Transcript GEOSS - World Meteorological Organization

GEOSS
Overview and Progress
WMO TECO-WIS
6-8 November 2006
Korea
Datong Zhao
GEO Secretariat
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Contents
• GEO and GEOSS Overview
• GEOSS 10Y Implementation Plan
• GEO Work Plan:
2006 WP Progress
2007-2009 WP Development
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The Earth is a complex
system of systems…
…requiring data from many
observation systems
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GEO and GEOSS
GEO The Group on Earth Observations is an
intergovernmental organization of 66 member countries, the
European Commission and 43 Participating Organizations
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GEO and GEOSS
GEOSS: A Global, Coordinated, Comprehensive and Sustained
System of Observing Systems
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GEO and GEOSS
Disasters
Reducing loss of life and
property from natural
and human induced
disasters.
Improving management of
energy resources.
Health
Energy
Understanding environmental
factors affecting human
health and well being.
Biodiversity
Weather
Understanding, monitoring
and conserving biodiversity.
Improving weather information,
forecasting and warning.
Climate
Understanding, predicting,
mitigating and adapting to
climate variability
and change.
Agriculture
Water
Supporting sustainable
agriculture and combating
desertification.
Improving water resource
management through better
understanding of
Improving the management
the water cycle.
and protection of terrestrial,
coastal and
marine ecosystems.
Ecosystems
GEOSS will serve 9 Societal Benefit Areas
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GEO and GEOSS
Organization Structure
EOS Summit: Minister Level
Plenary
Executive Committee
Committees and Working Groups
Secretariat
GEO Secretariat
established in
Geneva
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GEO and GEOSS
Secretariat
Structure
Secretariat Director
José Achache
Administrative Assistant
Chloé Tiberghien (Acting)
Programme Manager
Executive Officer
Natasha Brutsch
Peter Colohan
Secretary / Clerk
Contractor
Lourdes Briones
Hermen Westerbeeke
Eleni Christia
Senior Programme Officers
Antti Herlevi
Osamu Ochiai
Michael Rast
Giovanni Rum
Senior Scientific Experts
Brendan Kelly
AlexiaMassacand
Douglas Muchoney
Imraan Saloojee
Datong Zhao
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GEO and GEOSS
Distribution of Responsibilities
1) Societal Benefit Areas:
Disasters
Giovanni Rum
Health
Brendan Kelly
Energy
Alexia Massacand
Water
Antti Herlevi
Climate
Alexia Massacand
Weather
Datong Zhao
Agriculture
Michael Rast
Biodiversity
Douglas Muchoney
Ecosystems
Douglas Muchoney
2) Transverse areas:
Architecture
Osamu Ochiai
Data
Michael Rast
Capacity Building
Imraan Saloojee
Outreach
Peter Colohan
Users
Brendan Kelly
3) Committees and Working Group:
Architecture and Data
Osamu Ochiai and Michael Rast
Science and Technology
Alexia Massacand and Douglas Muchoney
User Interface
Antti Herlevi and Brendan Kelly
Capacity Building
Imraan Saloojee and Datong Zhao
Tsunami
Giovanni Rum
4) CEOS SIT liaison
Giovanni Rum and Osamu Ochiai
5) GEO Net Cast Support
Datong Zhao and Giovanni Rum
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GEO and GEOSS
What is different about GEO?
- Added Value
- Global
- Cross-cutting
- High-level & Political
Any Single Problem Requires Many Data Sets
A Single Data Set Will Serve Many Communities
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GEO and GEOSS
GEO will Foster Interdisciplinary Developments
Addressing Cross-cutting Issues, Linking Local
to Global
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GEO and GEOSS
Cooperation and Coordination
Tasks of diverse SBAs under GEO are
closely connected with WEATHER task
Connecting Systems
Access to WEATHER data for
other societal benefit areas
are facilitated and supported
Connecting People
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Cross Cutting Issues
Wind Energy and Weather Observation and Forecasting
Multi-disciplinary and cross-cutting areas
Research,
consultancy
and service
Met. & ocean
observing and
forecasting
service
Planning and
financing
Wind
Energy
Community
Wind turbine
and farm
Industry
Power
Utilities
Climate
Weather
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Energy
Environment
Health
GEO and GEOSS
GEO: A Voluntary Process
• The Success of GEO will Depend
on the Goodwill of its Members
and Participating Organizations
• This Process Warrants that
GEOSS Components are
Delivered in a Short Time
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GEO: A User-driven Process
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Improve and Coordinate Observation Systems
Provide Easier & More Open Data Access
Foster Use through Science and Applications
… to answer Society’s need for
informed decision making
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GEOSS 10Y
Implementation Plan
To Understand Trends, Forecast Changes and
Support Informed Decisions
Functional Components:
* Address identified common
user requirements
* Acquire observational data
* Process data into useful
products
* Exchange, disseminate, and
archive shared data
* Monitor performance against
the defined requirements and
intended benefits
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GEOSS 10Y
Implementation Plan
Main Technical Approach:
* Observations and Modelling
* Data management and data
sharing
* Architecture and
interoperability
* Research facilitation
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GEOSS 10Y
Implementation Plan
GEOSS Architecture
• GEOSS Architecture will
Provide Systems
Interoperability and
Easier and More Open
Data Access
• Open for user
requirements defined
within GEO data
collection, processing,
exchange and
dissemination
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GEOSS 10Y
Implementation Plan
There is a Need to Share all Earth Observation Data in
Standard Interoperable Formats
Earth Observation Web Portal and Clearinghouse
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Define a model prototype
system for access to all
Earth observation data
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Strategic and tactical
guidance on how to
converge disparate systems
to a higher degree of
interoperability under
GEOSS, and contribute data
to the clearinghouse.
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Solving the
Tower of Babel problem
GEOSS 10Y
Implementation Plan
GEOSS Architecture:
Interoperability Arrangements
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Technical Specifications for
Collecting, Processing, Storing,
and Disseminating Data and
Products
Based on Non-proprietary
Standards
Defining only how System
Components Should Interface to
be Contributed to GEOSS
“What few things must be the same
so that everything else can be different”
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GEOSS 10Y
Implementation Plan
GEO Web Portal and Clearinghouse:
Provide Easier and More Open Data Access
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Defining Standards
for Quality
Assurance of
Derived Products
Providing Online
Calibration and
Validation
Providing Tools
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GEOSS 10Y
Implementation Plan
GEO Data Sharing Principles
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Full and open exchange of data,
metadata, and products shared
within GEOSS, recognizing
relevant international
instruments and national policies
and legislation
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Data available with minimum
time delay and at minimum cost
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Free of charge or at no more than
the cost of reproduction for
education and research use
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GEOSS 10Y
Implementation Plan
GEONETCast System Overview: Cost-effective and User Friendly
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GEOSS 10Y
Implementation Plan
GEONETCast: Global Coverage and
Data from Diverse Societal Benefit Area
• Provide easy access to as much data and as
many people as possible
• Disseminate space-based, air-borne and in
situ data, metadata and products to diverse
users
Contributors
WMO
EUMETSAT
NOAA
CMA, Others
Global Coverage (Proposed)
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GEOSS 10Y
Implementation Plan
The Future of Earth Observation?
1964 Vision
2004 Reality
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GEOSS 10Y
Implementation Plan
Covering the Last Mile is the Greatest Challenge
To Provide the Right Information, in the Right Place,
at the Right Time, to the Right People to Make the
Right Decisions.
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06 WP Progress
2006 Work Plan and task sheets have been approved as a
living document in 5th Executive Committee April 11th.
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2006 Work Plan Agreed at GEO-II Plenary - Dec 2005,
formally accepted at ExCom 5 - April 2006
91 Tasks detailed for fulfilling GEOSS two-year targets
Over 500 experts from 27 GEO Members and 32
Participating Organizations, as well as 28 external
contributing organizations signed up and mobilized for
task implementation
Secretariat Quarterly Report
Annual Report of GEOSS Progress
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06 WP Progress
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Based on the quarterly update of Task sheets and direct
interactions between the Secretariat Experts and the
implementing teams, a preliminary assessment shows
significant progress. Considering the fact that this plan
was formally accepted in April, the amount of work
produced thus far is outstanding.
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In particular, it appears likely that the three basic elements
of the GEOSS architecture, namely the definition of
interoperability arrangements, the Web portal and its
associated clearinghouse, will be very advanced, if not
completed, by the end of the year and become operational
in the course of next year.
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Annual Report of GEOSS Progress
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07-09 WP Development
Overview of 07-09 WP Concept
Task Convergence
• To bring multiple disciplines to activities organized within a task;
• To facilitate the merger of task activities where appropriate;
• To ensure ongoing, interdisciplinary linkages between related but separate
tasks.
New Proposals
• To ensure completion of the two-year targets, as well as initiation of
activities to meet the six and ten-year targets;
• To provide opportunity for new ideas to complement and refine the existing
tasks and for new groups and communities to join GEO and contribute to
GEOSS implementation.
Priority or Longer-Term Objectives
• 06 WP with 91 specific tasks has broad goals of 9 societal benefit areas.
GEO II decided to develop work plan on a multi-year time scale in future;
• With emphasis on convergence and cross-disciplinary activities within and
among tasks.
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07-09 WP Development
Architecture: 1continuing+4 new
AR-07-01: Interoperability arrangements for GEOSS
Interoperability arrangements address the core architectural
principles. They are useful guidelines and tools to support the
establishment of GEOSS. To ensure the appropriate design of
GEOSS reference and functional architecture, system of
systems engineering activities will be included.
AR-07-02:Interface Implementation for GEOSS
The objective is to facilitate the implementation of information
system interfaces. The primary outcome will be to solicit an
official GEOSS Web Portal and Clearinghouse search facility so
as to access GEOSS components and develop services
accessible through GEOSS interoperability arrangement to
support the GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas.
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07-09 WP Development
AR-07-04: GEOSS components commitment
A high-level new task
In order to respond and support commitment of information
systems and observing systems to GEOSS, a process including
agreement to accept interoperability specifications will be
established. In addition, specific initial commitments of
contributed systems and other components are advocated.
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07-09 WP Development
Data Management: 6 continuing+6 new
Data management issues such as data, metadata and
products harmonisation, data integration and analysis are
specially addressed, including coordination of data
management approaches that encompass a broad
perspective of the observation data life cycle, from input
through processing, achieving, and dissemination, including
reprocessing, analysis and visualization of large volumes and
diverse type of data.
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07-09 WP Development
The Expected Role of WIS
In the implementation of GEOSS, access to meteorological
data for the diverse societal benefit areas will be
facilitated. With WIS, all essential data, as defined in WMO
Resolution 40 (Cg-XII) will be made available through the
GEOSS interoperable arrangements to serve the needs of
the diverse societal benefit areas under GEO.
Overarching WIS for all weather, water, climate data and
other related constituents as one of major systems of
GEOSS is a WMO contribution to the GEOSS.
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07-09 WP Development
WIS: GEOSS Component Commitment (TBD by GEO-III)
WIS, as an important contribution of WMO to GEOSS, is the first
commitment of GEOSS component. IGDDS is a component of WIS.
Recognizing “GEOSS component commitment" as a high level
task, a new task AR-07-04 "GEOSS component commitment“ is
proposed in the draft 07-09 WP Version 3 for GEO-III approving.
WIS and other GEOSS component can be committed through this
task.
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For more information
• GEOSS 10Year Implementation Plan and
Reference Document:
www.earthobservations.org
• GEO-III (28-29 November 2006) Document
(Doc.11 07-09 Work Plan):
ftp://ftp.wmo.int/projects/GEO/GEO-III
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Thanks for Attention
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