Session Report of the AOGEO TG 7
Environmental Monitoring and Protection
Qinhuo LIU(AIR-CAS)
Liu Qinhuo
Aerospace Information Research Institute
Chinese Academy of Sciences
September 5, 2024
Tokyo, Japan1

TG -7: Environmental Monitoring and Protection (EMP)
Outline1. Overview of AOGEO TG-7
2. Achievements
3. Ongoing Issues
4. Way forward for post-2025
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Task group 7—Environmental Monitoring andProtection✓ Advocate Analysis-Ready Open Data,by integrating multiple EO data togenerate common products for EMP✓ Promote cooperation for regional
monitoring and assessment ofecosystem status and environmentalquality✓ Provide knowledge-based decision
support for human well-being andenvironmental protection✓ Release Annual Reports for ecosystemand environmental monitoring tosupport the GEO priorities✓ Facilitate capacity building for theIntegrated Priority Studies
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TG7 EMP Contributes to GEO’s Engagement Priorities
SDGs
Sustainable Development Goals 2030: EMP directly addresses
the issues of SDG 3, 6, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 17 to support
evidence-based decision making for environmental protection.

1) SDG3: Good Health and Well-being2) SDG6: Clean Water and Sanitation
3) SDG7: Affordable and Clean Energy4) SDG9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure5) SDG11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
6) SDG13: Climate Action7) SDG14: Life below Water
8) SDG15: Life on land
9) SDG17: Partnership for the Goals……

Climate Change:
The Paris Agreement within UNFCCC: EMP analyzes thevariability of terrestrial ecosystem status, atmospheric andinland water qualities, and evaluate the environmental
impacts and feedbacks to climate changes.

Desertification

Air Pollution

Ecosystem deterioration

Water Pollution

or participant 25 activities, Participants
AOGEO-TG7 Activities Organize
10000+ , The participating countries 20+2024

AOGEO

2023
AOGEO
AOGEO

AOGEO

AOGEO
AOGEO
AOGEOSS2017

AOGEOSS

2016

2021

2020

2019

2018

2022

• 2024.9 TG7 sectorial meeting, 16th AOGEO Symposium, Tokyo, Japan,onsite/online• 2023.6 6th AOGEO workshop, Macao, China, onsite/online• 2022.6 5th AOGEO workshop, Beijing, China, online• 2022.9 TG7 sectorial meeting, 15th AOGEO Symposium, online
2021.2 13th AOGEO Symposium, TG7 sectorial meeting, online
2021.6 GEO virtual symposium, online
2021.7 4th AOGEO workshop, Beijing, China
2021.11 14th AOGEO Symposium, GEO week, GEOARC side event, online

2020.6 GEO virtual symposium, online
2020.10 3rd AOGEO workshop, Changzhou, China

2019.11 12th AOGEO Symposium, Canberra, Australia
2019.11 GEO week, AOGEO-EuroGEO side event, Idea stage, Canberra, Australia• 2018.5 AO GEOSS workshop, Deqing, China• 2018.10 AOGEO symposium, GEO-XV and GEO week, GEOARC side event, Kyoto, Japan2017.10 GEO week, GEOARC side event released Belt & Road,AOGEOSS progress, Washington D.C. USA

2016.4 AOGEOSS initiative work group2016.11 AOGEOSS TG-7 established, St. Petersburg, Russia

TG7 session on Sep. 4• 9 Speakers from China, Australia,Pakistan, Thailand, Bangladesh andCambodia.
• 50+ Participants on site and online together.
•Asia-Oceania Environmental Monitoring Platform(AOEM) with advanced monitoringb and analysistechniques.

•Developed 16 thematic Products and several advanced
algorithms•

16m LULC (Global) produced by Chinese satellites(1,6) with an overall accuracy of 89% based on MuSyQsystem• A wide range of topics were covered, Including
Global LULC Change, AOEM platform, Climate policies in Pakistan, Air Quality monitoring over Malaysia, Use of Geostationary data, Mangrove
Forest Change in Thailand, Cambodia National Forest Monitoring, Environmental monitoring over Bangladesh, and Global environmental changes
in major deserts

TG -7: Environmental Monitoring and Protection (EMP)
Outline1. Overview of AOGEO TG-7
2. Achievements
3. Ongoing Issues
4. Way forward for post-20257

Achievements— Multi-source Synergized Quantitative Remote Sensing
Products (GEOMUSYQ) System
More than 20 types of Chinese and foreign satellite remote sensing data;

More than 20 global quantitative remote sensing products.

⚫ Multi-source data Synergized Quantitative
remote sensing production system (MuSyQ)
independently developed by AIRCAS.

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Achievements—Global LULC
• Developed a global LULC product at 16m resolution using Chinese
satellite data (GF1/6) based on MuSyQ system.

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ARD does help to improve the landcover mapping accuracy
Longer time series of ARD are better for temporal consistency
Yearly landcover can captures the subtle variations for knowledge discovering
Complementary validation requiredSamples and validation for easy confused land covers from end users areencouraged and better to be collected by a public platform.

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Achievements—Essential Environmental Variables products

The first set ofGaofen series
genericproducts wasreleased on
April 24, 2021,
National SpaceDay Quantitative remote sensing products have been applied in many ministries and commissions (naturalresources, national disaster reduction, ecological environment, etc.) and national tasks (three adjustment,
national ecological environment assessment), and supported IPS.
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Achievements—Environmental Monitoring platform• Developed Asia-Oceania Environmental Monitoring platform (AOEM), to promote theinternational sharing and provide convenient information services in Asia-Oceania.

11Achievements—Environmental Monitoring platform• AOEM offers monitoring results including ENSO impact, Forest resources, Urban expansion,
Air quality and Ecosystem quality, release the monitoring reports and products.

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TG -7: Environmental Monitoring and Protection (EMP)
Outline1. Overview of AOGEO TG-7
2. Achievements

3. Ongoing Issues
4. Way forward for post-202513

Application and cooperation
A great deal of ecosystem researches have been done under TG7, such as the air quality in Malaysia, heatwave, climate change and deforestation monitoring in Pakistan, the mangrove mapping in Thailand, floodand city monitoring in Bangladesh, forest change and detection in Cambodia, Global environmental changes
and human activity in major deserts, and so on.
•Multi Sensor Satellite Observation for Particulate Matters
Monitoring in Malaysia•Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Mangrove Forest Change
in the Mekong Region Over Four Decades Based on
Remote Sensing Data-Driven Approach

32,000 avoidable deaths in Malaysia
annually due to air pollution ( Centre for
Research on Energy and Clean Air and Greenpeace
Malaysia, 2023)

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Application and cooperation
Climate change heat wave, and deforestation monitoring in Pakistan

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Validation network

Platform of Algorithm Test of Remote Sensing Products(RESVAT)
Algorithm test and product validation are at the two ends of the common products generatingprocess. Its service platform are of great importance for quality controlling in the generating ofremote sensing common products, which have 45 algorithms test and 25 common products
validation capabilities under a unified environment.

International validation
network needs more
efforts to build.

The in situ data is global-coverage, including
China Validation Network (CVN) data.

TG -7: Environmental Monitoring and Protection (EMP)
Outline1. Overview of AOGEO TG-7
2. Achievements

3. Ongoing Issues
4. Way forward for post-202517

Way forward for post-2025
TG7-1 Land Cover/UseZhong Bo , Yule, Ping Tang,
Thomas Corpetti, Jean-Louis,Roujean…
TG7-2 Ecosystem Environment
Jing LI and Alfredo HUETE,
Xiaoping Xin, Jiaguo Qi…
TG7-3 Inland Water Quality
Qi Zhang, John Melack, Jeffrey
Walker, Biswas…
TG7-4 Atmospheric Quality
Guohong, Li Wang, Martin Rudbeck
Jepsen, Rachhpal Jassal…

Cooperate with TG2 Asia-Pacific
Biodiversity Observation Networkand TG3 GEO Carbon and GHG
Initiative or other task groups

High Quality EEVs
Products and integrated
Analyses based EISupport GEO
engagement priorities:
SDGs, Climate Change,
Disaster Risk Reduction,
Resilient Cities
Global Ecosystems Atlas

Cooperate with other
GEO activities: GEOARC,
GEO4SDG, ……

How contribute to GEA or AOEA?
AOGEO TG 7 have continuously carried out global ecosystems andenvironment monitoring, which will undoubtedly provide robust
methodologies, open datasets, pubic knowledge, useful tools andcollaboration network for the Global Ecosystems Atlas.

The challenge issues for GE Atlas or AOE Atlas include:• user orientation: How to fill the gap between the GEO society and the users• integration and collaboration: different LULC classification systems; the gap between
RS and In situ observation; the inconsistent scales and accuracy of EBV products……
• open knowledge: How to fill the gap among data-information-knowledge• Operationalization: Fund，manpower, platform, mechanism…

Cooperation and collaboration Mechanism
COP-15
GBF23

Integration and validation for atlas and EBVs.

ARD-EBVs
MuSyQ
Utilizing the advantages of multi source highresolution data, develop ecosystems atlas andEEVs

GEOARCGEOBONAOGEO

EMA-AO
Verification
NetworkGEAs

AOGEO-TGs
TG2: APBON\ TG7: EMP)AP BONGBF-Evaluation System

Analyze and evaluate the typical ecosystem service
functions, stress mechanisms for global ecosystems
protection and biodiversity conservation

UNEP
CBD

China BON

UN SDGs
UNFCCC

Wetlands

Users

UNCCDCall for Participation
AOGEO-TG7 welcomes all participants:➢ GEO Members and countries in AO region

Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, Korea, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan,Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, North Korea, South Korea,Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka,Maldives, Afghanistan , Iraq, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain,Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey,Cyprus, Palau, Nauru, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, Samoa, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Solomon
Islands, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Federated States of Micronesia.……
➢ POs and other Societies:
UNEP-IEMP, UNESCO-HIST, WMO, UNESCAP, CEOS, ICSU/Future Earth, ICSU/IRDR, ICIMOD, POGO,ISDE, ISPRS, GRSS, APSCO, UUCCD, FAO, IPCC, AIIB, …..
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Thanks a lot for your attention !

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