China’s Engagement in GEO &GEOSS
Dr. Li Jiahong, GEO China Secretariat

China’s Engagement in GEO & GEOSS

1. Strategic Plans & Implementations
1.1 China proposed “the Silk Road Economic Belt and thetwenty-first Century Maritime Silk Road Cooperation
Initiative” in 2013.
• Chinese government has endorsed and released “The Belt andRoad Strategic Plan”, as the action plan following “the Belt andRoad Initiative” last April.
• This Plan emphasizes the ecological environment, biodiversity andclimate change cooperation in this region.
• It is necessary to promote the construction of sustainable
development of the Belt and Road jointly with the Earthobservation.

1. Strategic Plans & Implementations
1.1 China proposed “the Silk Road Economic Belt and thetwenty-first Century Maritime Silk Road Cooperation
Initiative” in 2013.
• Chinese government also endorsed “The Belt and Road”
Spatial Information Corridor Construction and Application
Plan in the Earth Observation field.
• This Plan strengthens the developments of the Earth
Observation satellites and their applications, and the international
cooperation for promoting sustainable development in this region.

1. Strategic Plans & Implementations
1.1 China proposed “the Silk Road Economic Belt and thetwenty-first Century Maritime Silk Road Cooperation
Initiative” in 2013.
• Released the Global Ecosystem and Environment EarthObservation: Annual Report from China (GEOARC) in 2016,
focusing on sustainable development, to provide spatial
information on ecological environment changes from 2005 to 2015.
• These remote sensing products can be downloaded on National
Integrated Earth Observation Data Sharing Platform:
http://www.Chinageoss.org.
• GEOARC will continue focusing on this special topic this year.

1. Strategic Plans & Implementations
1.1 China proposed “the Silk Road Economic Belt and thetwenty-first Century Maritime Silk Road Cooperation
Initiative” in 2013.

1. Strategic Plans & Implementations
1.1 China proposed “the Silk Road Economic Belt and thetwenty-first Century Maritime Silk Road Cooperation
Initiative” in 2013.
Global Ecosystem and Environment Observation: Annual Report from China (GEOARC)
 An example of China’s efforts on turning
Earth observation data into knowledge
 Twelve reports have been released withfocused themes since 2013
Data Sharing:
http://www.chinageoss.org/geoarc
Total downloads of datasets > 10TB
Total downloaded over 10,000 times

71. Strategic Plans & Implementations
1.2 China actively responds to Global Climate Change, andhas taken the lead in signing the Paris Climate Agreement
at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou 2016
• Chinese government successfully launched the Global
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Monitoring Scientific Experiment
Satellites (TANSAT) on December 22nd last year.
• Promoting TANSAT data sharing services for GEO & GEOSS• Under the framework of GEO and GEOSS, China GEO will
strengthen the cooperation to set a virtual satellite
constellation for the joint observation.

1. Strategic Plans & Implementations
1.2 China actively responds to Global Climate Change, hastaken the lead in signing the Paris Climate Agreement at
the G20 Summit in Hangzhou 2016

1. Strategic Plans & Implementations
1.3 Chinese government has endorsed and released
National Civil Space Infrastructure for Medium and Longterm Development Plan (2015-2025) in 2015.
• Developments of land, ocean and meteorological satellite series.
• The construction of remote sensing satellite systems arecomposed of 7 constellations and 3 kinds of special satellites.
• It is expected to enhance the global remote sensing data
receiving and global service capabilities.
• The plan will actively support GEO to promote theinternational cooperation and data sharing and services.

1. Strategic Plans & Implementations
1.3 Chinese government has endorsed and released
National Civil Space Infrastructure for Medium and Longterm Development Plan (2015-2025) in 2015.

1. Strategic Plans & Implementations
1.3 Chinese government has endorsed and released
National Civil Space Infrastructure for Medium and Longterm Development Plan (2015-2025) in 2015.
• the Chinese government has successfully launched FENGYUN
4A meteorological satellite on 11 December last year.
• FY 4 satellite is equipped by:––––

multi-channel scanning imagery radiometeratmospheric sounding interferometer
lightning imaging sensor
space environment monitoring instrument

1. Strategic Plans & Implementations
1.3 Chinese government has endorsed and released
National Civil Space Infrastructure for Medium and Longterm Development Plan (2015-2025) in 2015.

1. Strategic Plans & Implementations
1.3 Chinese government has endorsed and released
National Civil Space Infrastructure for Medium and Longterm Development Plan (2015-2025) in 2015.
• China has established a China Remote Sensing Satellite North
Polar Ground Station in Sweden, which will greatly enhance thedata receiving capabilities of Chinese satellites.

2. Engagement in GEO and GEOSS
2.1 As the leading ministry of the Coordination Group andGEO’s Ambassador in China, MOST has brought the other18 ministries, involved in GEO and GEOSS actively.
• Especially in last year, the Coordination Group has selectedfour co-leading ministries, to enhance China GEO to engage inGEO and GEOSS effectively.
– China Meteorological Administration– National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation– Chinese Academy of Sciences– China National Space Administration

2. Engagement in GEO and GEOSS
2.2 As GEO Co-chair Country and the Ambassador in AORegion, China has implemented AOGEOSS Initiative, morecountries will be involved GEO and GEOSS actively.
• To enhance cooperation with Japan, Australia, South Korea,India, Mongolia and other countries, as well as some internationalorganizations, especially UNESCAP• Jointly promote the implementation of AO GEOSS Initiative• More deeply and effectively involved in GEO and GEOSS
implementing plan(2016-2025).

2. Engagement in GEO and GEOSS
2.3 China GEO has initiated China GEOSS ImplementingPlan (2016 -2025) to guide the Chinese government to be
involved in GEO and GEOSS in last year.

3. Actively Implementing the GEO Projects
3.1 Asia-Oceania GEOSS (AO GEOSS) Initiative. The aim isto establish the comprehensive earth observation
application systems in Asia-Oceania region.
Co-leads:
ChinaAustralia
JapanParticipants：

BangladeshIndiaKorea
LaosMongolia
Myanmar
NepalPakistan UNEP-IEMP
 UNESCO-HIST
 WMO
 UNESCAP
 CEOS ICSU/FutureEarth ICSU/IRDR
 …….

3. Actively Implementing the GEO Projects
3.1 Asia-Oceania GEOSS (AO GEOSS) Initiative. The aim isto establish the comprehensive earth observation
application systems in Asia-Oceania region.
• This Initiative is co-led by China, Japan and Australia, with other8 countries and 12 international organizations involved in.
• In this symposium we will discuss on the coordination
mechanism and the road map of AO GEOSS together.
• China GEO will release one of the annual report through
GEOARC, focusing on the ecological environment in this region
by using remote sensing satellite.

3. Actively Implementing the GEO Projects
3.2 Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM) Flagshipwill contribute to generate reliable, accurate, timely andsustained crop monitoring information and yield forecasts.
• As one of the co-leading countries of GEOGLAM, China GEO will
enhance the cooperation with United States, Europe Union andother countries, as well as some POs, especially FAO.
• As one of the three major global crop monitoring system in thisflagship, Chinese CropWatch produces relevant, timely andaccurate forecasts of global agricultural production.

3. Actively Implementing the GEO Projects
3.2 Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM) Flagshipwill contribute to generate reliable, accurate, timely andsustained crop monitoring information and yield forecasts.
• China GEO has released one of the annual reports through
GEOARC each year, focusing on global agricultural monitoringand yield forecasts by using CropWatch since 2014.
 CropWatch: one of the threemajor global crop monitoringsystems
 Producing relevant, timely andaccurate forecasts ofagricultural production

3. Actively Implementing the GEO Projects
3.3 Land Cover and Land Cover Change Community
Activity: accurate and up-to-date land cover and land coverchange products are more important than ever.
• China GEO will to update the Globe Land 30 from 2010 to 2015.

3. Actively Implementing the GEO Projects
3.4 GEO Cold Regions Initiative (GEOCRI). The vision is toprovide coordinated Earth observations and information
services to facilitate well-informed decisions.
• China GEO will promote the implementation of GEOCRI actively.

China’s Engagement in GEO & GEOSS
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