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GEO Work Plan Symposium 2014 WA-01 Task Presentation

GEO Work Plan Symposium 2014 WA-01 Task Presentation. GEO Work Plan Symposium April 28, 2014 Geneva R. Lawford and M. Schlummer based on contributions from D. Arctur, D. Maidment, the AIP-6 team, GEOWOW partners and GEO Water Activity Leads. Key 2014 Outputs.

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GEO Work Plan Symposium 2014 WA-01 Task Presentation

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  1. GEO Work Plan Symposium 2014WA-01 Task Presentation GEO Work Plan Symposium April 28, 2014 Geneva R. Lawford and M. Schlummerbased on contributions from D. Arctur, D. Maidment, the AIP-6 team, GEOWOW partners and GEO Water Activity Leads

  2. Key 2014 Outputs • GEOWOW - GEOSS Interoperability for Weather, Ocean and Water • AIP 6 - GEOSS Water Services for Data and Maps • Water ML 2.0 – OGC/WMO Hydrology Domain Working Group • GEO Great Lakes • Webinars for Capacity Building • Links to Renewable Energy • Links to WEF

  3. AIP 6 Water: GEOSS Water Services for Data and Maps Water Data Maps: Global Stream Gauges Esri ArcGIS Online web map viewer The Benefit: Improving the discovery and access to water resources data around the world and providing the tools and processes for federating the regional and national picture of water data sources to a global system (GEOSS) • WMO GRDC (gauge descriptions only, no water data) • Kisters GRDC (WaterML 2 data for OGC Surface Water IE) • USGS NWIS (most have real-time data) • Mexico (some with historical data, hosted by Univ of Texas) • Dominican Republic (historical data hosted by BYU) • Italy & New Zealand (real-time data, developed for AIP-6) http://bit.ly/19fUSPY

  4. Recommended System Model for Water Data Sharing Community Web Portal Discovery, Access and Visualization (SOS) Data service for time series at one gauge GEOSS (CSW) Catalog of Data Providers’ gauge layers (WFS) Map of gauges (one layer per observed property) for one Data Provider

  5. GEOWOW - Water • Development of a Hydrology Profile for OGC SOS 2.0 specification (WaterML 2.0) • OGC discussion paper available on OGC website: https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=57327 • Preparation of compliant server and client software as new hydrological data services for GCI integration • Use Case: Discover, access and visualize observed (GRDC) and predicted (ECMWF/TIGGE) river discharge data via SOS 2.0/WaterML 2.0 through the GCI

  6. Download with a SOS Choose a helper application to visualize time series

  7. Visualize time series, e. g. an observed hydrograph (GRDC) Visualize time series, e. g. an observed hydrograph Add time series

  8. Future Work: AIP-7 Technological focus • Support discovery and access through GEOSS to additional water resource variables, such as stream depth, precipitation, water quality, soil moisture, evapotranspiration, total water storage. • Promote international conventions for the specific data exchange requests (i.e., allowed parameters and values) between clients & data servers. • Provide cloud-based data services to reduce equipment, software, and training needs for developing countries. Institutional focus • Coordinate with IGWCO and WMO so this development work will become institutionalized by the appropriate international authoritative agencies. • Work with developing countries to improve readiness to share national data

  9. By 2015, produce comprehensive sets of data and information products to support decision-making for efficient management of the world's water resources, based on coordinated, sustained observations of the water cycle on multiple scales. Components of the Water Task: C1: Integrated Water-cycle Products and Services + C2: Information Systems for Hydro-meteorological Extremes (incl. Floods and Droughts) + C3: Information Service for Cold Regions * C4: Global Water-Quality Products and Services + C5: Information System Development and Capacity Building +

  10. The GEO Great Lakes project has been adopted as an operational service in the Great Lakes area. 2012’s below-average cumulative daily load signaled below-average late- summer HABs activity. Special drought anaylsis techniques developed to show the effects of 2009 drought on vegetation water stress (derived from satellite observed PAR anomalies) EC JRC

  11. Other WA-01 Highlights Mo AfWCCI AWCI China India Phili T Joint AfWCCI/AWCI symposium identified joint use of WCI to encourage more synergy Sri Lanka New satellite data resources: ESA SMOS soil moisture products have matured and are showing value in drought monitoring, etc. Recently launched NASA/JAXA GPM satellite shows very promising products Malaysia Malaysia Indonesia

  12. CIEHLYC’s Spanish Webinars are engaging new LAC communities Initiated activities to build a river sediment data base Silt entering Lake Victoria from The Kagera River Completion of the GEOSS Water Strategy Report Executive Summary circulated at the 2014 GEOSS Summit

  13. Cross-Task Activities • Hydropower production potential map for the Renewable Energy Atlas • Use of water data products in wetlands mapping • Exploration of water contribution to a joint HE/WA project on Water Quality and Water-borne disease. (Africa: Potential: 285 GW Installed: 25 GW Planned: 60 GW)

  14. Cross Task Activities (WEF) Launching a joint initiative with GWSP, FAO and others related to the role of Earth Observations in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. Workshop held at FAO in March 2014. Proposal submitted to Future Earth in April 2014. Food production and services account for 70% of consumed water and 1/3rd of the world’s energy use

  15. Evidence of the Use of Task-related Systems, Datasets, Information Products, and Services • GEOSS principles used to develop an interoperability initiative for the transboundary Great Lakes project which became operational in 2014. (The application has been adopted by the International Joint Commission for Canada-US Basins) • Each month 2 million TMPA files (4.5 Terabytes) is distributed from the GES DISC to ~2000 users. (TMPA is one of 1985 precipitation data products in DataCORE!) We need to be clear on the GEO niche. Policy Linkages (e.g. Conventions, Protocols, …….) Indicator applications developed for UNESCO (WWAP) are now part of an EtoE Water Task activity. Data systems for transboundary basins are being developed by AfWCCI (as part of the WCI) in support of IWRM.

  16. Challenges, Issues, and Gaps Hindering Progress • Lack of in-situ data continues to hinder progress for integrated product development. • Lack of resources and lack of experts to deliver on the project plans • Some activity leads may not fully understand/assimilate GEO goals and don’t perceive they have strong support from their management for engaging in the activity.

  17. Intervention needed from GEO Members and POs to Achieve 2015 Strategic Targets • The Water Task needs GEO Members and POs to make specific commitments to carry out actions to address the recommendations of the GEO Water Strategy report. • GEO could provide best practices guidelines on how to set up a project that involves a multinational funding initiative.

  18. Additional Information Requested by the GEO Implementation Boards(Not Part of the Panel Presentation)

  19. In-situ Issues Faced in Implementing GEOSSPriorities beyond 2015 • In-situ networks are not given a high priority by many nations and are often reduced as a response to austerity and budget reductions. • The lack of in-situ data restricts satellite and model validation and impoverishes integrated data products. • Data are often not shared freely and hence do not become an visible essential part of the global services provided to developing countries (e.g. ECMWF forecasts)

  20. Current Practice/Approach to Data Management • The approach to data management depends on who operates the data center and the vintage of the data centre. (Established data centres have difficulty incorporating the newest technologies and data opportunities) • Should we be promoting and supporting a cloud-based option?

  21. Community Portals that Could/Should Be Connected to the GEOSS Portal • Peter Gleik’s water resources data system • Map of applications projects

  22. Progress on Data Sharing and GEOSS DataCORE (remaining barriers?) • Sentinels are a major success – we must ensure the ESA management has success stories from this approach • DataCORE – seems easy to get data in but people become confused trying to get data out (too many choices)

  23. (Potential) Use of Citizen-Science & Big Data? • Water colour measurements • mPing • CoCoRaHS provides inputs for the drought monitoring

  24. « What Worked, What Didn’t » with (previous) GEO Work Plans • Response rate only about 25% without “hounding” by the Task and Component POCs (Activity leads need to see benefit in reporting.) • GEO needs to do more on “incentivizing” at all levels (National governments, users, its own contributors)

  25. Is the 2015 Strategic Target relevant to the next GEOSS Implementation Plan period? (if so, which aspects? if not, how should it evolve?) • It is still relevant but it needs to include a user element and involve the GEO Water Community in interactions with the user community both to consult on needs and to involve them in the co-design and co-development of products.

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