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UPDATE: EARTH OBSERVATION

UPDATE: EARTH OBSERVATION. Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.) Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere Earth Observation Constituents Briefing April 15, 2004. AGENDA CONSTITUENT BRIEFING. Opening Remarks

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UPDATE: EARTH OBSERVATION

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  1. UPDATE: EARTH OBSERVATION Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.) Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere Earth Observation Constituents Briefing April 15, 2004

  2. AGENDACONSTITUENT BRIEFING • Opening Remarks • Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans at Atmosphere • Setting the National Stage • Dr. Kathie Olsen, Associate Director for Science, Office of Science & Technology Policy • Earth Observations & EPA • Dr. Paul Gilman, Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, EPA • International & National Activities • Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans at Atmosphere

  3. EARTH OBSERVATION SUMMIT I 34Nations 20International Organizations Washington, D.C. July 31, 2003

  4. Natural Disaster Mitigation Environment &Human Health Sustainable Development(Energy) Climate ChangeImpacts Water ResourceManagement Weather Information& Prediction Coastal EcosystemManagement Inland EcosystemManagement Sustainable Development(Agriculture) Biodiversity BENEFITS OF OBSERVATIONS

  5. NATIONAL STAGECONSTITUENT BRIEFING • Dr. Kathie Olsen, Associate Director for Science, Office of Science & Technology Policy

  6. EPA & EARTH OBSERVATIONCONSTITUENT BRIEFING • Dr. Paul Gilman, Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, EPA

  7. ROAD AHEADINTERNATIONAL • Earth Observation Summit 1 established Group on Earth Observations (GEO) • Has met 3 times since Summit • 47 Countries + EC and 26 International Organizations • GEO-4, Tokyo, Japan • Finalize draft Communiqué and Framework Document • Submit documents to Ministers at Summit II for Approval

  8. ROAD AHEADINTERNATIONAL • GEO-3 established Implementation Plan Task Team (IPTT) • IPTT will draft 10-year Implementation Plan • Annotated outline presented in Tokyo • IPPT is comprised of one representative nominated by each GEO Co-Chair • European Commission, David Williams of EUMETSAT • Japan, Toshio Koike of Tokyo University • South Africa, Robert Scholes of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) • United States, Ivan DeLoatch of USGS

  9. ROAD AHEADNATIONAL • Interagency Working Group on Earth Observations (IWGEO) • Developing US Comments to international process • Developing US 10-year implementation plan • Continuing to engage academic, industry, and non-profit partners to guarantee plan comprehensive and useful • April and June workshops are being planned to coordinate expert input and comment • Industry alliance has been formed • Planning anniversary of Washington Summit event and roll-out of the last draft of10-year Implementation Plan for broad community review and comment • Continue education/outreach on the global initiative

  10. ROAD AHEADNATIONAL • The U.S. 10-year Implementation Plan (focuses on societal benefits) • Reduce loss of life and property from disasters • Protect and monitor ocean resources • Understand climate, and assess and mitigate climate change impacts • Support sustainable agriculture and combat land degradation • Understand the effect of environmental factors on human health and promote well-being • Develop capacity to make ecological forecasts • Protect and monitor water resources • US plan will have flexibility to incorporate additional societal benefit areas • Will work to integrate these benefit areas with the international plan.

  11. BACKUP SLIDES

  12. MORE INFORMATION • http://earthobservations.org

  13. GEO MEMBERS (47+EC)

  14. PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS • Association for the Development of Environmental Information (ADIE) • Central American Commission for the Environment and Development (SICA/CCAD) • Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) • European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) • European Environmental Agency (EEA) • European Space Agency (ESA) • European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) • Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) • Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) • Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) • Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) • Integrated Global Observing Strategy Partnership (IGOS-P)

  15. PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS (contd.) • Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commissions (IOC) • International Association of Geodesy (IAG) • International Council for Science (ICSU) • International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) • International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research (IGFA) • International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM) • International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) • Network of European Meteorological Services/Composite Observing System (EUMETNET/EUCOS) • Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO) • United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) • United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) • United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) • World Bank (IBRD) • World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) • World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

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