1. © GEO Secretariat GEOSS Access to Data and Climate-related Information and Services Jos é Achache Executive Director

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3. Ensure Proper Access to Data: Free and Open, Easy to Use and Coordinated

4. © GEO Secretariat Data and Products at Minimum Time delay and Minimum Cost Free of Charge or minimal Cost for Research and Education GEO Data Sharing Principles Full and Open Exchange of Data, recognizing Relevant International Instruments and National Policies

5. © GEO Secretariat Led to Free and Open Access to the LANDSAT Archive (USGS - USA)

6. © GEO Secretariat Registries, Clearinghouse and Portal Contributors register observation systems, data sets and services Users discover and exploit resources contributed to GEOSS

7. © GEO Secretariat Represents a COLOSSAL investment by GEO Members & PO in EO systems Delivers major societal benefits to USERS, such as policy makers & citizens Enables GEOSS resources to be readily discovered and accessed Appropriate interoperability Trusted (QA) data & information "Open”, in accordance with DSP

8. © GEO Secretariat GEO Portal: Gateway to Data and Services

9. © GEO Secretariat GEO Portal: Gateway to Data and Services Searching Real time Precipitation Data

10. © GEO Secretariat Access to Transverse Data Sets (e.g., Land Cover)

11. © GEO Secretariat Seasonal integrated NDVI Tailored to Applications (e.g., Phenology) Brad Reed, USGS

12. © GEO Secretariat Seasonal Variations

13. © GEO Secretariat Including In situ and Historical Data: Cherry Blossom in Kyoto Source A.Menzel

14. © GEO Secretariat Grape Harvest Dates

15. © GEO Secretariat Access to Coordinated Data Sets (e.g., Water Cycle Related)

16. © GEO Secretariat Including Space Observations

17. © GEO Secretariat Hydroweb (France)

18. © GEO Secretariat GRACE Subsurface Water Variations (USA, Germany)

19. © GEO Secretariat Atmospheric Water Vapor (NASA)

20. © GEO Secretariat Global Rainfall Map produced 4 hours after observation and updated every hour and accessible on internet as google files Global Rainfall Maps from Satellites

21. © GEO Secretariat Soil moisture – In-situ Precipitations Soil moisture from ERS scatterometer Precipitation from rain gauges

22. © GEO Secretariat Ensure Availability and Provide Access to Climate Information and Services (e.g., Agriculture, Carbon, Forests, Health, Water, Disasters…)

23. © GEO Secretariat SERVIR: One Stop Shop for Disaster Management (Central America, Africa, Himalayas)

24. © GEO Secretariat Floods and Droughts Early Warning Systems

25. © GEO Secretariat Food Security

26. © GEO Secretariat FASAL - India JECAM: Joint Experiment for Coordinated Agricultural Monitoring (and Yield Forecasting)

27. © GEO Secretariat Malaria Risk Mapping Risk Maps based on Vegetation Health (VHI), Moisture Conditions (VCI) and Thermal Conditions (TCI). All estimations from AVHRR.

28. © GEO Secretariat A global carbon monitoring system

29. © GEO Secretariat Fluxnet: A Global Network of Flux Tower Networks

30. © GEO Secretariat Ocean Carbon from Research Cruises Measuring carbon dioxide concentrations, ocean temperatures, and winds Map shows the paths of research cruises conducted as part of the World Climate Research Programme’s (WCRP) Climate Variability and Predictability project (Map by Robert Simmon, based on data from Dana Greeley, NOAA.) 30

31. © GEO Secretariat Current remote sensing missions TOVS (NOAA) – upper tropospheric CO2 AIRS (NASA) – upper trop CO2, CO and CH4 Sciamachy (ESA) CH4 CO2 and CO MOPITT (NASA) – CO IMG (JAXA) CH4 IASI (EUMETSAT) – CO2 CO, CH4

32. © GEO Secretariat Space Observations: The Future GOSAT (JAXA) Launched on 23 January 2010 OCO-2 (NASA) Launch Feb 2013

33. © GEO Secretariat Yearly fluxes 1996-2006Monthly fluxes 2006

34. © GEO Secretariat Use coordinated Earth Observations (space and in situ measurements linked to forest models) to provide information of suitable consistency, accuracy and continuity to support forest carbon Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MARV) Forest Carbon Tracking and the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI)

35. © GEO Secretariat Forest Carbon Tracking 10 National Demonstrators

36. © GEO Secretariat Satellite data acquired over Borneo Summer 2009 36 Scenes acquired June-Sept 2009

37. © GEO Secretariat In-situ Verification Sites in Borneo U.S. Department of State, Washington DC July 31, 2003 37 4 VS-Verification Sites Center coordinates BOR-1 WUR_E-Kalim/SabahN04.33E117.01 BOR-2 WUR_SW-KalimantanS01.82E111.61 BOR-3 WUR_SE-KalimantanS02.24E114.41 BOR-4 WUR_C-Kalim/SarawakN02.55E115.08 Radius 20 km

38. © GEO Secretariat U.S. Department of State, Washington DC July 31, 2003 GEO, the Group on Earth Observations An Intergovernmental Organization with 86 Members and 61 Participating Organizations

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