AUSTRALIAN GEOSS REPORT
9th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium

Tokyo, Japan, January 2017

Dr. Andy Steven- CSIRO

Australian Reporting Institutions• Australian Bureau of Meteorology• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation (CSIRO)• Geoscience Australia,• Space Coordination Office, Department ofIndustry© GEO cretariat

Highlights
1. Continued Support and Engagement withGEO and Initiatives
2. CEOS Chairmanship 2016
3. Support for Satellite missions
4. Australian Geophysical Data Cube projectand support for other countries
5. APEC Earth and Marine Observations
workshopSupporting GEO Initiatives• ExComm (S. Minchin)• Program Board via Blue Planet, GFOI, CEOSSecretariat• GEO Blue Planet (A. Steven)• GFOI –Satellite Data Coordination Group (A.
Held)• GEOGLAM Implementation Team, and Advisory
Committee (J. Guerschman & A. Held)• GEO Aquawatch (A. Dekker)• GEO Sustainable Development Goals Initiative –via lead of CEOS SDG Ad-hoc team (A. Held)Asia-Oceania GEOSS
Priority Areas
Improving
regional
observingability Sustainable Agricultural
 Cross-regional disaster mitigation
 Ecology & environment

Regionalapplications

AO GEOSS

 Infrastructure monitoring Surveying and mapping Ocean remote sensing monitoring Water resources
 ……

Technology
cooperation
network

Data andinformation
products
processing

Earthobservation
data sharing
service5

2016 Chair of Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
Non-Meteorological
Future Data Access Applications& Analysis for
Next
Generation Geostationary
Architectures
Satellites• Review relevant initiatives andplans missions, instruments, and nonIdentify
metalgorithms/applicationsof relevance
Evaluatelessons learned fromearly prototypes
Assessand prioritize various applications
Identify
key issues
andalgorithmsfor andcoordination throughopportunities around Big Data,
CEOS
Analysis Ready Data, EO• Identify key issues and opportunities,
platforms
including in the specification of• requirements
Make recommendations
CEOSfor relevant forfutureand its agencies
missions
and instruments••••

CEOS Plenary, Brisbane, Australia
November 1-2 2016CEOS DataCube Initiative and regional Pilots – Kenya,
Colombia and new “MekongCube” with Vietnam Space CenterSupporting Satellite Missions & Datacube Application
Data Cube applications• Domestic: AGDC further developed apps on water, coastalvegetation• International: CEOS Datacube (with NASA)• Other countries: Assisted Pilot projects in Kenya, Columbia,• Discussions: Vietnam, China, Canada, Switzerland, Chile

Satellite Missions and Applications• HIMAWARI• Himawari NMO Working group• Developing atmospheric corrections for Himawari• COPERNICUS• Copernicus Regional Hub• Sentinel 2 and 3 working groups and validation projects• NASA CORAL Mission• Support calibrations missions in Australia

Australia Geo Data Cube
• Vegetation
change,Scaleagricultural production
Continental• Floodmapping,farm dam
Waterinundation
Observations
from Spacedevelopment• Wetland management and characterisation• Carbon accounting• Seagrass and substrate mapping• Coastal change and water quality• Shallow water bathymetry• Mining footprint and urban development• Bushfire scar mapping and forestry
inventory• Location-specific products for mobileplatforms“Map my paddock”

Australia’s Regional Copernicus Data Access/Analysis Hub
All Sentinel Products For

For more information and the data please visit:www.copernicus.gov.au
Supporting

Consortium

Partners

Collaborators

Workshop on Building Regional Earth andMarine Observing Systems to Safeguard
APEC Resources and Communities• Facilitate and share in-situ data among economies• Utiliise satellite data including overlap of geostationary satellites across the APEC
region,• Downscale climate projections to scales relevant for decision-making• Engage other APEC member economies in GEOGLAM• Encourage shared investment in detecting and diagnosing the ENSO
• Encourage innovation to lower the cost of sensors and other observing platforms• Facilitate the transfer of knowledge and capacity building of earth and marine
observation communities across APEC member economies• Target the enhancement of existing observing networks• Assist in the evaluation of the economic benefits of earth and marine observing
work• Raise awareness of earth and marine observing systems to relevant policy-makers

http://www.earthmarineobserving.org

THANK YOU
Andy Steven
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
andy.steven@csiro.au