Building GEOSS Trying to communicate the vision and a coherent work plan

Building GEOSSTrying to communicate the vision and a coherent work plan

GEOSS

Human capitalExperience + qualification

Informal + formalDevelop talents

Deliverables, Products, models

Information for decision-making

Instutional systemNetworking

National GEOsRegional GEOs

GFOI, GEO Africa

InfrastructureSpatial + in situ instrumentation

Architecture + Data management + Data portalsSoftware + tools

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GFOI, GEO Africa,GIS Africa, GAMI…

The horizontal dimension is key for developing countries

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The vertical dimension is also vital to everyone

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How could one just imagine earth observations as it stands nowadays

without RS satellites ?

What would be the added value of GEOSS without informed decision-making?

Human capital

• For developing countries the horizontal dimension plays the most important role; – empower human capacity– understand needs and requirements– continuous training and exchanging of experience

with stable/advanced institutions (networking), access to resources,

– serving the decision-making process• All the building blocks should aim at developing

human capital – HC (CBC+R&D+UIC) + Infra + IC

Institutional capital

• building and maintaining institutional capacity is imperative;

– sustainability and leveraging of funds, good management practices, commitment to sustain institutions

– networking at national, regional and global levels

• All the building blocks should aim at developing institutional capital: IC + CBC + ADC+ R&D + UIC

The infrastructure

• Sustain and develop space-based in in situ data acquisition systems and networks, develop and implement data sharing, data transfer facilities, databases and data management systems– Require commitments from state members owning

engines and data to share– Require building capacity in the user end

• All the building blocks should aim at developing infrastructure – ADC + HC (CB+R&D+UIC)+ IC.

inform

share

observe essential for buildingGEOSS

realizing the vision

The deliverables

Informed decisions in all SBAs are the added value. They are the “final deliverables” of GEOSS.

The building blocks must focus on the deliverables for structuring the work plan.

Natural Hazards

Health

Energy

ClimateAgriculture

Ecosystems

The chalenge

• Real understanding across the GEO community of the vision of an integrated System of Systems, where all the components require building capacity.

• Structure the work plan with the focus on the deliverables of GEOSS

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GFOI, GEO Africa



Could we structure the WP following these 4 components logic?

• HC “block” - based on users needs tasks on training on good practices with EO data, R&D on the development of tools and models for decision-making

• Architecture “block” – tasks on data availability but

also on empowering people and institutions (the end users), user requirements and R&D components

• IC “block” – tasks on networking and building and/or sustaining national and regional GEO capacities (ex. GFOI, Africa GIS, Africa GEO, GAMI…)

• The deliverables “block” should care about the GEOSS vision, i.e., find a management strategy to make sure observation and sharing is accomplished, and tools and models are available and used for decision-making.

Three Phases of Globalization

1. From 1492 (Colombo) to 1800 new world, imperialism, physical strength

2. 1800 to 2000 -> big international corporations, industrial revolution, transportInfrastructure, communications

3. From 2000 – networks, online collaboration,more and more agents

Obrigado !

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Building GEOSS Trying to communicate the vision and a coherent work plan