Group on Earth Observations and Global Earth Observation System of Systems Sample Clauses

Group on Earth Observations and Global Earth Observation System of Systems. As a result of the first Earth Observation Summit, the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) was established as an ad hoc group to develop a 10-year implementation plan for building a comprehensive, coordinated, and sustained Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).7 At the second 7 Declaration of the First Earth Observation Summit, July 31, 2003. Available at xxxx://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/docs/Declaration-final%000-00-00.pdf. summit in April 2004, a Framework document was approved.8 At the third summit in February 2005, XXX became a formal body with the Secretariat housed with the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva. As of May 2005, GEO had 58 member countries and 43 participating organizations. In addition to the secretariat, GEO has five subgroups: Architecture, Capacity Building, Data Utilization, International Cooperation, and User Requirements and Outreach.9 The GEOSS 10-year implementation plan10 was endorsed by 55 countries at the third summit. The 10-year implementation plan defines the purpose of GEOSS: “to achieve comprehensive, coordinated and sustained observations of the Earth system.” The plan defines the following nine societal benefit areas as the keys that define the purpose of GEOSS (emphasis added): ▪ Disasters: Reducing loss of life and property from natural and human-induced disasters ▪ Health: Understanding environmental factors affecting human health and well-being ▪ Energy: Improving management of energy resources ▪ Climate: Understanding, assessing, predicting, mitigating, and adapting to climate variability and change ▪ Water: Improving water-resource management through better understanding of the water cycle ▪ Weather: Improving weather information, forecasting, and warning ▪ Ecosystems: Improving the management and protection of terrestrial, coastal, and marine resources ▪ Agriculture: Supporting sustainable agriculture and combating desertification ▪ Biodiversity: Understanding, monitoring, and conserving biodiversity. The societal benefit areas will be addressed using existing and future monitoring systems, improving their use through end user involvement and outreach, architecture and interoperability, data sharing, research facilitation, and capacity building. GEO will use GEOSS as a means to coordinate and promote Earth observations of all kinds (in situ and remote, from monitoring to information production).
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