Designing a Global Interoperable Information Network Gilberto Câmara National Institute for Space Research, Brazil Eye on Earth Summit, Abu Dhabi, 2011
Framework for environmental information Data collection Archival Sharing Analysis Modelling Decisions Actions Communication PoliticalEconomicSocialTechnicalLegal Source: Recommendations for the Technical Design of a Global Interoperable Information Network
Framework for environmental information Data collection Archival Sharing Analysis Modelling Decisions Actions Communication PoliticalEconomicSocialTechnicalLegal How hard is to carry out this vision?
Best practices Social StandardsData clouds
Best practices Social StandardsData clouds What’s missing? What should be done first?
Data (we need a lot of it) Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia ( ) dropped from 27,000 km 2 to 6,200 km 2
Tb of data lines of code 150 man/years of software dev 200 man/years of interpreters How much it takes to survey Amazonia?
Communicating location is easy Deforestation hotspots in Amazonia
Weather source: WMO 11,000 land stations (3000 automated) 900 radiosondes, 3000 aircraft 6000 ships, 1300 buoys 5 polar, 6 geostationary satellites Communicating about data is feasible
Communicating concepts is hard Image source: WMO vulnerability? climate change? poverty?
degradation We’re bad at representing meaning deforestation? degradation? disturbance? Communicating concepts is hard
When did the Aral Sea reach the tipping point? Communicating change is very hard
Describing events and processes is very hard When did the flood occur?
© GEO Secretariat 14 A Global, Coordinated, Comprehensive and Sustained System of Observing Systems GEOSS
registry GEO Web Portal searches Offerors registers GEOSS Clearinghouse Catalogues User accesses searches references
GEOSS registry GEO Web Portal searches Offerors registers GEOSS Clearinghouse Catalogues User accesses searches references There is not a uniform, consistent way that data are registered, stored, and accessed in GEOSS (Evaluation Report, 2011)
100,000 10,000 1,500 1,000 Services Data sets Systems Growth of Discoverable Resources 10,000,000 1,000,000 Users could not find data they wanted No incentive to share source: R.Shibasaki
28,000,000+ Data sets 100,000 10, Services 1,500 1,000 Systems (Nov.)2010 Growth of Discoverable Resources 10,000,000 1,000,000 source: R.Shibasaki What happened?
28,000,000+ Data sets 100,000 10, Services 1,500 1,000 Systems (Nov.)2010 Growth of Discoverable Resources 10,000,000 1,000,000 Big space agencies loaded their metadata source: R.Shibasaki
The future: improving GEOSS with brokers source: R.Shibasaki
Data democracy = community building through knowledge hubs
Full and open access to environmental data is indispensable for global sustainable development
RDC forest surveillance service (Brazilian support thru FAO)
Data democracy needs to reach the masses! photo: Yann Arthus Bertrand