GEOSS Access to Data and Climaterelated Information and

GEOSS Access to Data and Climate-related Information and Services José Achache Executive Director © GEO Secretariat

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Ensure Proper Access to Data: Free and Open, Easy to Use and Coordinated © GEO Secretariat

GEO Data Sharing Principles • Full and Open Exchange of Data, recognizing Relevant International Instruments and National Policies • Data and Products at Minimum Time delay and Minimum Cost • Free of Charge or minimal Cost for Research and Education © GEO Secretariat

Led to Free and Open Access to the LANDSAT Archive (USGS - USA) © GEO Secretariat

Registries, Clearinghouse and Portal Users discover and exploit resources contributed to GEOSS Contributors register observation systems, data sets and services © GEO Secretariat

Delivers major societal benefits to USERS, such as policy makers & citizens Appropriate interoperability Enables GEOSS resources to be readily discovered and accessed Trusted (QA) data & information "Open”, in accordance with DSP Represents a COLOSSAL investment by GEO Members & PO in EO systems © GEO Secretariat

GEO Portal: Gateway to Data and Services © GEO Secretariat

GEO Portal: Gateway to Data and Services Searching Real time Precipitation Data © GEO Secretariat

Access to Transverse Data Sets (e. g. , Land Cover) © GEO Secretariat

Tailored to Applications (e. g. , Phenology) Seasonal integrated NDVI © GEO Secretariat Brad Reed, USGS

Seasonal Variations © GEO Secretariat

Including In situ and Historical Data: Cherry Blossom in Kyoto © GEO Secretariat Source A. Menzel

Grape Harvest Dates © GEO Secretariat

Access to Coordinated Data Sets (e. g. , Water Cycle Related) © GEO Secretariat

Including Space Observations © GEO Secretariat

Hydroweb (France) © GEO Secretariat

GRACE Subsurface Water Variations (USA, Germany) © GEO Secretariat

Atmospheric Water Vapor (NASA) © GEO Secretariat

Global Rainfall Maps from Satellites Global Rainfall Map produced 4 hours after observation and updated every hour and accessible on internet as google files © GEO Secretariat

Soil moisture – In-situ Precipitations Soil moisture from ERS scatterometer Precipitation from rain gauges © GEO Secretariat

Ensure Availability and Provide Access to Climate Information and Services (e. g. , Agriculture, Carbon, Forests, Health, Water, Disasters…) © GEO Secretariat

SERVIR: One Stop Shop for Disaster Management (Central America, Africa, Himalayas) © GEO Secretariat

Floods and Droughts Early Warning Systems © GEO Secretariat

Food Security © GEO Secretariat

JECAM: Joint Experiment for Coordinated Agricultural Monitoring (and Yield Forecasting) FASAL - India © GEO Secretariat

Malaria Risk Mapping Risk Maps based on Vegetation Health (VHI), Moisture Conditions (VCI) and Thermal Conditions (TCI). All estimations from AVHRR. © GEO Secretariat

A global carbon monitoring system © GEO Secretariat

Fluxnet: A Global Network of Flux Tower Networks © GEO Secretariat

Ocean Carbon from Research Cruises • Measuring carbon dioxide concentrations, ocean temperatures, and winds • Map shows the paths of research cruises conducted as part of the World Climate Research Programme’s (WCRP) Climate Variability and Predictability project © GEO Secretariat (Map by Robert Simmon, based on data from Dana Greeley, NOAA. ) 30

Current remote sensing missions • TOVS (NOAA) – upper tropospheric CO 2 • AIRS (NASA) – upper trop CO 2, CO and CH 4 • Sciamachy (ESA) CH 4 CO 2 and CO • MOPITT (NASA) – CO • IMG (JAXA) CH 4 • IASI (EUMETSAT) – CO 2 CO, CH 4 © GEO Secretariat

Space Observations: The Future GOSAT (JAXA) Launched on 23 January 2010 OCO-2 (NASA) Launch Feb 2013 © GEO Secretariat

Yearly fluxes 1996 -2006 Monthly fluxes 2006 © GEO Secretariat

Forest Carbon Tracking and the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) Use coordinated Earth Observations (space and in situ measurements linked to forest models) to provide information of suitable consistency, accuracy and continuity to support forest carbon Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MARV) © GEO Secretariat

Forest Carbon Tracking 10 National Demonstrators © GEO Secretariat

Satellite data acquired over Borneo Summer 2009 Scenes acquired June-Sept 2009 © GEO Secretariat 36

In-situ Verification Sites in Borneo 4 VS-Verification Sites Center coordinates BOR-1 WUR_E-Kalim/Sabah N 04. 33 E 117. 01 BOR-2 WUR_SW-Kalimantan S 01. 82 E 111. 61 BOR-3 WUR_SE-Kalimantan S 02. 24 E 114. 41 BOR-4 WUR_C-Kalim/Sarawak N 02. 55 E 115. 08 Radius 20 km U. S. Department of State, Washington DC July 31, 2003 © GEO Secretariat 37

GEO, the Group on Earth Observations An Intergovernmental Organization with 86 Members and 61 Participating Organizations U. S. Department of State, Washington DC July 31, 2003 © GEO Secretariat

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