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Introduction to GEO/GEOSS and GEO Cold Region Yubao Qiu GEO Secretariat yqiu @geosec

Introduction to GEO/GEOSS and GEO Cold Region Yubao Qiu GEO Secretariat yqiu @geosec.org. 26 October 2012 Beijing, China. GEO, the Group on Earth Observations An Intergovernmental Organization with 89 Member Countries, the European Commission and 64 Participating Organizations.

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Introduction to GEO/GEOSS and GEO Cold Region Yubao Qiu GEO Secretariat yqiu @geosec

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  1. Introduction to GEO/GEOSS and GEO Cold RegionYubao Qiu GEO Secretariatyqiu@geosec.org 26 October 2012 Beijing, China

  2. GEO, the Group on Earth Observations An Intergovernmental Organization with 89 Member Countries, the European Commission and 64 Participating Organizations There is a Need to coordinate observations and to Share all Earth Observation Data in Standard Interoperable Formats. U.S. Department of State,Washington DC July 31, 2003

  3. Disaster Health Agriculture GEO members : space ability Water Climate Energy Weather Ecosystem Biodiversity

  4. Disaster Health Agriculture GEO POs : Sci & Tec oriented Water Climate Energy Weather Ecosystem Biodiversity

  5. GEOSS: A Global, Coordinated, Comprehensive and Sustained System of Observing Systems Built from the expansion and interlinking of existing observation and information systems and the investments of Members and Participating Organizations in new systems.

  6. How GEO works • Coordinating activities of Members and Participating Organisations • Supporting the development of capabilities for Observations, Processing and Information Dissemination • Encouraging cross-cutting approaches The GEO implementation tool is the Workplan

  7. The GEO Workplan To address targets of the Implementation Plan and track relevant progress, the main tool is a Workplan, approved every year by the GEO Plenary. The Plan is structured in tasks encompassing all the SBA’s and the transverse areas leading to the progressive definition and implementation of GEOSS Current Workplan is the 2012-2015, available at GEO website http://www.earthobservations.org/

  8. Aichi Biodiversity Targets Strategic Goal A Strategic Goal B Strategic Goal C Strategic Goal D Strategic Goal E 7. Agriculture, forest 13. Genetic diversity 15. Climate change 6. Marine resources 10. Coral reefs and 11. Protected areas Strategies & Action 3. Incentives for BD other threatened 1. Awareness of 16. Access and 17. National BD 9. Alien species 12. Threatened and aquaculture 14. Ecosystem 19. Knowledge 18. Indigenous 4. Sustainability Benefit Sharing 2. Value of BD 20. Resources 5. Habitat loss ecosystems biodiversity 8. Pollution knowledge integrated resilience Services species sharing Plans Biodiversity Water Climate Areas/Targets* Ecosystem Societal Benefit Agriculture Health Ocean Land Cover cutting Cross- Areas Forest Impacts Working Plan 2012-2105 Target and Task Cross Cutting Area Cold Region?

  9. Aichi Biodiversity Targets Strategic Goal A Strategic Goal B Strategic Goal C Strategic Goal D Strategic Goal E 7. Agriculture, forest 13. Genetic diversity 15. Climate change 6. Marine resources 10. Coral reefs and 11. Protected areas Strategies & Action 3. Incentives for BD other threatened 1. Awareness of 16. Access and 17. National BD 9. Alien species 12. Threatened and aquaculture 14. Ecosystem 19. Knowledge 18. Indigenous 4. Sustainability Benefit Sharing 2. Value of BD 20. Resources 5. Habitat loss ecosystems biodiversity 8. Pollution knowledge integrated resilience Services species sharing Plans Biodiversity Water Climate Areas/Targets* Ecosystem Societal Benefit Agriculture Health Ocean Land Cover cutting Cross- Areas Forest Impacts Working Plan 2012-2105 Target and Task

  10. Global Issue: The Cryospheric Components It includes snow, sea ice, lake and river ice, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, permafrost and seasonally frozen ground, and solid precipitation

  11. Heritage: IGOS-P, IPY, GEO Tasks “Legacy of the International Polar Year 2007-08”, AR-09-03b. (Subtask of AR-09-03: Advocating for Sustained Observing Systems) Another subtask, “Accelerating the Implementation of the Global Climate Observing System” (CL-09-02), includes the Global Cryosphere Watch. A few other tasks address snow and ice issues at least peripherally (e.g., CL-06-01, EC-09-01). By Jeff Key, 2010 A contribution to GEOSS : The GCW - The cryosphere community of practice concept is part of the GCW strategy. WP2012-2015: GEO - Information Services for Cold Region

  12. Disaster Health Agriculture Observation Platform Coordination Space Observations In-situ Measurements Services Needs Water Climate Energy Weather Ecosystem Biodiversity

  13. Now : GEO Cold Region Contribution: Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, United States, IEEE, SAON, WMO, INTERACT, ICIMOD, CLIC… • In Work plan 2012-2015: Priority Actions • Promote the implementation of the SAON project (Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks; see also IN-01-C3-Promotion and Coordination across Surface-based and Space-based Observing Systems) • GLIMS, GlobGlacier, and the National Snow and Ice Data Center. see also IN-01 • In-situ and remotely-sensed data measuring frozen ground, glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, and snow. (incl. INTERACT, and etc) • Link Polar Data Catalogue, National Snow and Ice Data Centre, and SAON through GEOSS interoperability standards (as part of GCW) • New Actions: • Provide the CryoClim Cryospheric climate monitoring service • Integration of Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) in GEOSS • Providing the essential climate variable sea ice for the Arctic and the Antarctic • Snow Cover mapping and experiment for the Tibetan Plateau • Glacier dynamics mapping in Tibetan Plateau using satellite observations

  14. GEO Broker Global Initiatives: Arctic: SAON INTERACT Antarctic: … The third pole PSTG … GCW… CEOS IGOS-P Cryo. GEO Web Portal Regional GEOSS

  15. Output: • Science-based vision • User Driven • Strategy Driven • Development: suggestions The way forward…?

  16. Thank you! GEO Cold Region: COLD-REGION@list.geosec.org

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