GEO and A Look Forward
Osamu Ochiai
On behalf of Barbara RyanGEO Secretariat
9th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium
11-13 January 2017, Tokyo

GEO Vision2016 Progress• Reinforcing GEO’s ‘convening power’ – Members, POs,Development Banks, Foundations, emerging Commercial
Sector;• Continued evolution & recognition of Policy Mandates;• Transition year for GEO’s Programme;• Implementation of new programmatic mechanisms –Community Activities, Initiatives and Foundational Tasks.

GEO-XIII highlights

Hosted by Russian Federation (ROSHYDROMET/ROSCOSMOS)
St. Petersburg, November 9-10, 2016Message fromISS Russian Cosmonauts

400+ Participants
20 Side Events
10 Exhibits
75 Commercial
Participants

Private Sector PanelGEO-XIII highlights (cont)• Approved new members, participating organizations andobservers• Follow up of the Mexico City Ministerial Declaration:– Broad engagement to leverage GEO’s convening power, including commercial
sector – set Initial 3 priorities– Support for SDGs - role of GEO Principals to engage with national statisticalagencies, inform of importance of EO and GEO– Agreed to pursue implementation of Data Sharing Principles and DataManagement Principles– Strengthened and facilitated regional initiatives – established AfriGEOSS,
AmeriGEOSS and AOGEOSS• Brand new released GEOSS Portal as one stop entry point todiscover and access GEOSS assets – visit geoportal.org• Approved the GEO Work Programme 2017-2019• Approved the GEO Executive Committee members• Approved the GEO Programme Board Slate of nominees

Asia and Oceania

103 GEO Members

Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel,Japan, Korea, Republic of, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand,Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam

106 Participating Organizations

A Global Earth Observation System of Systems

Integrating Earth Observations Across Many Platforms
and Disciplines to Benefit Society

8 Societal Benefit Areas

GEO Governance Structure in 2017
• GEO Plenary– 103 Member Governments, 106 Participating Organizations, 12Observers• GEO Executive Committee– Africa: Egypt, Senegal, South Africa– Americas: Colombia, Mexico, United States– CIS: Armenia, Russian Federation– Asia/Oceania: Australia, China, Japan, Korea– Europe: EC, Finland, France, United Kingdom– Observers from Programme Board: TBD• GEO Programme Board– 33 members from GEO Members and Participating Organizations

Engagement Priorities 2017-2019
Five priorities:- 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development- Climate Change – Greenhouse Gas Monitoring- Disaster Risk Reduction- Resilient cities and human settlements- Ecosystem accounting
Criteria:- Political relevance building on well-established, recent
or upcoming international agreements- Strong and active communities and activities in GEO- Potential to secure resourcesTransforming Our World: The 2030 Plan for Global Action - Article 76:“We will promote transparent and accountable scaling-up ofappropriate public-private cooperation to exploit the contribution to bemade by a wide range of data, including Earth observation and geospatial information, while ensuring national ownership in supporting
and tracking progress.”Data Sharing and Management Principles• Reaffirm support for GEO’s Data Sharing Principles (DSPs)
and Data Management Principles (DMPs)– DSPs: Full&open exchange, Minimum time delay and minimum cost,
Free of charge or no more than reproduction cost
– DMPs: Discoverability, Accessibility, Usability, Preservation andCuration• Resolve to pursue implementation of DSPs & DataManagement Principles (DMPs)– DSPs for selling benefits of open data to government,– DMPs for focusing on common variables to improve data quality andusability

Enabling System of Systems

New released GEOSS Portal
geoportal.org

3054 users

2713 users
301 users
150 users• New stations deployed throughout the system (around 20 per month)• Shared user management between EUMETCast & CMACast for usersof exchanged data
• Broadcast bandwidth increased in Europe (DVB-S2 service) toaccommodate new satellites & productsFour Types of GEO Implementation mechanismsSBAs, Community Activities and Initiatives
SBA

GEO Flagships and Initiatives

Community Activities

GEO Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON)
Global Forest Observation Initiative (GFOI)

Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Early Warning System

GEO Global Ecosystem Initiative (GEO ECO)GEO Global Network for Observation and Information in Mountain
Environments (GEO-GNOME)
Earth Observations for Ecosystem Accounting (EO4EA)

Global Mangrove Monitoring

GEO Wetlands Initiative
Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories (GSNL)

Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS)Space and Security
Chinese Tsunami Mitigation System
Earth Observations for Disaster Risk Management
Global Flood Risk Monitoring
Earth Observations for Geohazards, Land
Degradation and Environmental Monitoring

Data Access for Risk Management (GEO-DARMA)GEO Vision for Energy (GEO VENER)

Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS)
Earth Observations for Managing Mineral
Resources

SBAs, Community Activities and Initiatives
SBA

Community Activities

GEO Flagships and Initiatives
GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEO-GLAM)

Global Agricultural Drought Monitoring

Global Observation System for Mercury (GOS4M)
Global Observation System for Persistent Organic
Pollutants (GOS4POPS)AIRNOW International: Expanding Networks andIntegrating Methods for Air Quality and Health Data

Global Urban Observation and Information
GEO Human Planet Initiative: Spatial Modeling of Impact,
Exposure And Access to Resources
GDIS (Global Drought Information System)
GEOCRI (Information Systems for Cold Regions)

In Situ Observations For Water Cycle
Aquawatch
DIAS
EARTH2OBSERVEGEOGLOWS (GEO Global Water Sustainability)

Water-Energy-Food Nexus

GEO Initiatives not associated with one SBAGEO Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Climate Change Impact Observation On Africa's Coastal Zones(GEO-CCIOACZ)
AfriGEOSS: Reinforcing Regional African Engagement
AmeriGEOSS
Asia-Oceania GEOSS (AOGEOSS)
Oceans and Society: BLUE PLANET
Earth Observations in Service of the 2030 Agenda For
Sustainable Development
GEOSS-EVOLVE

ClimateRegional
Coordination
Ocean
SDGs
Support GEOSSCommunity Activities not associated with one SBA
GFCS - GEO Collaboration
TIGGE (THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble) Evolution into a Global
ClimateInteractive Forecast System (GIFS)
Research Data Science Summer Schools
Capacity Building
Forest Biodiversity in Asia and the Pacific Region: Capacity Building Phase
Advancing Communications Network
Land Cover and Land Cover Change
Land Cover for Africa
Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)
Support to GEOSS
Digital GEOMEUSIUM
Earth Observations for Cultural Heritage Documentation
African Geochemical Baselines
Himalayan GEOSSSocio-Economic Benefits from Earth Observations

Foundational Tasks
GEOSS Development and GCI Operations
Advancing GEOSS Data Sharing Principles
GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) Operations
GEOSS In Situ Earth Observation Resources
GEOSS Satellite Earth Observation Resources
GEONETCast Development and Operations
User Needs and Gaps Analysis
Community Development
Capacity Building coordination
Secretariat Operations
Management and Support
Communication and Engagement
Monitoring and Evaluation

GEO and SDGs

SDG Initiative

Alignment of EarthObs. and GEO tothe 17 Goals, 169
Targets, and 230
Indicators
SDGs with mostopportunities:

Taking it to scale . . .
Next StepsWork with statisticalagencies to ensure themethods are sound for use
with Indicators and Targets
Ensure the methods andsolutions are available
for all to use
Support countries andstakeholders to use themethods and build capacity

othersRegional Initiatives
Resolve to strengthen & facilitate active participation ofdeveloping countries, including through Regional Initiatives –AfriGEOSS, AmeriGEOSS, AOGEOSSAOGEOSS9th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium• Plenary – Country report on implementing national GEOSS andSDGs, Panel discussions• 5WGs– WG1: Asia Water Cycle Initiative– WG2: Asia Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network (AP-BON)– WG3: The GEO Carbon and GHG Initiative;– WG4: Ocean and Society; and– WG5: Agriculture and Food Security (GEOGLAM)

Countries have borders;
Earth observations don’t.
Barbara J. RyanDirector, GEO Secretariat
Adapted from NY Times
September 2015

2017 GEO-XIV Washington DC, US
2018 GEO-XV Japan

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