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Eye on Earth Jacqueline McGlade Chris Steenmans

Eye on Earth Jacqueline McGlade Chris Steenmans. http:// www.eyeonearth.org/. Eye on Earth is…. A global public environment information platform A tool for data and information sharing A global network of networks. A Global Public Environment Information Platform.

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Eye on Earth Jacqueline McGlade Chris Steenmans

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  1. Eye on Earth Jacqueline McGlade Chris Steenmans http://www.eyeonearth.org/

  2. Eye on Earth is… • A global public environment information platform • A tool for data and information sharing • Aglobal networkof networks

  3. A Global Public Environment Information Platform Contributing to building a user driven GEOSS (ID-04-C3)

  4. Based on principles of aShared Environmental Information System • Data and information are: • Managed as close as possible to its source. • Collected once, and shared with others for many purposes. • Readily available to easily fulfil reporting obligations. • Easily accessible to all users. • Accessible to enable comparisons at the appropriate geographical scale, and citizen participation. • Fully available to the general public, and at the national level in the relevant national language(s). • Supported through common, free open software standards.

  5. A tool for data and information sharing

  6. The result of a public-private-partnership Microsoft Sharepoint Web-services ArcGis Online - API WMS/REST/KML ESRI ArcGis online Templates Scripts

  7. Building a Global Citizen Observatory EEA Watches • Near real time • Citizens science • Crowd sourcing • Modelled data • Social media • Mobile technology • Cloud computing • Open access

  8. Serving a broad user community Explore Contribute Create

  9. Serving major global initiatives

  10. Eye on Global Network of Networks Use of own infrastructure & sharing some services w. EoE Hosted by Germany and partly EEA EC Hosted via EEA Managed and owned by Slovenia NGOs and small communities DE SE Eye on Earth(sharing is everything) EEA Eionet SL UNEP Servers partly in the cloud and on own premises. Sharing w. partners you USEPA EEA: European Environment Agency Eionet: European Envirojmental Information and Observation Network EC: European CommissionWHO: World Health Organisation SE: Sweden, SL: Slovenia, DE: Germany (Note: These are just examplesof potential national and international networks contributing to GNON)

  11. GEOSS and GNON* mutually supportive MONITORING Measure & record DATA Integrate & manage INFORMATION Visualise & describe ASSESSMENT Analyse & understand REPORTING Explain & communicate GEOSS GNON *GNON = Global Network of Networks, an Eye on Earth Special Initiative

  12. Next milestones • First User Conference Eye on Earth 4-6 March 2013, Dublin • UNEP Live Governing Council 2013 • GEO-X Plenary 2013 • Second Eye on Earth Summit 2014, Abu Dhabi

  13. Thank you

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