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.

1. ISPRS Geospatial Week
Steven Ramage, GEO Secretariat, 18 Sep 2017
@steven_ramage, sramage@geosec.org

6. GEOSS Implementation Requires:
Data Sharing Principles
• Full and Open Exchange of Data -- Open by Default
• Data and Products at Minimum Time Delay
and at Minimum Cost
• Free of Charge or Cost of Reproduction

13. Australia’s Contribution
• DataCube
– Time-series multi-dimensional (space,
time, data type) stack of spatially
aligned pixels ready for analysis
– Analysis Ready Data (ARD) ...
Dependent on processed products to
reduce processing burden on users
– Open source software approach allows
free access, promotes expanded
capabilities, and increases data usage.
• Copernicus Data Regional
Hub

14. AO DataCube
• Landsat and Copernicus
data already deployed
• GF-1 data in testing. (A
technical meeting is
scheduled in late
September in Beijing)
• More datasets from AO
Countries will be tested
and integrated
• Training centers for AO
DataCube are planned
TIME

23. Agenda 2030
EO Case Studies
GEO is instrumental in integrating Earth observation
data into the methodology of measuring,
monitoring and achieving the SDG Indicators.
Brochure gives graphic illustrations of EO data
allowing decision-makers to help identify the status
of conditions they need to report, as well as
visualize solutions.
https://www.earthobservations.org/documents/publications/2017
03_geo_eo_for_2030_agenda.pdf

24. Earth Observations for SDGs
“Population distribution”
and “Cities and Infrastructure
Mapping” are important to
indicators and decision
making related to all goals.

25. Urbanization
• Indicator 11.3.1 Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate (Tier
II, Potential Custodian agency: UN-Habitat, Other: UNEP, UNDP)
11.3 By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbani-zation and
capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human
settlement planning and management in all countries
• The value of satellite-based EO data to monitor land cover
change is acknowledged in the stakeholder comments.

26. Urban Growth -- Las Vegas, Nevada
Population: 358,000 1,560,000
1973 2000

27. 220 October 2014
2014 – first tests on automat. assessment of global built-up areas using Landsat data
GLS1975,GLS1990,GLS2000, and L8 JRC collection 15,30,75-m-res input
Atlas of the Human Planet

28. GEO Human Planet Initiative
• Building on the positive
experience of the GHS WG
New generation of global settlement measurements and products to supporting post-
2015 processes:
• UN Third Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development
(Habitat III, 2016)
• Sustainable Development Goals
• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
Oct 2016 - Side event UN Habitat III, including public release of the Landsat GHS
baseline (epochs 1975-1990-2000-2014); initial set of SDG indicators proposal
database

29. Community Activity: Land Cover and
Change
Goals:
• Informing policy initiatives, including those
from UN Conventions such as the Sustainable
Development Goals, and at the national level
• Operational systems that provide LC products
that meet the varied needs of different users,
including those at the global, regional, national,
and sub-national levels
• Easy access to existing LC and LCC information,
including making it easier for users to find the
data that best meets their needs

31. Climate Change
Responding to the Paris Agreement
Article 4 and Article 13 – National Reporting
• Reported five-yearly by parties, successive reductions in emissions
• Using existing methods and guidance; not validation
Article 5 Mitigation
• Knowledge of evolution of sinks and sources
Article 7 Adaptation
• (7.6) Strengthening cooperation,
• (7.7c) Research, systematic observation
Article 10 Technology Transfer
& Article 11 Capacity Development
Article 14 Global stocktaking
• in the light of equity and the best available science: 2023, 2028…
Article 15 Compliance
GEO PB Action (Aug 2017):
Organise a workshop on the EO
response to the Paris Agreement

36. GEO Observations Blog

37. thinkhazard.org

43. Asia-Oceania region
Complex geographic
Large population (70% of world’s)
Climate change drastically
Natural disasters occur frequently
Unbalanced socioeconomic development
Deteriorating ecological environment
Asia-Oceania GEOSS---a regional cooperation program on Earth observation with broad involvement
Strengthen comprehensive ability of Earth observation and applications for sustainable development at regional level.
Overview

44. Objectives

45. Improving
regional
observing
ability
Data and
information
products
processing
Earth
observatio
n data
sharing
service
Technolog
y
cooperatio
n network
Regional
application
s
p Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Sustainability
p Disaster Resillience
p Energy and Mineral Resources
Management
p Food Security and Sustainalle
Agriculture
p Infrastructure and Transport
Management
p Public Health Surveillance
p Systainable Urban Development
p Water resources Management
AOGEOSS Functional Architecture

46. AOGEOSS Activities
The AOGEOSS tasks can be specified into two categories.
➢the regional applications and services: Boxes with blue background
represent existing AP activities; other boxes represent newly proposed
ones
➢the foundational tasks
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East Asia
South East Asia
South Asia
Central Asia
North Asia
West Asia
Oceania
Demand Driven

47. Governance structure

48. China GEO’s Data Contribution
Policy Mandate
Advance international data sharing and service of satellite remote
sensing in the framework of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
Medium and Long Term Development Plan for China’s Civil Space Infrastructure
Open data to be shared through GEOSS
100T+ EO data from major satellites (HJ,ZY & GF)
Cbers-4 data (5m resolution) collected from July 2015 to now with continuous further
update
Data from the newly lauched TanSat