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Key 2014 Outputs

GEO Work Plan Symposium 2014 Institutional and Individual Development Gregory Giuliani, Hilcea Ferreira, Andiswa Mlisa. Key 2014 Outputs.

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Key 2014 Outputs

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  1. GEO Work Plan Symposium 2014Institutional and Individual DevelopmentGregory Giuliani, Hilcea Ferreira, Andiswa Mlisa

  2. Key 2014 Outputs • Open source software for RS image processing and GIS is under development and timely made available for training and use (ILWIS, GEONETCast Toolbox, SPRING and Terra Family). • Improvement of coordination among capacity-building networks through the GEOSSportal. • Increased availability of tools and training opportunities focusing on SBAs. • Projects: EOPOWER, IASON, AgriCab, GEONetCast, EnerGEO, CLIMVAR, REGATTA, SEOCA, SERVIR, …

  3. Cross-Task Activities • GEONETCAB Catalog: http://geonetcab.mdweb-project.org/ • Cataloguing and searching application to discover Capacity Building resources in connection with Capacity Building Inventory Project, co-led by CEOS WGCapD , EOPOWER and IASON projects. • Supported by EU/FP7 EOPOWER and IASON projects • CSW compliant • Moving towards a System of Systems approach. • Will be presented during the CB side-event on May 1st

  4. Cross-Task Activities

  5. Cross-Task Activities • Allows discovering of: • Directory of resource providers; • Technical experts; • Open source software; • Sponsored EO resources; • Thematic EO product; • Tutorial and technical guidelines; • Marketing toolkit for each SBA; • Success stories as a reference to emphasis the good practices; • Trainings; • Funding organizations.

  6. Evidence of the Use of Task-related Systems, Datasets, Information Products, and Services(use statistics available?) • Short demos • GEONetCab portal: http://geonetcab.mdweb-project.org • EnviroGRIDS portal: http://portal.envirogrids.net • AfroMaison Broker: http://afromaison.grid.unep.ch:8080/gi-cat/gi-portal

  7. Policy Linkages (e.g. Conventions, Protocols, International Programmes) • National Strategy for Civil Earth Observations [USA] • http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/nstc_2013_earthobsstrategy.pdf • Belgian EO Platform • http://eo.belspo.be/About/Default.aspx • Key message: though it may not be officially recognise as a policy, without CB (institutional and individual capacity development), GEOSS will have no meet the intended mandate

  8. Intervention needed from GEO Members and POs to Achieve 2015 Strategic Targets • Call upon members who have CB as an institutional mandate to join (contribute to) ID-02 • Provision of • CB material, resources, events etc. to populate the CB Portal • information on CB activities for the CB Inventory being development by CEOS • CB activities to populate the performance indicators survey (or ask them to provide information somehow?)

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