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GEO-IX, Foz de Igiuacu, November 2012.

GEO Outreach to the Balkans - Results of the BalkanGEONet project - Vesna Crnojevic-Bengin UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD, Serbia. GEO-IX, Foz de Igiuacu, November 2012. Background. GEO outreach to Balkans assessed based on the results of the ongoing FP7 BalkanGEONet project

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GEO-IX, Foz de Igiuacu, November 2012.

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  1. GEO Outreach to the Balkans- Results of the BalkanGEONet project -Vesna Crnojevic-BenginUNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD, Serbia GEO-IX, Foz de Igiuacu, November 2012.

  2. Background • GEO outreach to Balkans assessed based on the results of the ongoing FP7 BalkanGEONet project • „Balkan GEO Network – Towards Inclusion of Balkan Countries into Global Earth Observation Initiatives“ • ENV.2010.4.1.4-1: Identification and Networking of EO activities in the Balkan area • 16 partners from all countries in the wider Balkan region • Expected impact: to contribute to building institutional capacity to use EO and to establishing regional CB networks

  3. Outline BalkanGEONet methodology for gap analysis Results of the gap analysis used to evaluate the impact of GEO to the region

  4. B.GN Approach 235 278 • WP2 & WP3provided a realistic picture of Balkan EO landscape • WP4 – Gap analysis • BalkanGEONet methodologydeveloped

  5. B.GN Gap Analysis

  6. Background • Detailed analysis revealed that none of the existing methodologies fit our purpose: • GIGAS: many details needed on the limited number of activities • Environmental Management Gap Analysis Tool from EEA: too many details on the activities to be analysed need to be known • Since the goal of B.GN is to work towards inclusion of the Balkan countries into GEO, it is important to structure the gap analysis done within B.GN along the lines of GEO actions.

  7. B.GN Methodology • Structured wrt. GEO Action 19.11, Task US-09-01a. • Our goal: • To assess the potential available • To define the directions of future development • Our approach: • Opportunity assessment: identifying where investments would add value and leverage existing strengths • Structural gap analysis across geographic, observational and domain variables • Carefull development of indicators

  8. Indicators for General GA

  9. Indicators for “Providers/Producers”Group

  10. Indicators for “Users” Group

  11. Indicators for “Activities”

  12. Integration of geographical aspects

  13. Quantifying the Indicators • The evaluation for each indicator has been calculated by averaging the survey inputs. • E.g. if the average mark was 3 (60%), a score above 75% or 3.75 indicates high relevance of the issue for Balkan stakeholders while a score below 45% or 2.25 indicates low importance of the issue: Score < 45%: low relevance of the respective issue Score 45%- 59%: moderate relevance of the respective issue Score 60% - 74%: considerable relevance of the respective issue Score 75% – 84%: high relevance of the respective issue Score ≥ 85%: very high relevance of the respective issue

  14. B.GN Results …selected to highlight the impact of GEO

  15. Number of Stakeholders 50 % more stakeholders in GEO countries! Similar difference exists for producers/providers and users

  16. Type of EO Data • GEO member countries: • Rely more on remote sensing and satellite data than on in-situ and other types of data • Non-GEO countries: • Rely more on in-situ data collection since it requires less investment to deploy.

  17. Stakeholders Across SBAa GEO outreach reflected through number of organisations

  18. SBA Coverage Across Countries Membership to GEO significantly reflected

  19. Type of Stakeholders Sci. Ac. Sci. Other Ac. Oth. Public Int. Int. NGO NGO Public Comm. Gov. Gov. Comm. GEO-countries Non-GEO countries GEO outreach mirrored onto type of organisations

  20. Does your organization provide and/or use EO data? A1 Yes, we only provide EO data A2 Yes, we both provide and use EO data A3 Yes, we only use EO data A4 No, but we would like to use EO data A5 No, but we would like to learn if EO data can be used to enhance our business A6 No Most EO players both provide and use EO data – Action needed! Similar for GEO and non-GEO countries Outliers: e.g. FYROM, Greece and Romania, where use of EO data dominates over production.

  21. Does your organization provide and/or use EO data? A1 Yes, we only provide EO data A2 Yes, we both provide and use EO data A3 Yes, we only use EO data A4 No, but we would like to use EO data A5 No, but we would like to learn if EO data can be used to enhance our business A6 No Potential new users of EO data (answers A4 and A5): 16.5% ! Potential is similar for GEO and non-GEO countries Some countries show remarkable ambition to use EO data: Albania (23.8%), Montenegro (25.0%), Serbia (29.5%), Turkey (30.7%) !

  22. Scientific Activity Top 10 institutions per country High-impact journals, 2006 - 2012

  23. Web-Based Disseminaiton Important indicator of the degree of international integration Top 10 institutions per country

  24. Conclusion • Results clearly illustrate the impact of GEO to the countries in the wider Balkan region • B.GN methodology is scalable and applicable to any other region • It can be used to evaluate the level of current and importance of future GEO outreach, and to indicate directions where future efforts should be focused, e.g.: • Capacity building across various geographic, observational and domain (SBA) categories • Outreach to contributors and users of GEOSS • Raising awarenes of decision- and policy-makers

  25. Thank you! more details can be found on www.BalkanGEO.net bengin@uns.ac.rs

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