1. Item 12: Data Democracy 2009 Progress Pakorn Apaphant November 4 th, 2009 1 The 23 rd CEOS Plenary, Phuket, Thailand I November 3-5, 2009

2. Data Democracy CEOS encourages members to share capability to the users in developing countries – Accessing datasets, software packages, dissemination models, and capacity building. One of the 2009 CEOS’ Priorities Plan/Goal – Continue to support Data Democracy activities – Expanding the program to developing countries in Asia, especially in the areas of software/tools and capacity building. – A seminar to introduce Data Democracy Program to Asian members – Coordinating and seeking for support from member agencies and Working Groups The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20092

3. 2009 CEOS Work Plan WP7000: DATA DEMOCRACY FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES – WP7100: Asian Data Democracy Seminar – WP7200 Asian engagement in data democracy – WP7300 GEO issued a call for Proposals “Earth Observations in Decision Support” The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20093

4. Completed Actions A Data Democracy seminar – Bangkok, Thailand, June 25-26, 2009 – To introduce the Program to CEOS members in Asia Surveying form to users in SE Asia – To seek what they need – Received responses from Lao, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20094

5. Users’ Requirements The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20095 Data Requirement

6. Users’ Requirements Model/software for Disaster Management – Flood – Landslide – Forest Fire/Deforestation – Drought Software for value added product generation – DEM Generation – Ortho-rectified images The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20096

7. Users’ Requirements Training Requirement – Climate Change Carbon Tracking Green House Gas Monitoring Sea level rise – Natural Disasters Assessment of Disaster Impacted Area Flood Monitoring Land Slide Monitoring – Forest Application Forest Fire Monitoring Forest Cover Monitoring The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20097

8. Completed Actions Encouraged members and Working Groups, with great support from SIT, to contribute to the program Support from – CSIR, GISTDA, INPE, JAXA, NASA, and USGS – WGISS, WGCV, and WGEdu The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20098

9. 2009 Deliverables: Data Access Free data access for the African Monitoring of Environment for Sustainable Development (AMESD) Project Free/open access for CBERS (from INPE’s ground station), USGS LANDSAT, and NASA-instrument data Consolidation of the CBERS for Africa initiative in Aswan (Egypt) and Maspalomas (Canary Islands, Spain) Free data access for disaster management in South east Asia (supported by Sentinel Asia) The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20099

10. Web-Enabled Imagery – Download Statistics Daily Average = 53 scenes for best year of sales (2001) Daily Average = 3,125 scenes of web-enabled data delivered Over 2.4 million images available today Seven fold increase in scientific and educational users Data delivered to 180 countries User shift to multi-year scenes at same location Highly favorable user response Exceeded 1 Million scenes delivered on August 16, 2009 Total Landsat Scenes Delivered Since October 1, 2008 Cumulative Scenes Delivered (Web-enabled) Cumulative Scenes Delivered (Sales) 10

11. Aerial Photography AHAP medium resolution (Over Alaska) NHAP medium resolution U.S. Antarctic Indexes – medium resolution single frames NAPP medium resolution DOQ USGS medium resolution mapping photos NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Composites Orbital Segments Digital Elevation SRTM DEM/NED Digital Line Graphs DLG 1:100k DLG Large Scale Digital Maps DRG National Atlas Global Land Survey GLS 2000 GLS 2005 Landsat Archive All Landsat ETM+, TM, and MSS (Distributed by Landsat Project) Landsat Decadal Orthorectified Data Sets ETM+ (1999-2003) ETM+ Pan (1999-2003) TM (1985-1996) TM and ETM+ Pan Mosaics MSS (1972-1987) Landsat Image Gallery Earth as Art Earth as Art2 Lewis and Clark Landsat Orthorectified State Mosaics Landsat Science LIMA Antarctica ETM+ MRLC/MTBS Radiance MRLC/MTBS Reflectance NALC Triplicates SLC-off L1T Std L1T Sys ETM+ (1999-2003) NASA Earth Observing System MODIS ASTER (Distributed by Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center) RADAR SIR-C Processed data Free Downloadable Data Sets Managed by the USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation and Research

12. 2009 Deliverables: Software Package A Data Democracy disc (Fundisa Disc) to South African and South African Development Community (SADC) Universities with up-to-date geospatial raster and vector data and open source software tools An Open Source GIS software developed by South Africa for South East Asia Free GIS and Valued Added Data software developed by Brazil Data democracy Program will also offer some training courses to facilitate users in using the software packages. The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 200912

13. 2009 Deliverables: Capacity Building A Training Program on the utilisation of the data for the African Monitoring of Environment for Sustainable Development (AMESD) Project A Training Program for Data Democracy disc (Fundisa Disc) to South African and South African Development Community (SADC) Universities A GIS training course packaged with open source software for use at secondary school level in South Africa Training material and training programs (face to face and e- learning) for African end-users of CBERS images. A plan for training program in June 2010 for users in South East Asia on Data Access tools and Natural Disaster Management. The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 200913

14. Coordination with GEO Proposals to GEO – Responded to GEO CFP for EO for Decision Support Projects A Concept Proposal was submitted on July 3 Full proposal to be submitted in January 2010 – Data Democracy Program is proposed as a new task in a current GEO WP (July 3) Being considered for approval in GEO VI Plenary

15. Continuing activities Nov 2009 CEOS -to lead the GEO task on Data Democracy, if approved 2010 CEOS to work on the EO for Decision Support Project, if approved Jan 2010 Begin to set up a Portal for Data Access June 2010 CEOS Data Democracy Training courses for users in SE Asia, Thailand The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 200915