Potential linkages to GEOGLOWS GEO-XIII Plenary St. Petersburg, Russia Nov-2016 Adrian Strauch, Ania Grobicki, Lammert Hilarides

What? Why? How? Purpose of this talk is to answer three questions about the new GEO-Wetlands Initiative: What is GEO-Wetlands? Role of GEO-Wetlands in GEO Where are potential links to GEOGLOWS and how can we cooperate?

What is GEO-Wetlands? A new GEO Initiative focusing on global wetland monitoring and the specific needs of the wetlands community (policy & user driven) A diverse Community of Practice including academia, NGOs, national agencies, companies, space agencies & international conventions (collaborative effort) A framework for the co-design and co-production of the Global Wetlands Observation System (GWOS) (wetlands knowledge-hub)

What is GEO-Wetlands? Since 2015 different projects provide initial funding for GWOS development GlobWetland I+II (ESA) (already finished – preliminary work) Global Mangrove Watch (JAXA – ongoing) Satellite-based Wetland Observation Service (H2020 – started 2015) GlobWetland-Africa (ESA – started 2015) DeMo-Wetlands (DLR – started 2016) … GEO-Wetlands coordinates the cooperation between these projects GEO-Wetlands develops a framework for sustainably maintaining, evolving and providing the services and products developed (long-term availability!)

Contributing projects: SWOS Project key facts 4,979,189.36 EUR budget 3 years duration (starting from 1. June 2015) 15 project partners – direct user engagement Free and open data policy Provision of free of charge and open source EO toolbox Development of pilot GWOS infrastructure Development of Wetland EO Toolbox Assessment of user-needs Development of user-needs driven service cases SWOS team:

Contributing projects: GlobWetland-Africa Project key facts 1.500.000 EUR budget 3 years duration (starting from 1. November 2015) More than 25 African and international partners Free and open data policy Provision of free of charge and open source EO toolbox Regional GWOS pilot: Africa Development of Wetland EO Toolbox Capacity-building in Africa GlobWetland-Africa team:

Contributing projects: GMW GMW radar data and Change Maps – examples Project key facts 2014-2016, 2017 funding yet to be resolved 4 partners Free and open data policy Development of maps and algorithms Mahakam delta, East Kalimantan Radar based mangrove monitoring Production of global Mangrove change maps Classification software Thematic GWOS pilot: Mangroves Gulf of Paria, Venezuela Mahakam delta, East Kalimantan Indonesia GMW team: Bragantina, Brazil

Contributing projects: DeMo-Wetlands Project key facts 400.000 EUR budget 3 years duration (starting from 1. April 2016) 2 partners – cooperation with African partners Free and open data policy Development of tools and national demonstrator Demonstration of satellite- based wetland monitoring on national level in Rwanda Development of Wetland EO Tools and Products Automated wetland EO processing chain DeMo-Wetlands team:

Implementation Plan

Wetlands Portal & Knowledge Hub Maps & Products Automated satellite image processing capabilities

Role of GEO-Wetlands in GEO Marine BON (marine wetlands) Freshwater BON BON in a BOX GEO Water GEOGLOWS AQUAWATCH IGWCO GECO (GEO Ecosystems) Protected areas ECOPOTENTIAL project Common test-sites

HOW CAN WE ENSURE EFFICIENT COOPERATION? Links to GEOGLOWS Thematic links: Role of wetlands in the water cycle Human water needs vs. Ecosystems water needs Water quality Floods and droughts, surface water dynamic General: Regular communication (information exchange) Data exchange Common test-sites or projects? Joint meeting and/or events? HOW CAN WE ENSURE EFFICIENT COOPERATION?

Thank you! For further information please contact: Adrian Strauch, adrian.strauch@uni-bonn.de University of Bonn, Germany Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces