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GEOSS Implementation Current Status Giovanni Rum
GEO Secretariat
GEO European Projects Workshop
31 May – 2 June 2016
Berlin
Table of Contents
• GEO Strategic Plan 2016-2015 – Background
• Implementing the GEO vision: GEO
“deliverables”
• GEOSS Implementation status
GEOSS,
the Global Earth Observation System of Systems
“A central part of GEO’s Mission is to build the Global Earth Observation
System of Systems (GEOSS). GEOSS is a set of coordinated,
independent Earth observation, information and processing systems ...
GEOSS links these systems …. It facilitates the sharing of
environmental data and information collected from the large array of
observing systems contributed by countries and organizations within
GEO. Further, GEOSS ensures that these data are accessible, of
identified quality and provenance, and interoperable to support the
development of tools and the delivery of information services. Thus,
GEOSS increases our understanding of Earth processes and enhances
predictive capabilities that underpin sound decision-making” (*) in all
societal Benefit Areas.
(*) from the “GEO Strategic Plan 2016-2025: Implementing GEOSS” part A page 6
GEO Strategic Plan 2016-2025: what deliverables?
GEO Vision
Overall
deliverables
Strategic
Objectives
Core
Functions
“The vision for GEO is to realize a future wherein decisions and
actions for the benefit of humankind are informed via coordinated,
comprehensive and sustained Earth Observations and information”.
1. Enabling elements: GEOSS (access to Data, information, Knowledge,
tools), User needs and observational gaps, Capacity Building
2. Demonstrating EO key role: Flagships/Initiatives/Community Activities
3. Creating and keeping awareness: policy relevance, “buy-in” from
decision-makers, user engagement, communication & outreach,
strengthening the GEO Community
Advocate. Engage. Deliver
1. Identifying user needs and addressing gaps in the information
chain
2. Sustaining foundational observations and data
3. Fostering partnerships and mobilize resources
4. Advancing GEOSS and best practice in data management and
sharing
5. Implementing sustained global and regional services
6. Cultivating awareness, building capacity and promoting
innovation
GEO Work Programme logic
SBA’s Process
•User needs
•Observation
requirements
•Knowledge
Development
Providers
Coordination
Data & info
generation
GCI
Operations
Discovery
and Access
Enabling elements (Data
Sharing & Mgmt, RF Protection)
Community Activities GEO Initiatives and Flagships Products &
Services
Capacity Building Coordination
Capacity Building
Policy Mandate
GCI
Development
GEONETCast,
Communication
Networks
GEOSS
Communication and Engagement Outreach
Operations
Foundational
Tasks
3
2 1
MEMBERS AND PO’S
OBSERVATION AND INFORMATION
SYSTEMS
Foundational Tasks GD-03, GD-04, GD-05, GD-06, GD-
08, GD-09, GD-11
GEOSS Component 1
From Observations to Decisions (through R&D)
Atmosphere GAW Land Freshwater Coast Ocean GOOS Arctic etc.
Climate GCOS Weather Carbon Energy Ecosystems etc.
Observation Domains
Observation Themes /Global Systems
USERS - Societal Benefit Areas
Satellites In situ Aircraft
Observation Instruments
Decision Making tools
R&D IPCC ? Future Earth? Earth models Etc.
Earth Science
From Observations instruments to Global Systems
Atmosphere GAW Land Freshwater Coast Ocean GOOS Arctic etc.
Climate GCOS Weather Carbon Energy Ecosystems etc.
Observation Domains
Observation Themes /Global Systems
Satellites In situ Aircraft
Observation Instruments
Requirements
Data and information
Observation systems space and “in situ”
In the System of Systems perspective, what’s the GEO Value added ?
•Rolling inventory of existing satellites/networks and plans for their “densification” and improvement
•Ensuring linkages with the broad User Community and provide, through the user needs process, clear observational requirements
•Facilitating coordination through specific mechanisms (i.e at regional level) and through specific initiatives.
•Advocacy for systems continuity
Observation Systems: GD-05 and GD-06
• GD-05 - GEOSS satellite Earth Observation Resources, coordinated by CEOS, and GD -06 - GEOSS non-space based (“in-situ”) Earth Observation Resources have the same end objective: Ensure availability of coordinated observations that are needed.
• Include the actions to ensure observational gaps closure and continuity of data.
• Complementary to activities focused on formalizing user requirements and providing data in support of specific activities.
GD05 Space-based Observation on going activities
Space Data Coordination
WG on Disaster GEO-DARMA
WG on Climate
WGISS/WGCV/WGCapD GCI, Data Management, CB
Virtual Constellations SBA requirements
Future data architecture GEOSS development Non-Meteorological
Applications for
Geostationary Satellites SBA requirements
GD06 In-Situ Observations Some examples
ARGOS Buoy Networks GTN-H
GAW
Global Coordinations
Regional/National/Thematic Efforts
Emerging Technologies /Activities
Drones Citizen Sensing Marine Observatory
Copernicus In Situ USEPA Airnow CEOP reference sites
An In Situ interim Report in 2016
Proposed contents:
1. Introduction (Current In Situ definition)
2. Activities in 1-2 continents
3. Activities in 2-3 SBAs
4. Issues identified for the needs of global coordination
• sustainability of existing measurements
• investigating new in situ measurements
• Emerging techniques and new approaches
• Moving from research to sustained long-term operations
• ………………………………………
5. Recommandations and Conclusion including next steps
GD-03 - Global Observing and Information Systems
• These Global Systems are key components of a System of Systems like GEOSS.
• Their definition is definitely user-driven and they constitute, for a number of user communities, the current and potential delivery mechanism
• The “user needs process” (GD-08) is expected to contribute, from a GEO perspective, to a rationalization of the overall picture
BUT
• The landscape is still complex, overlaps and gaps are still there, there are a lot of actors to work with
• The task provides various coordination opportunities in order to:
–Review and improve the current situation
–Support existing and planned Systems and implement new ones, where necessary
–Encourage integration and linkage among different systems
–Facilitate and foster space and in situ integration
GD-03 - Global Observing and Information Systems
• The relevant process is under definition (a small Group met beginning of May and a preliminary report is expected by mid-June)
• The process will be kept as simple as feasible and will built on similar process being run at different levels
• It is planned to activate the process for two SBAs in the second half of 2016.
GD-08 - Identifying user needs and addressing gaps in the information chain
GD04 - GEONETCast
Challenges for the future
• Improve GEONETCast Link with the GCI
• Improve GEONETCast data volumes and coverage (Pacific Ocean)
• Ensure data services to GEO Community Activities, Initiatives and
Flagships
2713 users
301 users
3054 users
150 users
GD11- Advancing Communication Networks
Task Objectives
• Improve communication resources available to ensure wider and
sustainable access to and use of EO data and information.
• Assess GEOSS Cloud Service Requirements
• Support AfriGEOSS to improve data dissemination to/from Africa
Initial Findings and way forward
Focus on improvements of existing infrastructure
– Better utilize R&D networks to improve global connectivity.
– Follow WMO Expert Team on Telecommunications Infrastructure
ET-CTS Cloud Pilot Project
– Promote collaborations between AfriGEOSS, African Research and
Education Networks and local EUMETSAT and WMO contacts.
THE GEOSS COMMON
INFRASTRUCTURE (GCI)
FOUNDATIONAL TASKS GD-02 & GD-07
GEOSS Component 2
The GCI today
Private sector providers
…
GEOSS
Portal
GEO
Website
Discovery and
Access Broker
(DAB)
Japan
USA
Canada
South Africa
Australia Brazil
Germa
ny
Russia
Chile Fran
ce
Italy
… more than 100 public providers…
Satellites
Cryosphere
Energy
Disasters
Health
Biodiversity
Inte
rnat
ion
al P
rovi
der
s R
egio
nal
& N
atio
nal
Pro
vid
ers
Environment
Climate/Weat
her
Ocean
Geology/Soil
Spain
New
Zealand
Norway
Water
Switzerland
China
Africa
GCI has doubled its n. of queries over last year
GEOSS Assets and GCI Usage over time
First half of 2016
More than 3 Million queries
The GCI today
• GEO started in 2016 a systematic process to implement
new GCI capabilities, starting from a major revision of the
relevant GCI “User requirements”, presented at the GEO
Work Programme Symposium (2-4 May 2016)
• Basic requirement: the GCI should allow actual access to
free and open resources
• User needs grouped in
–Structuring user access: from customized search to pre-
defined sets of resources addressing thematic areas (in
principle the GEO SBAs) and geographical areas
–Performance parameters of the Portal, such as Multi-
criteria search, single sign-on, saving prevoius searches
–On-line tools for resources visualization and mash-up
Implementing new GCI capabilities
The GCI we want
Search Discovery Visualization Online tools
Actual Access
FUNCTIONS
ACCESSIBLE RESOURCES
Data Information Knowledge
Structured access
Starting point for user access
The GCI we have now
GCI User Requirements Functionalities Overview
Functionalities described in the GCI User Requirements Document Reference to the document
How to structure User Access 4.1
Multi-criteria search: Spatial/temporal/thematic.. 4.2.1
Incremental search/filter 4.2.2
Informative and efficient search output 4.2.3
Storing previous searches 4.2.4
RSS Feeds 4.2.5
Data accessibility: format of accessible data 4.3
Single Sign On: 4.4
Data visualization extent bigger 4.5
Data visualization - footprint & summary metadata 4.5
Data visualization tools: zoom, pan, info 4.5
Mash Ups 4.6.1 Advanced web applications 4.6.2
Data quality & accessibility monitoring tools 4.8
User data request interface 4.9.1
GCI user experience 4.9.2
GCI Statistics requirements 4.10.2 Others…your inputs!
GCI User Requirements Review http://www.earthobservations.org/geoss.php
Principles and guidelines
FOUNDATIONAL TASKS GD-01 & GD-07
GEOSS Component 3
Data Sharing: the backbone of GEO
• Promoting and enabling data sharing is one of GEO’s significant achievements and a prerequisite for building a stronger GEOSS.
• Data sharing is the fundamental enabler for global, regional and national progress towards addressing global societal challenges.
• The Data Sharing Working Group (DSWG) has played a key role to date in building consensus on data sharing guidelines and implementation plans.
• Further advocacy of data sharing implementation and the articulation of evidence are necessary to achieve these objectives.
First GEO Decade 2005-15: Achievements
• Since 2010 Data CORE. The GEOSS Data Collection of Open Resources for Everyone: a pool of “tagged” datasets with full, open & unrestricted access at no more than the cost of reproduction and distribution.
• 2013 - GEOSS Data Quality Guidelines, endorsed by GEO-X Plenary, Geneva, 2014
• 2012 & 2014 – Two versions of a white paper on legal interoperability, “Legal options for the exchange of data through the GEOSS Data-CORE”
• 2014-2015 GEOSS Data Management Principles and draft Implementation Guidelines . Discoverability, accessibility, usability, preservation, curation
Revised GEOSS Data Sharing Principles (Endorsed by GEO-XII Plenary November 2015)
Data, metadata and products will be shared as Open Data by default, by making them available as part of the GEOSS Data Collection of
Open Resources for Everyone (Data-CORE) without charge or restrictions on reuse, subject to the conditions of registration and
attribution when the data are reused;.
Where international instruments, national policies or legislation preclude the sharing of data as Open Data, data should be made available with minimal restrictions on use and at no more than the
cost of reproduction and distribution
All shared data, products and metadata will be made available with minimum time delay.
2nd GEO Decade 2016-25
• Data Sharing remains a fundamental GEO activity: promote, monitor (data availability & usability), analyze (impacts, benefits, SDGs), report (on implementation), refine and update (principles and guidelines, including implications from new data sources)
• 2016 Priorities
– Draft revised Implementation Guidelines on the GEOSS Data Sharing Principles.
– Start full implementation of Data Management Guidelines (such as data certification)
