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

2. 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?

3. 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)

4. 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!)

5. Contributing projects: SWOS
Project key facts
4,979, 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:

6. Contributing projects: GlobWetland-Africa
Project key facts
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:

7. Contributing projects: GMW
GMW radar data and Change Maps – examples
Project key facts
, 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

8. Contributing projects: DeMo-Wetlands
Project key facts
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:

9. Implementation Plan

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

11. 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

12. 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?

13. Thank you! For further information please contact:
Adrian Strauch,
University of Bonn, Germany
Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces