INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR GEO-INFORMATION SCIENCE AND EARTH OBSERVATION

GEO Capacity Building survey instrument progress (2006 -

2007)

Survey instrument progress (per 01/2007) *Reported by

Chris Mannaerts (ITC)Imraan Salojee, Datong Zhao, E.Christia (GEO)

Short details

GEO CB-06-01/03 actions Initial survey (03/2006) to CB

Committee members (only) Extended survey (11/2006) to +- 500

organizations (> 60 countries) Aim:

extend Cap building information gathering from broader audience

Supply GEO with more data on CB in EO

Survey questions

Questions (similar to Survey I) on: Executing institution, agency, organization Activity type: Education &Training, Institutional,

Infrastructural Geographic target: global, regional, country.. Target theme (Societal Benefit Area) Time frame: continuous, fixed term,.. Size incl. budget: budget, funding source,.. Reported gaps, requirements Future & intended developments

Additional small questionnaire on SBA Health

Response overview

Initial mailing: 500 (valid addresses: 360 *)

Complete returns (<30 days): 87 (+- 25%)

Good world coverage: responses from 41 countries

Different sources origin as first initial survey

> 2000 new data points ..

Response per world region

11

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41

85 1

Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

South America

Australasia

Responses per world region

•Mail server address, e-mail changes, back bouncing server address, etc.

Type of capacity building activity

58.44

35.38 34.56

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ties Education & Training

Institutional

Infrastructure

Majority (58 %) education and training with or without institution building (35%) and /orinfrastructure development (34%)

-> Confirms First initial survey results

CB activities – geographic target areas

31 % of activities have global outlookA relatively stronger CB focus on Africa, Europe and Asia and surveyresponse from those regions. *Note: Large US orgs. (e.g. NOAA, USGS) included in first GEO survey

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North America

Central America

South America

North Africa

West & Central Africa

East & South Africa

West & Central Europe

South & East Europe

East & Southeast Asia

Middle East E & South Asia

Central Asia

Pacific Islands

Australasia

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Initiatives vs. Societal Benefit Areas

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Disaster

Health

Energy

Climate

Water

Weather

Ecosystem

Agriculture

Biodiversity

3 major groupings apparent:EO - Disasters EO - Climate - weather- water (& oceans) EO - Green earth & land cover

Continuity and budget size

Continuity Start / duration

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1-50k

50k-100k

100k-500k

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>1000k

do not know

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2006

2007

2008

2009

continuous

Budget (in 1000*USD)

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before 1990 1991-2000 2000-2005 >2005

before 1990

1991-2000

2000-2005

>2005

2/3 activities have long termambitions

CB Activity size relatively equally present

60% of actions> 2000 or recent

Reported CB gaps and constraints

Under further analysis: Training materials, manpower,

infrastructure, data access, etc. Merging with reported capacity building

initiatives of GEO CB Survey #1.

Initial survey on EO for Health SBA

Low response (15%), but some interesting answers and signals:

Weather/climate data – health relationships An example: Vector-borne disease monitoring using EO Link Regional climate outlooks to health

Air & water quality monitoring (using EO) and health effects / interaction E.g. harmful algae, waterborne diseases, airborne

migration.. Linking Environment & health databases using ICT and

GEO data infrastructures Water, air and soil pollution – epidemiology More “in situ” health data needed on for ‘calibration –

validation’ cycle of EO monitoring schemes