GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) – Here and Now (Okay a Peek at the Future)

IIB Meeting at ESA-ESRIN

Barbara RyanDirector, GEO Secretariat

Frascati, Italy23 February 2015

• Alignment – components, terminology, people

• Registration – to register, or not to register?

• Role of the Private Sector

• Accessibility

Key Points

• GEO Home Page

• GEOSS Portal

• Discovery and Access Broker

• Terminology – assets, resources, granules, databases, scenes, records, etc.

• Community Portals – status of paper?

Alignment

GEO Home Page

GEOSS

Portal

GEODAB

Aligning the Components

GEO Discovery & Access Broker

TerminologyTracking & Reporting

About 35 brokered data providers .. .

More than 14 Million accessible resources (mix of data collections and datasets)

.. .

Publish

Contain

More than 82 Million assets (mix of satellite scenes, raingage, streamgage records, etc.)

.. .

Resources

Registration Results

Registration Progress -- GEOSS DataCORE (Resources Pledged in Beijing)

0 50 100 150

75 76

Registered by May 2014

Not registered by May 2014

Number of pledged resources (151 in total)

No response; 57

Rescinded or out of service; 9

In process, 5

Registered after call, 5

Progress to date(after call for registration in May 2014)

Introduction of the

Brokering approach

The Role of the Private Sector(and others)

To realize a future wherein decisions and

actions, for the benefit of humankind, are

informed by coordinated, comprehensive and

sustained Earth observations and information.

GEO Vision

© GEO Secretariat

89 Participating Organizations

Commercial Sector

• Value to GEO: Access to data sources, products, tools, services and test beds; visibility for existing assets and products; expertise to further develop GEOSS.

• Value to Commercial Sector: access to richer data sets for product/service development (growing the economy) and decision-making.

A broad Commercial Sector spans the entire information value chain

Data

providers

Value-Added providers

Downstream

users

Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibilty

(The WWW is a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure)

.

Economic benefit 2011

USA Users $1.70 BInternational Users $400 MGlobal Total $2.1 B

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5000

10000

15000

20000

25000

30000

35000

40000

45000

RADARSAT Images Acquired by the Government of Canada

R1 + R2

R1 Only

ESTIMATED

Radarsat-2

Canada’s Experience

A Look to the Future

Spac

e

Themes

TimeGEOSS

GEOSS Hypercube

Spac

e

Time

Precipitation in Greece

(1946-2013)

Themes

Spac

e

Themes

Time

Global Precipitation (1946-2013)

Spac

e

Themes

Time

Land Use change in

Europe (1984-2010)

Spac

e

Themes

TimeLand Use change in

Europe (1984-2010)

Demography in Europe

(1984-2010)

Major Floods in Europe (1984-2010)

Spac

e

Time

West Africa drought observations(1995–2013)

East Africa drought

observations(2010 – 2012)

Themes

Spac

e

Time

West Africa crop prediction

(2014-2015)

ThemesWest Africa Land Use (1990-2005)

Spac

e

Time

Precipitation in Africa

(1992-2012)

Themes

Global water bodies

(1998-2005)

Spac

e

Time

Themes

Precipitation in Africa (

GCI Searches

Crops obs. Asia

(2005-2010) Global Climate

predictions (2012-2032)

Faults monitoring in South America (1980-2014)

Ecosystems mapping in Europe (1987-2010)

Major disasters in South Asia (1992-2005)

West Africa Land

Use (SB)(1990-2005)

• Alignment – components, terminology and people

• Registration – focus on results

• Engagement with the Private Sector

• Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility

Summary & Challenges

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