COORDINATING EARTH OBSERVATIONS, DATA & APPLICATIONS WITH AFRICA

Espen VoldenGEO Secretariat

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Building a

Coordinated, Comprehensive and Sustained

Global Earth Observation System of Systems

African members• Algeria• Burkina Faso• Cameroon• Central African Republic• Congo, Republic of the• Egypt• Ethiopia• Gabon• Ghana• Guinea-Bissau• Guinea, Republic of• Mali• Mauritius• Morocco• Niger• Nigeria• South Africa• Sudan• Tunisia• Uganda• Cote d’Ivoire

90 Members & 67 Participating Organizations

GEO co-chair: Dr. Philemon Mjwara, DG of South Africa Dep. of Science & Technology

African Participating Organizations• AARSE• ACMAD• EIS-Africa• RCMRD• UNECA

Advancing Data Sharing

Full and Open Exchange of DataData and Products at Minimum Time delay and Minimum Cost:

Free of Charge or Cost of Reproduction

“Value is not in the data themselves but in their use”

GEOSS Information System

15 million+ resources

358 stations in Africa

AfriGEOSSA regional implementation of GEOSS

Next steps

Inventory of existing and planned activitiesImplementation Plan

Launch at AfricaGIS-2013/GSDI-14in Addis Ababa, 4-8 Nov 2013

• Engage with regional Space Agencies and Remote Sensing/Geo-information training centres

• Coordinate Earth Observation satellite infrastructure projects

• Promote data democracy and data sharing• Organise regional workshops & dedicated

sessions at main African conferences

• Establish GEOSS networks in the continent

• Strengthen active African participation in building GEOSS

• Build relationships with similar regional entities (GEOSS Americas, Asia-Pacific GEOSS, …)

• Liaise with ALC, AUC & UNECA for efficient coordination of Member States activities

SMOS

IKONOS

QuickBird

SPIN-2SPOT 4, 5

EROS A1

Envisat

Aura/Aqua/Terra

Grace

QuikScat

Sage

TRMM

Toms-EP

UARSLandsat 7

SORCE

ACRIMSAT

SeaWiFS

ERBS

Orbview 2, 3

Radarsat

DMC

SAC-C

SAC-D/Aquarius

COSMO-SkyMed

GOSAT

Pleiades

TerraSAR-X

SeaWinds

Jason

ALOS

CBERS

Climate Change Detection & Adaptation EC, Japan, USA, ECMWF, GCOS, IGBP, WCRP, WMO

• Major reanalysis projects covering 50 years or more

• 2000-year regional climate reconstruction

• Data portal for seasonal prediction research (YOTC)

• CEOS Essential Climate Variable (ECV) inventory

Global Carbon Observation & Analysis System

Global and regional carbon budgets incl. all sources & sinks

Global Forest Observation InitiativeREDD+ needs, dev. national systems, coord. satellite data acquisitions towards covering all tropical forests

Global Agriculture Monitoring for Food SecurityG20 mandated GEO to dev. crop monitoring of its Agriculture Market Information System (AMIS)

Disaster Risk ManagementExtending from emergency response to entire disaster management cycle

Energy sources and environmental monitoringGEO Coal and Environmental Working Group under establishment

Fostering Use of Earth Observations

by developing applications, products & services

with Communities of Practice