GEO2

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Draft GEO Framework, Chapter 4/5 USER
REQUIREMENTS OUTREACH
SG co-chairs Stephen Briggs, CEOS Ezio
Bussoletti, Italian Ministry of the
Environment Giorgio Cesari, Italian Agency for
Environment - APAT David Kendall , Canadian
Space Agency Ewen MacCallum, MET Office, UK
Presented by Ezio Bussoletti
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Scope

• URSG Scope
• Develop for the 10-year implementation plan an
  effective mechanisms to identify high priorities
  requirements for current and future EO
• Starting from
• Analysing usersneeds for EO data and
  information at
• local, national, regional, global levels
• through
• a user-driven
• rather than
• technologically-driven approach

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Approach

• Main Users categories identification
• Key topics selection
• Analysis of existing inventories of major user
  requirements (international, national)
  current status and gaps.
• How to tackle the gaps
• Definition of mechanisms for effective
  user-involvement
• Outreach mechanisms

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Main Users Categories

• policy makers at both national and international
  levels
• agencies and institutions responsible for policy
  implementation and enforcement at global,
  regional, national and local levels
• agencies and institutions responsible for
  co-ordination of national and international
  observation systems (operational)
• scientific communities who provide inputs into
  policy formulation (universities and national and
  international research agencies and centres
• Industry and commercial sectors - often the
  target of policy decisions
• NGOs
• the general public

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Existing Inventories (1)
Preliminary review to be completed with
additional contributions

• GCOS, IGOS-P, WMO, GOOS, WRCP analysis
• sound knowledge
• of data requirements
• on current modelling and on necessary
  improvement
• on observations systems (satellite and in situ)
  needs at global and at regional or local scales
• for research and climate change communities,
  weather forecast (extreme events), support
  convention on climate
• IGOS- P provide also analysis on continuity and
  knowledge challenges for oceans, water,
  geohazards, carbon, coral reefs, coastal zone,
  atmospheric chemistry

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Inventories (2)

• GMES - a joint programme of the EC and ESA
• Includes analysis of users requirements
  (information, data, modelling)
• Through
• ad hoc inventories (e.g. BICEPS)
• Users directly involved in EU Projects (5th and
  6th EC Framework Programmes) and ESA GMES
  Service Elements Programme
• Environment (climate change, air quality, marine
  environment, coastal zones, soil management, land
  use., inland water management) and Natural and
  anthropogenic hazards (forest fires, oil spills,
  flood, eutrophication) and Security (Food,
  humanitarian aid).
• GMES main contribution of Europe to GEO

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Inventories (3)

• National Inventories (from members of the
  subgroup)
• Others will be added
• Canada (e.g. specific operational need with
  radar ice monitoring)
• France (Agriculture, forestry, tropical zones
  and oceans, soil protection, creation of a GEO
  mirror group for UR)
• Italy (National requirements for environmental
  monitoring, surveillance and risk management
  fires, flood, landslides, oilspills, in
  connection with the COSMO-SkyMed programme)
• Sweden (e.g. specific request / forest
  management)
• US (e.g. human health, earthquakes, water
  quality, water resources, oceans and coastal
  zone, weather and climate, land, air quality,
  space weather and atmosphere).

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Analysis of existing Inventories (1)
In order to

• extract current status and gaps from global to
  local levels
• identify priorities
• identify commonalities of users requirements
  across user categories (information, data, model,
  etc..) among topics
• provide recommendations and inputs to the other
  GEO subgroups (architecture, data utilisation,
  capacity building and International Cooperation).

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Analysis of existing Inventories (2)
Possible Work approach for UR subgroup
Topic Atmosphere climate change Oceans and
Marine environment Inland water Soil and
land Biodiversity and nature protection Natural
and human-produced hazards Integrated regional
management and territorial dimension Human health
well being
Lead Org. (s) within URSG GCOS, WRCP, WMO,
IGOS-P IGOS-P, IOC/GOOS EC, UNEP EC, UNEP,
FAO IGBP, EC, Sweden ESA, FAO, UNESCO UNEP,
EC UNEP, WHO, US
Need of strong support by Countries and
International organisations working with
developing countries (UNEP, FAO).
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User Involvement mechanisms through

• Build on approach already used by WMO, IGOS-P,
  GCOS, GOOS, etc, for example the WMO process
  RRR (Rolling Review of Requirements) on annual
  basis.
• involvement of standardisation organisations and
  certification bodies (e.g. ISO).
• structured and permanent dialogue between all
  stakeholders involved in information production
  and use along the chain of production of
  information and between the sectors and
  disciplines, as proposed in GMES for ensuring
  that user needs are met.

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Outreach mechanisms
Some main tools

• National websites
• brochures, CDs for those countries without easy
  web access
• ad hoc publications/newsletters for different
  stakeholders
• special sessions or exhibits on EOS(s) at key
  events, COPs, UN Commission for Sustainable
  Development, others
• Press communication strategies
• Awareness-raising actions to ensure public
  support and upward pressure towards policy makers

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• Key variables
• Data transformation into information
• Data utilisation strategy

DU
CB
AR
UR

• Users involvement
• Outreach mechanisms

• Key variables
• Data processing component
• data exchange and dissemination process

Integration needs/overlaps with the other
subgroups