Gfg2 for GEO tasks

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One of Gfg2's goals is to promote the use of GNSS within the GEO Community at a European level, and the GNSS support of GEO activities. On this page, GEO Communities of Practice (CoPs) and GEO tasks are listed, which are relevant to our community (including both GEO and GNSS experts).

GEO Communities of Practice

Name	SBAs addressed	Objectives
GEO Air Quality	Health, Agriculture, Ecosystems	A data network to: find, access, understand and merge air quality observations, emissions and models by enabling existing Data Portals, Decision and Science projects to create and use the Network
Biodiversity	Water, Health, Disasters, Climate, Weather, Energy, Ecosystems and Agriculture	Tracking individual species and populations and monitoring trends in forests and other ecosystems. Integrate masses of biological information with data and forecasts on climate change, pollution and other threats to biodiversity.
Carbon	Health, Climate, Weather, Ecosystems	Provide long-term observations required to improve the understanding of the present state and future behaviour of the global carbon cycle. Monitor and assess the effectiveness of carbon sequestration and/or emission reduction activities on global atmospheric CO₂ levels.
Coastal Zone	Disaster, Weather, Ecosystem	Coastal zone management. Provide and integrate data on terrestrial, freshwater, marine and atmospheric systems that converge in the coastal zone
Energy	Water. Weather, Climate	Support GEOSS outcomes related to the application of Earth Observation data for energies.
Forest	Climate, Ecosystem	Link existing and planned forest observation systems around the world, identify new systems where gaps currently exist, and improve access to, and use of, in-situ, aerial and satellite Earth observations.
Geohazards	Disasters	Comprehensive monitoring of geohazards and the provision of timely information on spatio-temporal characteristics, risks, and occurrence of geohazards, in support of all phases of the risk management cycle (mitigation and preparedness, early warning, response, and recovery), and as a basis for increased resilience and disaster reduction.
Global Agricultural Monitoring	Water, Weather, Climate, Human Health, Biodiversity	Monitor food production, supply and demand at the global scale and to provide early warning of serious regional food shortages. Monitor food security for at-risk regions world-wide. Identify problems in the food supply system that potentially lead to famine or other food-insecure conditions. Sustainable agricultural development, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, and poverty alleviation in developing countries.
Health and Environment	Agriculture, Water, Weather, Climate	Improving our understanding of how the environment affects human health and well-being. For example, remote-sensing observations of weather, land and ocean parameters can now be used to predict outbreaks or trends in infectious diseases such as meningitis, malaria and cholera. Such data needs to be readily available to public health workers in a format that they can use.
Water Cycle	Agriculture, Disasters, Human Health, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Climate, Energy, Weather	Gap filling existing information about water resources, integrating data sets from various monitoring systems, developing better forecasting models, and disseminating the results to a wider range of decision makers.

GEO tasks relevant to our community

Task identifier and name	SBA	Objectives
US-09-01a: Identify Critical Earth Observation Priorities for Societal Benefit Areas	All	Establish a process for identifying critical Earth observation priorities common to many of the nine GEO societal benefit areas, involving scientific and technical experts, taking account of socio-economic factors, and building on the results of existing systems’ requirements development processes.
DI-06-09: Use of Satellites for Risk Management	Disasters	Define and facilitate implementation of satellite constellations for risk management from a multi-hazard perspective. Develop dedicated software tools (based on AR-09-02a output) – to be used, in the short term, to analyze the coverage for critical observations and, in the medium-long term, to implement the user interface for products ordering/retrieval and data integration/re-processing.
HE-09-02: Monitoring and Prediction Systems for Health	Health	Support development of operational health-related applications. Monitoring atmospheric aerosols and their improved forecast in operational numerical models of the atmosphere to study the impact of aerosols on health and marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Support international initiatives such as the sand and dust storm warning.
EN-07-02: Energy Environmental Impact Monitoring	Energy	Promote the use and development of Earth observation systems for the monitoring and prediction of environmental change related to energy production and/or resource site exploitation. Develop modelling systems helping to quantify and anticipate changes to the environment and monitoring of CO₂ storage sites.
CL-09-03:Global Carbon Observation and Analysis System	Climate	Implement a global carbon observation and analysis system addressing the three components of the carbon cycle (atmosphere, land and ocean) and provide high-quality regional information on CO₂ and CH₄concentrations and emission variations. Combine observations, reanalysis and product development to develop tools for carbon tracking and storage change evaluation. Global monitoring of Greenhouse gases from space.
WA-06-02: Droughts, Floods and Water Resource Management	Water	Improve integrated water-resource management by bringing together observations, prediction, and decision-support systems and create better linkages to climate and other data. Improve forecasting methods for extreme events such as droughts, floods etc.
WE-09-01: Capacity Building for High-Impact Weather Prediction.	Weather	Improving weather information, forecasting and warning. Develop capability for numerical weather prediction in developing countries. Gap filling the observation of weather parameters, data collection over ocean areas, extend the use of dynamic sampling methods globally, improve the initialisation of forecast and increase the capacity in developing countries to deliver essential observations and use forecast products.
EC-09-01: Ecosystem Observation and Monitoring Network (GEO EcoNet)	Ecosystem	Coordinate and improve the observation, characterization and monitoring of terrestrial, freshwater, ice and oceans ecosystems in terms of acquisition and use of satellite /aerial/in-situ observation. Coordinate the collection, processing and distribution of bio-geophysical and land surface parameter data and deliver this to the global modelling communities.
AG-07-03: Global Agricultural Monitoring	Agriculture	Develop and improve a global operational agricultural monitoring system. Global mapping and monitoring of changes in distribution of cropland area and agricultural production. Development of early warning systems and develop and improve analytical tools and methods for risk assessment.
BI-07-01: Developing a Global Biodiversity Observation Network	Biodiversity	Coordinate and improve biodiversity (animals, plants, genes, etc.) observation, assessment and conservation in terms of acquisition and use of satellite, aerial and in-situ observation. Improve the quality and quantity of observation and advocate for a better understanding of trends and conservation. Capture historical and new biodiversity data.