1. SDCG REPORT TO SIT TW 2016
Oxford, September, 2016

2. Issues First airing of Global Data Flows study
Precursor to FDA work, forest focus
Many countries, FAO, World Bank, SilvaCarbon …
Data coverage issues for attention
GFOI and SDCG strategy and operations
SDCG-10
Reading, UK
September 7th-9th 2016

3. Study Provenance and Trajectory
SDCG Work Plan – Outcome 2
Consultation with countries, intermediaries and development finance bodies
Seeking a better understanding of obstacles #
Outcome
2016
2017
2018 2
Efficient and effective global flows of data
Complete global data flow study in cooperation with USGS, ESA/EC and SDCG Exec
Implement processes and tools for efficient and effective global flows of data
Efficient and effective global flows of data for development of GFOI standard products

4. Scenarios

5. Conclusions Highlights (1/2)
Increase in satellite data volume & complexity is outstripping the capacity of the national data handing infrastructure of GFOI many countries
Introduction of L-8 & S-2 reduced # of countries able to use EO data for forest monitoring
BAU approach is considered unsustainable, and in general a move towards centralized data handling is viewed as a potential solution to make satellite-data support sustainable.

6. Conclusions Highlights (2/2)
Increased volumes and number of data sources require more effective data discovery and access tools.
Agency-backed ARD products and tools are steps in that direction to
facilitate integration of new/multiple data sources
reduce cost/burden of preprocessing to foster user uptake
assure quality of ARD products

7. Recommendations Currently divided into three groupings
Space Data Providers
Capacity Building Partners
Users and Countries
Complementary and supportive of Future Data Architecture (FDA) work

8. Rec’s – Space Data Providers
Establish and promote widely-accepted ARD descriptions and specifications;
Improved data access and data discovery tools for multi-sensor search and ARD products;
Promote community uptake of ARD, in particular to ‘data giants’ like Google and Amazon;
Interoperability between Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2;
Support pilot activities to exercise some of the fundamental and enabling elements of FDA;
Support the development of a model pilot end-to-end NFMS based on the GFOI components.

9. Rec’s – Capacity Building
CEOS should continue to develop discussions around the partnerships and geometries that will be required for success in relation to the growing emphasis on user engagement
Development finance
UN agencies
Data giants

10. Rec’s – Users and Countries
Realising the gains offered by a move towards ARD requires significant communications, promotional, sales, and capacity building efforts by CEOS.
CEOS agency governments can all help with the promotion of GFOI MGD by insisting on its adoption in all of their forest-related aid programmes.

11. Data Coverage Requests to be sent from SDCG to SIT and CEOS agencies:
JAXA to make JERS-1 mosaics available online and to continue ALOS series systematic global acquisitions
CONAE to ensure SAOCOM-1A data is freely and openly available for GFOI purposes
CNES World Heritage programme making SPOT 1-5 data available. Helpful surrogate for ground truth since 1986; fill regional gaps in Landsat historical record - particularly over Africa.
We encourage all CEOS space agencies to assist CNES in repatriation of SPOT 1-5 data to CNES to be consistently processed and readily available to the global community

12. SDCG/GFOI Operations
Need emphasis on country engagement now we have the MGD/REDDcompass
Very positive ‘GNU’ engagement in UK last week
Seeking clarity on GFOI Office and Australian funding in general
Govt Australia has funded SDCG Sec for management and operation of SDCG since its establishment at 2011 Plenary
Funding cycle for SDCG Sec ends 2016 and no prospect of renewal
Significant implications for SDCG capacity
Discussing alternatives
SDCG seeks renewal at CEOS Plenary

13. Colombia

14. Questions and Discussion…