PA13A:
Developing a Knowledge Base Linking Earth Observations to Societal Information Needs Posters

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Session ID#: 13590

Session Description:
Society today is facing unprecedented challenges of food, water and energy security; resilience to natural hazards; impacts of population growth; pandemics of infectious diseases; sustainability of ecosystem services; poverty and the development of a sustainable economy. Climate change represents an overarching and cross-cutting challenge exacerbating these issues.

Earth observations are an indispensable component towards addressing these societal challenges. The Group on Earth Observations (GEO), a global partnership of governments and organizations, envisions a future wherein decisions and actions for the benefits of human kind are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations.

This session focuses on development of an interdisciplinary knowledge base that identifies observations needed for all disciplines and is linked to user requirements such as Sustainable Development Goal monitoring frameworks, ultimately ensuring that data and information about the Earth collected through observing systems made available by the GEO community is timely, relevant, and openly discoverable and accessible.

Primary Convener:  Douglas Cripe, GEO Group on Earth Observations, Geneva, Switzerland
Conveners:  Stefano Nativi, CNR Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Prato, Italy and Hans-Peter Plag, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States
Chairs:  Douglas Cripe, GEO Group on Earth Observations, Geneva, Switzerland, Hans-Peter Plag, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States and Stefano Nativi, CNR Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Prato, Italy
OSPA Liaison:  Douglas Cripe, GEO Group on Earth Observations, Geneva, Switzerland

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1904 Community standards [INFORMATICS]
1938 Knowledge representation and knowledge bases [INFORMATICS]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A GEO Initiative to Support the Sustainable Development Goals (Invited) (126830)
Lawrence Friedl, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science, Washington, DC, United States
The Potential Benefits of Earth Observations for the Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Beyond (Invited) (185217)
Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States
From Data to Knowledge: GEOSS experience and the GEOSS Knowledge Base contribution to the GCI (146690)
Stefano Nativi1, Mattia Santoro1, Paolo Mazzetti Sr.1 and Hans-Peter Plag2, (1)CNR Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Prato, Italy, (2)Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States
Linking Earth Observations and Models to Societal Information Needs: The Case of Coastal Flooding (147656)
Benjamin Hamlington and Hans-Peter Plag, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States
A Socio-Economic and Environmental Information Needs Knowledge Base (SEE-IN KB) in Support of SDG Implementation and Monitoring (163432)
Hans-Peter Plag, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States and Shelley Jules-Plag, Old Dominion University, Engineering Management and System Engineering, Norfolk, VA, United States
Automatic Metadata Generation for Dark Data to Support Information Systems (144697)
Markus Heene1, Thorsten Buesselberg1, Dieter Schroeder1, Albert Brotzer2 and Stefano Nativi3, (1)Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Offenbach am Main, Germany, (2)ask, Darmstadt, Germany, (3)CNR Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Prato, Italy
The ConnectinGEO Observation Inventory (171009)
Mattia Santoro1, Stefano Nativi1, Simon Jirka2 and Ian McCallum3, (1)CNR Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Prato, Italy, (2)52North, Munich, Germany, (3)IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
Sen2-Agri country level demonstration for Ukraine (175070)
Andrii Kolotii1,2, Nataliia Kussul1,3, Andrii Shelestov1,3 and Mykola S. Lavreniuk1,4, (1)Space Research Institute NAS Ukraine and SSA Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, (2)The National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", Kyiv, Ukraine, (3)National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine, (4)National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", Kyiv, Ukraine
ENERGIC OD Geopan application using Virtual Hub: multi-temporal knowledge oriented information on built environment and riverbed changes to geologist community (160099)
Raffaella Brumana1, Mattia Previtali Jr.1, Paolo Mazzetti Sr.2, Branka Cuca Sr.3, Luigi Barazzetti Sr.1, Roberto Camagni1, Mattia Santoro2 and Enrico Boldrini2, (1)Politecnico di Milano, dABC (Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering), Milano, Italy, (2)CNR Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Prato, Italy, (3)CUT Cyprus University of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Lymassol, Cyprus
Guide to Sea Ice Information and Sea Ice Data Online - the Sea Ice Knowledge and Data Platform www.meereisportal.de and www.seaiceportal.de (177627)
Renate E Treffeisen1, Marcel Nicolaus1, Annekathrin Bartsch1, Bernadette Fritzsch2, Klaus Grosfeld1, Christian Haas1, Stefan Hendricks1, Georg Heygster3, Wolfgang Hiller1, Thomas Krumpen1, Christian Melsheimer4, Robert Ricker5 and Marietta Weigelt1, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany, (3)Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (4)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (5)IFREMER, Plouzané, France
From Regional Hazard Assessment to Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Support – InSAR Ground Motion Services (176309)
Thomas Lege, Andre Cahyadi Kalia, Ilona Gruenberg and Michaela Frei, BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany
Essential climatic variables estimation with satellite imagery (185596)
Andrii Kolotii1,2, Nataliia Kussul2,3, Andrii Shelestov2,3 and Mykola S. Lavreniuk2,4, (1)The National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", Kyiv, Ukraine, (2)Space Research Institute NAS Ukraine and SSA Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, (3)National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine, (4)National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", Kyiv, Ukraine

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