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Item 11 CEOS Report and Actions for GEO-V Plenary

Item 11 CEOS Report and Actions for GEO-V Plenary. Ivan Petiteville, ESA CEO. Background. At GEO Plenary, GEO Members & Participating Organisations have limited time for their oral reports.

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Item 11 CEOS Report and Actions for GEO-V Plenary

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  1. Item 11CEOS Report and Actions for GEO-V Plenary Ivan Petiteville, ESA CEO

  2. Background • At GEO Plenary, GEO Members & Participating Organisations have limited time for their oral reports • CEOS will report only on a subset of activities representative of the CEOS efforts and achievements • 14 CEOS GEO Actions proposed by each WG Chair, Virtual Constellation Lead and CEOS SBA Coordinator(June 08)

  3. CEOS Achievements: Rational for Selection • 14 CEOS GEO actions initiallyproposed (Jun. 08) • uneven progress not representative of overall good achievements on Cat 1 actions. • Agreement to report on a few successful actions selected from those 14 actions (SIT-22, Sep. 08) • Actions to be selected to illustrate the variety of outcomes (e.g. new datasets, key documents, thematic web portals, etc..) • Addition of few other major achievements that are not directly related to specific “GEO Task” but of interest for GEO Community

  4. Main Messages from CEOS Report • Significant efforts: CEOS is deeply committed to GEO • CEOS Agencies allocated many resources to support GEO activities in 2008. • Major contributions from Working Groups and Virtual Constellation Teams • Several tangible achievements: several GEO ‘2007-2009’ Tasks supported successfully either as Lead or Contributor. • Several concrete examples of achievements listed as outcomes from some top priority actions selected among: • 21 “GCOS” actions(GEO Task CL-06-02) • 60 “GEO” actions(GEO Tasks other than CL-06-02) • 2 new Virtual Constellations initiated to support • Demos of Climate and Land Surface Imaging web portals

  5. CEOS Achievements: Examples in Report • More than 30 new datasets registered in GEOSS • 9 years of GlobCarbon information (AATSR, ATSR , MERIS, VEGETATION merged data) on the evolution of the vegetation cover and related parameters. • 50m orthorectified mosaic (ALOS PALSAR) accessible thru new “ALOS Kyoto and Carbon Initiative” web site. • ECVs for Arctic and Antarctic generated in real time from NOAA’s AVHRR data: • support to International Polar Year • long-term historical dataset of polar climate change ranging from 1981 to the present. • Key documents: • “Guidelines on calibration/validation for data quality control/assurance and best practices” (WGCV) aiming at increasing the availability, suitability and reliability of observations. • “CEOS 2008 Earth Observation Handbook”: special issue on Climate Change and major update on space-based Earth Observation missions. • Implementation of thematic web portals: • Climate and LSI (WGISS) • Installation of 4 additional carbon flux towers in Africa to improve the network of ground-based observations of greenhouse gases

  6. Main Comment on Report (1/2) • Suggestion: the report should also address the CEOS’s “priority for 2009 to promote ourselves better and our achievements”. • Examples proposed: • the “2 new CEOS-led GEO tasks in relation to REDD and in relation to the GHG “

  7. Main Comment on Report (2/2) • If CEOS agrees with that suggestion, the examples of 2009-2011 GEO Tasks could be selected according to criteria such as: • GEO Tasks not mentioned earlier in the report, • GEO Tasks that are new (not already in GEO 2006-2007 WP) • GEO Tasks for which there has been a clear engagement of some CEOS partners • Four candidates meet the above criteria : 1. CB-09-05: Infrastructure Development and Technology Transfer for Information Access • b) CBERS 2. CL-09-03: Global Carbon Observation and Analysis System • b) Forest Carbon Tracking 3. CL-09-03 Global Carbon Observation and Analysis System • c) Global Monitoring of Greenhouse Gases from Space 4. HE-09-03: End to End Projects for Health • b) Globally coordinated malaria warning system. • CEOS Plenary is invited to agree on a subset among the 4 above GEO Tasks

  8. THANK YOU …. QUESTIONS ?

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