ÛÏEuroGEOSS, advancing the vision of GEOSSÛ is the title of a EuroGEOSS conference in Madrid, Spain, from Jan. 25-27, 2012. The event will focus on facilitating and demonstrating multi-disciplinary solutions to environmental issues facing humanity.
A new video describes the role of the GEOSS Common Infrastructure in supporting policy and research related to biodiversity. Developed by the EuroGEOSS Project, the 8-minute video shows an example of using global data and models available on the web to identify unique African habitats that are in need of protection.
A EuroGeoss Web Seminar on “The Earth’s Environment, Observations and Benefits” will focus on the benefits of improved decision-making on local and global scales. The event will last about an hour, with time for questions at the end. It will be presented by Steffen Fritz, Sabine Fuss and Ian McCallum.
A workshop on the socio-economic benefits of GEO-GEOSS is planned for July 11-13 at the Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy. The purpose of the workshop is to identify a program of activities to undertake during 2011-14 to support the GEO 10-year implementation plan and an assessment of benefits that can be achieved.
The first step in making sense of the processes and events that impact the Earth is to observe and analyze them. The next step is to share those observations and analyses with your peers in the context of a shared infrastructure. Today, however, there are dozens of such shared infrastructures, each with its own set of policies, terms and protocols. How can all this information be shared?
What can satellite-based Earth Observation do for the Americas? The possibilities are endless. From mitigating disaster outcomes in earthquake-prone states like Haiti to managing agriculture in Brazil to observing algal blooms off the coast of Mexico, GEOSS Americas is already having a major positive impact.
The first Austrian GEO/GEOSS workshop on 25 November 2010 in Vienna was organized by the Austrian GEO Secretariat and hosted by the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) to inform about and promote the GEOSS process.
Austria formally joined the Group on Earth Observation in 2009, having participated as an observer since 2005, and actively contributes to and supports the establishment of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems. But Austria has been engaged in space for many decades, primarily in Earth observation, and can trace its meteorological history to establishment of an International Meteorological Organization (IMO) that was agreed at the International Meteorological Conference in Vienna in September 1873.This article thoroughly explores this expansive, dynamic perspective.
Lena HÌ_ll Eriksson, head of the Swedish delegation to GEO and Director General of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, on behalf of the Swedish Minister for the Environment, Andreas Carlgren, spoke eloquently in support of the Group on Earth Observation and GEOSS on the final day of the GEO Beijing Ministerial Summit, 5 November 2010.
The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) and the GEO Secretariat invite you to participate to the Training on Registering Resources with GEOSS that will be held on 8 September, via WEBEX.
