G20 Initiative on Global Agricultural Monitoring Se reunieron con los Ministros de Agricultura del G20 en Buenos Aires, Mayo 2011

1. GEOSS: A Global Earth Observations System of Systems to Inform Decisions © GEO Secretariat João SOARES GEO Secretariat consultant [email_address] WMO/Geneva In support to the: G20 Global Agricultural Geo-Monitoring

2. © GEO Secretariat Environmental Challenges for the 21rst Century

4. © GEO Secretariat U.S. Department of State, Washington DC July 31, 2003 GEO, the Group on Earth Observations An Intergovernmental Organization with 87 Members and 61 Participating Organizations

5. © GEO Secretariat The Vision for GEOSS… … a world where decisions and actions are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations... Currently chaired by China, EC, South Africa and USA GEO is implementing GEOSS according to its 10 year Implementation plan established by its plenary in 2005

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7. © GEO Secretariat IKONOS QuickBird SPIN-2 SPOT 4, 5 EROS A1 Toms-EP ACRIMSAT CBERS Orbview 2, 3 Radarsat ALOS DMC A space based Babel´s tower ? Envisat Aura/Aqua/Terra Grace QuikScat Sage SeaWinds TRMM UARS Landsat 7 SORCE SeaWiFS ERBS Jason

8. GEOSS Human capital Experience + qualification Informal + formal Develop talents Deliverables Information for supporting decision-making Instutional system Networking governance Political commitment to sustained data sharing Infrastructure Spatial + in situ instrumentation Architecture + Data management + Data portals Software + tools

9. Access to Data and Information © GEO Secretariat Contributors register observation systems, data sets and services Users discover and exploit resources contributed to GEOSS

11. © GEO Secretariat Free and Open Access to Satellite Images: CBERS (China/Brazil), LANDSAT (USA) data use increased by a factor of 100+

13. time-series product from various sources of satellite data Systematic Satellite Data Acquisitions Optical SAR 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 … .. … . … … 2003 2012 … … 1991 1992 1995 … . 2003 2012 … Common Processing Forest Conversion Forest Inventory or Carbon Model Accounting Rules and International Reporting Time series consistency Is critical Verification

15. An Overview of the GEO Agriculture Monitoring initiative

17. GEO Agricultural Monitoring COP Building on existing systems

18. Agricultural Monitoring Systems Contributing to the GEO Agriculture Monitoring Task

19. UN-FAO GIEWS Provides global information on food supply and demand provides early warnings of impending food crises in individual countries

22. USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

25. Thank you! © GEO Secretariat