territories from outside interests. In this session, indigenous peoples’ representatives from 5 continents will discuss how they leverage Earth Observation data and tools to promote their rights and sustainably manage their lands. We anticipate the GEO community will benefit from the insight and knowledge of First Nations /Indigenous Peoples and gain valuable perspective on how we might collectively achieve our sustainable development goals.
Indigenous peoples are key stakeholders in achieving global sustainability and, therefore, should equally benefit from using geospatial data and tools to inform land management decisions. While GEO’s principles state that all individuals from public authorities to citizens should have equal rights to information that concern environmental decisions, to date, the larger earth observation community has recognized that coordinated strategies and further work is needed to further democratize geospatial data with indigenous communities. This event is intended to open a dialogue with the GEO community and discuss options for a larger EO4IM community to help achieve enhanced technical capacities of Indigenous Peoples via the GEO umbrella.
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Government of Australia, Conservation International, NASA Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA), GEO EO Citizen Science Community Activity
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Karyn Tabor, Conservation International; and Nancy Searby, NASA (ktabor@conservation.org, nancy.d.searby@nasa.gov)
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Emerging technologies and data sources provide opportunities for national official statistics organisations to improve and produce new official statistics. Earth Observations data present opportunities for official statistics including agricultural conditions and output, land use monitoring, urban development and environmental sustainability.
This side event will showcase innovative work from the international official statistics community utilising Earth Observations data.
This side event will also discuss developments of interest to the Earth Observation community in statistical-geospatial standards, frameworks and approaches to improve the management, sharing, and integration of geospatial and other information (such as the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
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Jenny Pocknee, Assistant Director, Machine Intelligence & Novel Data Sources, Methodology Division (ABS) (jenny.pocknee@abs.gov.au)
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Co-design methods are regularly described as a means to design services based on EO-data – still, co-design methods are varied and were not necessary developed (and hence are not necessary adapted) to fit with EO-data context, that is characterized by high level expertise and very complex organizational situations.
In this session we show why co-design methods have to be adapted to meet EO-specific situations, we explain how to develop new co-design methods (based on the most advanced design theory), and we illustrate these new methods on the E-Shape co-design experiments.
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Mines-ParisTceh
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Raphaëlle Barbier ; Pascal Le Masson ; Lionel Menard ; Philippe Blanc ; Thierry Ranchin (raphaelle.barbier@mines-paristech.fr ; pascal.le_masson@mines-paristech.fr ; lionel.menard@mines-paristech.fr ; philippe.blanc@mines-paristech.fr ; thierry.ranchin@mines-paristech.fr)
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Combining demographic sources, satellite and aerial imagery and other cartographic sources, Africapolis is designed to enable comparative and long-term analyses of urban dynamics in Africa – covering 7 600 urban areas in 50 countries. Africa is projected to have the fastest urban growth in the world – by 2050, its cities will be home to an additional 950 million people – placing urban planning and management at the core of development, environmental and economic challenges. The session will show how Africapolis data improves our understanding of Africa’s urban transition and dispels common misconceptions of this complex and diverse process.
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OECD Sahel and West Africa Club
Contact
Philipp Heinrigs (philipp.heinrigs@oecd.org)
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Aimed at interested scientists, managers and policy makers who want a full range of tools, data and systems necessary for investigating, modelling, forecasting and predicting the complexities of our future environment. NEPS aims to become a robust, quality-controlled national resource open for use to all sectors of Australia with results accepted by society - like weather forecasts. Catch up on progress being made in the Scoping Study’s consultations. Learn how to get involved. Help the Expert Panel formulate inspired options for the system design, governance structure and business model to be submitted to the Australian Government in 2020.
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TERN
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Mark Grant (TERN Science Communication and Engagement Manager) (m.grant3@uq.edu.au)
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It has been difficult to estimate the real population movement within the country especially from rural to urban using census data. However this movement effect much the urban planning programs for hosting places.
The research on exploring internal migration trends in Rwanda using mobile cell detail records to provide estimates on current population movements. The research intend to provide good estimates on small geographic areas vis a vis to the urbanisation projects wich aimed to build more than 415,000 new houses by 2032 in Kigali city and also contribute to the broader literature of population movement in developing countries.
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Patrick Nshimiyimana (nsipal5@gmail.com)
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The contribution will summarize applications in multi scale hyperspectral data analysis for mineral resource exploration and soil characterization.
Applications e.g. on mineral and lithology mapping, mineralization vectoring, derivation of soil parameters, and further engineering measures will be shown.
Multi scale hyperspectral data analysis characterizes the composition of rocks, drill cores and, geological formations. This way terrestrial exploration can be supported and optimized in a way that mineral and raw materials are detected, extracted and processed efficiently with a low environmental impact.
Furthermore, large areas of arable land can be classified. Thus, optimized selection of crops and fertilizers is possible.
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Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources of Germany
Contact
Martin Schodlok (martin.schodlok@bgr.de)
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For the implementation of the consistent German Ground Motion Service based on space borne radar interferometry huge challenges had to be overcome. Some of them are the consistency with terrestrial GNSS stations and the large area covered (356.000 km²).
The presentation summarizes the concept and the implementation of the German Ground Motion Service. It will highlight specific peculiarities of the dissemination process and shed a light on the chances and limits of PSI-techniques.
Applications e.g. on groundwater management, energy storage, mining facilities and further engineering measures will be shown. The European Ground Motion Service will be addressed.
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Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources of Germany
Contact
Thomas Lege (thomas.lege@bgr.de)
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The GEO Global Water Sustainability Initiative (GEOGLOWS) is working to provide relevant, actionable information about water that promotes the use of earth observations while strengthening observational networks in local operational frameworks. We invite you to come learn how your organization can take advantage of the data services that provide essential water variables, both historical and forecasted from earth observations on every river and watershed in the world. Information that is easily visualized, accessed, and customized through application programming interfaces (APIs) and simple web map applications.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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Angelica Gutierrez ; Jim Nelson (angelica.gutierrez@noaa.gov ; jimn@byu.edu)
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Contribution to the Capacity Development interventions of the GEO Flagships, Initiatives and Regional GEO’s: enhancing the skills and competencies of the GEO community (end-users) in collecting, applying and sharing large volumes of (geo)data by dedicated research, (post)graduate education and organizational strengthening.
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Ir. A. Veldkamp (Dean of ITC)
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ITC- Twente University /GEO Secretariat
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Joost Teuben (jteuben@geosec.org)
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The coastal line of the Mediterranean Sea is rich with diverse ecosystems and flora species, which is estimated at over 25,000 species. Unfortunately, there is a growing need to maximize the value and benefit of these ecosystems for social and economic development. This could be through by accurate mapping and efficient quantification of these ecosystems as well as assessing the vulnerability status of these ecosystems. There are various transboundary issues facing most countries of the Mediterranean Sea basin.
Challenge or Opportunity the event will present: The Key for success in addressing transboundary problems is the joint political commitment of all countries in the basin. This requires building synergies between the national stakeholders in the Mediterranean basin countries to develop strategic action plan for preserving the environment.
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Center for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE)
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Omar Elbadawy (elbadawy@cedare.int)
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Ground stations at the core of global satellite networks, are facilities that provide communications between the ground and satellites using antennas to receive data and control systems to command satellites. Today, you must either build your own ground stations, or obtain long-term leases with providers, often in multiple countries to provide enough opportunities to contact the satellites as they orbit. Once this data is downloaded, you need servers, storage, and networking in close proximity to the antennas to process, store, and transport the data. AWS Ground Station eliminates these problems by delivering a global Ground Station as a Service.
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Amazon
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John Hildebrandt (johnhild@amazon.com)
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Geospatial shares the opportunities and the challenges of both high performance computing and big data. With applications from visualising IoT data through to ingesting drone footage, it brings with it increasingly large data sizes, complicated data pipelines, HPC-level transformation demands, and often massive traffic from public users. From Smart Cities through to location-based marketing, rapid analysis of large volumes of geospatial data is becoming increasingly important. In this session you will hear how AWS customers build powerful, flexible, secure, and future-proof geospatial platforms. These systems deliver more business value from location-based data while minimising both compute costs and management overhead.
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Amazon
Contact
John Hildebrandt (johnhild@amazon.com)
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Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is a brains-trust for the Earth science data and informatics community. For over 20 years ESIP has coordinated the co-development of conventions, practices, and guidelines as well as peer-led education and training, to make Earth science data more FAIR. ESIP node initiatives are now appearing: for example, the Earth and Environment Science Information Partners (E2SIP) coordinates users and providers of earth science data in the Australian research and statutory sectors. Globally connected networks of Earth, Space and Environmental Science data practitioners such as that organized through ESIP, E2SIP, and other international partners make earth science data matter.
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Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Contact
Erin Robinson (erinrobinson@esipfed.org)
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Being the tallest peak of the world, height of Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) is a matter of global interest. There were concerns from different corners regarding its height after the Gorkha earthquake 2015. Several organizations have made efforts to measures its height earlier with different methods and with different results. It has been important for the Nepal government to re-establish a scientifically determined height using the latest available technologies.
This is for the first time a team of Geo-Surveyors reached on the top of the world with technical equipment and devices to measure its height. All data processing and precise geoid computation is ongoing, waiting for final result. Looking forward for the scientifically measured, commonly accepted and authentic height of the 3rd pole.
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Mr. Khim Lal Gautam (Chief Survey Officer Mount Everest)
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Earth Observation data acquired by radar satellites enables the mapping of ground deformation over large areas. With the advent of ESA’s Sentinel-1 mission, satellite radar data is acquired routinely and open access for the entire Australian continent. This new operational radar dataset presents the opportunity to develop a national scale ground deformation reconnaissance tool, that can be used to mitigate risk related to natural and anthropogenic hazards. This presentation will discuss how satellite radar data can be used to detect and monitor ground deformation related to natural and anthropogenic phenomena, and the value of a consistently processed national-scale ground deformation database. We will showcase examples where satellite radar data have been used to detect ground deformation in Australia, including:
Organizers
Geoscience Australia
Contact
Thomas Fuhrmann, Matthew Garthwaite, Nicholas Brown (thomas.fuhrmann@ga.gov.au)
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The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) collected and managing the data of 1.3 Billion people approx. in a country like India. For last over a decade the data has been shared and utilized multipurpose by both private and government.
There are many issues related to privacy and rights of citizens as the bigdata base contains biometric data such as Iris and Finger Print. Of late the data has been misused for various purposes.
I can contribute related to Analysis of Surveillance. How is surveillance affecting civil society? I can propose a session on digital surveillance on civil society and citizens as an example of India.
Mass digital based surveillance on citizens and civil society in the name of unique identification in India has become a dangerous precedence in democratic setting. Collecting bio-metric and iris data from citizens and storing and disclosing is a big privacy issue.
Organizers
PROGRESPECT
Contact
Dr. Sriram Kannekanti (sriram@progrespect.org)
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Using satellite remote sensing data, historical city maps, population and economy data, we have developed data sets on urban expansion and urban land use/coverage change for multiple periods from 1949 to 2018. Here we characterized the change of urban build-up area over past 70 years and simulated the urban expansion in different scenarios in the next 30 years. Furthermore, the uneven distribution of urban space in China was revealed and problems in urban greening and ecological construction were identified. Ultimately, we proposed paradigm for the future realization of the “Beautiful China” city livability and strategies for sustainable development goals.
Organizers
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Contact
Wenhui Kuang (kuangwh@igsnrr.ac.cn)
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Following the launch of the Global Ecosystem and Environment Observation and Analysis Annual Reports by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China in 2012, GEOARC has been accepted as a Community Activity in the GEO Work Programme from 2018. Firstly, this session will give a brief introduction to the GEOARC. Then, the significant progresses will be summarized for the series of reports released from 2012 to 2018. Thirdly, we will present the research results of this year, including 4 topics: the global forestry monitoring, global desertification monitoring, the supply situation of grain and oil crops, and the global disaster monitoring. Expectation for the future, GEOARC will focus on the global or regional ecological environmental monitoring, to provide information and knowledge services to support the three GEO priorities: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Paris Agreement, and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. We will promote the international cooperation to improve the product validation, data sharing, information communication and policy decision-making support.
Contact
Zhang Songmei ; Liu Qinhuo ; Wu Junjun (songmei.zhang@nrscc.gov.cn ; liuqh@radi.ac.cn ; wujj@radi.ac.cn)
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Abstract
e-shape is a multi-national initiative bringing together decades of public investment in Earth Observation and in cloud capabilities into services for decision-makers, citizens, industry and researchers. It allows Europe to position itself as global force in EO through leveraging Copernicus, making use of existing capacities and improving user uptake of the data from GEO assets.
The showcase on Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture contributes to SDG 2. It consists of four pilots, leveraging existing technologies (developed in previous research work like the GEO-CRADLE project) demonstrating that Copernicus data sets combined with the necessary in-situ data (collected based on existing networks and through citizen sourced streams), weather and soil data can deliver improved information at global, national and local scale, exploiting the processing infrastructures offered by Copernicus DIAS.
Organizers
VITO and i-BEC
Contact
Sven Gilliams (VITO), Nikolaos Tsakiridis (iBEC), Nikolaos Tziolas (iBEC) (sven.gilliams@vito.be, tsakirin@auth.gr, n_tziolas@hotmail.com)
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This study explores the use of Sentinel 1 and 2 images in mapping of burnt scars occurring after a high severity wild forest fire. We utilized the backscatter intensity, GLCM texture and polarimetric H-alpha decomposition of S1 data as well as the atmospherically corrected S2 reflectance values and the difference normalized burnt ratio (dNBR). We used supervised contextual Support Vector Machine - Markov Random Field classifier (SVM-MRF) to integrate the spectral and spatial context information. The main study areas: 3 recent bushfires in Victoria, Australia, and 2 recent forest fires in Spain. A strong relation of spectral, textural and polarimetric data and burnt/unburnt classes.
Contact
Stella Mutai (stellachela1@gmail.com)
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Atmospheric vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is a critical variable in determining plant photosynthesis. Synthesis of four global climate datasets reveals a sharp increase of VPD after late 1990s. In response, the vegetation greening trend indicated by a satellite-derived vegetation index (GIMMS3g), which was evident before the late 1990s, subsequently stalled or reversed. Terrestrial gross primary production derived from two satellite-based models (revised EC-LUE and MODIS) exhibits persistent and widespread decreases after the late 1990s due to increased VPD, which offset the positive CO2 fertilization effect. Six Earth System Models have consistently projected continuous increases of VPD throughout the current century. Our results highlight that the impacts of VPD on vegetation growth should be adequately considered in order to assess ecosystem responses to future climate conditions.
Organizers
Sun Yat-sen University
Contact
Prof. Wenping Yuan (yuanwp3@mail.sysu.edu.cn)
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GEOMUSYQ is to develop the technology and standards to support the Multi-source Synergized Remote Sensing Data Processing, Common Product Generation, Global Product Evaluation and Validation, especially to promote the Chinese Satellite data sharing and application. At first, this session will give an introduction of MUSYQ system. Secondly, several new concepts, such as common RS product, multi-source RS data normalization, synergized quantitative RS inversion will be proposed and explained. Then, the newest research advances will be presented, which include the multi-source RS data normalization, quantitative RS production, data publication and sharing. More than 10 kinds of global biophysical or hydrological parameter products from 2010-2015 will be presented and analyzed, which are retrieved by synergizing multi-sensor datasets include MODIS-Terra/Aqua, MERSI-FY3, and VIRR- FY3.
Organizers
RADI China
Contact
Qinhuo Liu ; Li Li (liuqh@radi.ac.cn ; lili3982@radi.ac.cn)
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Monitoring biodiversity is essential for the conservation and management of forest resources. We use a method called “spectranomics” in combination with airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR data to detect the relationship among the spectral, biochemical and taxonomic diversity of tree species, and then map the species richness and Shannon–Wiener index in one forest nature reserve of China. The results show that forest species diversity can be directly predicted using clustering method based on crown-by-crown variations in biochemical and structural properties without the need to distinguish the individual tree species.
Organizers
RADI China
Contact
Yuan Zeng (zengyuan@radi.ac.cn)
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Abstract
After launching 3 years, the TanSat science team will provide the first version of official Level 2 products, which derived by IAPCAS retrieval algorithm. The products are consist of 3 kinds of products: Column mixing ratio of carbon dioxide (XCO2), Solar-Induced Chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) and Cloud detection products. The XCO2 has been validated with TCCON data with 1.5 ppm precision, which can be applied in the CO2 flux inversion research. These achievements demonstrate TanSat mission has achieved its scientific objective under the strong support of Chinese government.
Organizers
GEO China Secretariat
Contact
Yi Liu (liuyi@mail.iap.ac.cn)
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1.1 Welcome from Australia
1.2 Opening Remarks
Vice Minister Huang Wei
Pengde Li
Patrick Child
Mmboneni Muofhe
Neil Jacobs
Gilberto Camara
1.3 Welcoming of new Members, Participating Organizations and Associates
1.4 Approval of Agenda
1.5 Approval of Draft Report of GEO-XV
1.6 Opening Keynote Presentation
Sameh Wahba, Global Director, Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice, World Bank
1.7 Introduction of the Canberra Ministerial Declaration
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2.1 Session Objectives: Principals provide guidance on the actions that GEO needs to take to accelerate efforts that support climate action, including relevant objectives under the Paris Agreement.
Session Facilitator
Patrick Child, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission
External Speaker
Nga Puna, Director, Tu’anga Taporoporo, National Environment Service, Cook Islands
Delegations
Member or PO
David Oehmen, Programme Officer for Digital Strategy and Innovation, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
2.2 Session outcomes and recommendations
Documents:
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3.1 Session Objectives: Principals provide guidance on the actions that GEO needs to take to accelerate its efforts to support implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Session Facilitator
Yoshiyuki Chihara, GEO Principal of Japan
External Speaker
Lisa Robinson, BBC Media Action
Delegations
Member or PO
Tiziana Bonapace, Director Information and Communications Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division, UNESCAP
3.2 Session outcomes and recommendations
Documents:
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4.1 Session Objectives: Principals provide guidance on the actions that GEO needs to take to accelerate its efforts to support implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Session Facilitator
Sasha Alexander, Policy Officer, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
External Speaker
Claire Melamed, CEO, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD)
Delegations
Member or PO
Fan Chen, Deputy Director, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, (RADI)
4.2 Session outcomes and recommendations
Documents:
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5.0 Review of Day One
5.1 Introduction to Session
Session Objective: Plenary determines how GEO will accelerate its impact through enhancement of key relationships and implementation of targeted strategies.
5.2 Economic Impact
Topic Objective: Agree on how GEO should approach formalizing and structuring its engagement with key multilateral economic cooperation fora (G20, G7/8, ASEAN, APEC, etc).
Nicholas Davis, Director, SWIFT Partners, World Economic Forum
5.3 Regional Impact
Topic Objective: Agree on actions GEO should take to better exploit the downscaling role of Regional GEOs, and their ability to connect GEO to additional countries and communities.
Phoebe Odour – Afri GEO
Angelica Gutierrez - Ameri GEO
Xingfa Gu - AO GEO
Gilles Ollier - Euro GEO
5.4 Local Impact
Topic Objective: Agree on actions GEO should take to better enable delivery of impact at a local scale, in particular actions that draw on expert advice and feedback from the development experts and commercial sector actors most skilled at deploying solutions at this scale.
Valrie Grant, Managing Director, GeoTechVision (Jamaica)
5.5 Engaging and Enabling Communities
Topic Objective: Agree on actions GEO should take to better leverage the power of key ‘enabling communities’, those communities who can bridge the EO community with end-user communities who typically need products and services of which EO data is only one part.
Rolando Ocampo, Director, ECLAC Statistics Division, ECLAC
Documents:
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6.1 Introduction of proposed strategy to implement Results-Oriented GEOSS
Session Objective: Plenary determines the scale and nature of GEO’s future efforts to implement a Results-Oriented Global Earth Observation System of Systems.
6.2 Interventions from Delegations
6.3 Next Steps
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7.1 The role of the commercial sector in the delivery of GEO’s vision
7.2 The Impact of the first GEO Work Programme
7.3 Presentation of the 2020-2022 Work Programme
7.4 Interventions from Delegations
7.5 Formal Endorsement of the 2020-2022 Work Programme
Documents:
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8.1 Report of the Secretariat Director
8.2 Review of the Ministerial Summit Agenda
8.3 2018 Financial Statements and Audit Report
8.4 Proposed 2020 GEO Trust Fund Budget, including Pledges and Approval
8.5 Update of the GEO Rules of Procedure
8.6 Announcement of 2020 Lead Co-Chair and Slate of 2020 Executive Committee Members
8.7 Slate of the 2020 Programme Board
8.8 GEO-XVII Announcements
8.9 Any Other Business
8.10 Summary of Plenary Outcomes
8.11 Closing Remarks
Agenda
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