PA062
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Knowledge Hub for Open Science Solutions to Societal Challenges.
Session ID#: 79539
Session Description:
When applying Earth observations (EO) to address societal challenges, country needs surveys call for harmonization of best practices globally; guidance on handling big EO data; and examples of successful country use cases. However, finding EO-based solutions for decision-making currently entails combining know-how and resources from many distributed sources.
The GEO Knowledge Hub (GKH) represents a central digital archive providing access to codified knowledge, featuring replicable, open science workflows for applications using big EO data to support sustainable development. The GKH contains documentation linking: (a) research papers describing methods; (b) algorithms/cloud computing resources for processing; (c) EO datasets used (in situ, satellite, airborne, citizen science); and (d) results for verification.
The GKH is useful to a range of stakeholders, from national experts reporting on policy commitments, to individual end-users seeking practical solutions to local environmental challenges. This Session provides the opportunity to inform the community of EO applications populating the GKH.
Index Terms:
0430 Computational methods and data processing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1938 Knowledge representation and knowledge bases [INFORMATICS]
6620 Science policy [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
Primary Convener: Douglas Cripe, GEO Group on Earth Observations, Geneva, Switzerland
Conveners: Gilberto Camara, GEO Group on Earth Observations, Geneva, Switzerland, Argyro Kavvada, NASA Headquarters/ Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC, United States and Lawrence Friedl, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison: Douglas Cripe, GEO Group on Earth Observations, Geneva, Switzerland
Bringing the community to the data and the data to the community: GEOGLAM efforts to transform Earth observations into actionable information (Invited) (491703)
Alyssa K Whitcraft1, Sven Jan Bert Gilliams2, Ian Jarvis3, Pierre Defourny4, Sophie Bontemps5, Andrew Nelson6, Inbal Becker Reshef1 and Christopher Owen Justice7, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)VITO, Mol, Belgium, (3)GEO Group on Earth Observations, Geneva, Switzerland, (4)Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, (5)UCL-Geomatics, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, (6)University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (7)University of Maryland, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
