PA23A:
Earth Observation Applications in Support of Global Policy Frameworks I


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Session ID#: 57721

Session Description:
Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including ending poverty and hunger in all their forms, requires a holistic approach in order to comprehensively tackle the threats posed by climate change as well as natural and man-made hazards. The effective use of Earth observations and geospatial information is essential to help countries monitor, measure, and report progress on global policy frameworks, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the Paris Climate Agreement. This session focuses on sharing use cases of successful Earth observation applications that illustrate an interconnected approach to achieve gains across sustainable development, disaster risk reduction, and climate action including: Earth observation methods, products, tools, and technologies in support of global reporting on, and national implementation of, the aforementioned frameworks; and opportunities for further action, including scaling of successful methods, to promote a sustainable, climate resilient, and risk informed future.
Primary Convener:  Argyro Kavvada, NASA Headquarters, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, United States
Conveners:  Douglas Cripe, GEO Group on Earth Observations, Geneva, Switzerland, Lawrence Friedl, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States and Stephanie Schollaert Uz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Argyro Kavvada, NASA Headquarters, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, United States
Chairs:  Argyro Kavvada, NASA Headquarters, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, United States and Douglas Cripe, GEO Group on Earth Observations, Geneva, Switzerland
OSPA Liaison:  Stephanie Schollaert Uz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4321 Climate impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4329 Sustainable development [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

GEOGLAM at the Interface of Agriculture, Food Security, Earth observation, and Global Policy Frameworks (Invited) (341189)
Alyssa K Whitcraft1, Inbal Becker-Reshef2, Christopher Owen Justice2, Ian Jarvis3 and Lauren Gifford4, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (3)GEO Group on Earth Observations, Geneva, Switzerland, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
Using Earth Observations for Building Risk-Informed Cities (466043)
Shanna N. McClain, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences, Washington, United States
Using Earth Observations to Improve Global Fundamental Geospatial Data Themes Vital to Sustainable Development (450069)
Robert S Chen, Columbia University, CIESIN, Palisades, NY, United States, Alex M de Sherbinin, Columbia University, CIESIN, Palisades, United States and Gregory Yetman, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, United States
Utilizing Earth Observation and Model Data Sets to Inform and Support Decision and Policy Makers As Well As Sustainable Development Goal Initiatives. (Invited) (431487)
Ghada El Serafy1, Alexander Ziemba2, Lorinc Meszaros1, Joan Maso3 and Antonello Provenzale4, (1)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (2)Deltares, ZKS, Delft, Netherlands, (3)CREAF, Bellaterra, Spain, (4)Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (IGG), Pisa, Italy
Integrating satellite-derived products into decision support systems for water quality monitoring (Invited) (413595)
Nima Pahlevan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Steven R Greb, WDNR Science Operations Center, Madison, WI, United States, Melissa Giuliana Salbatier, National Water Authority of Perú (ANA), Lima, Peru, Felipe Mandarino, City of Rio de Janeiro, Rio deJaneiro, Brazil and Virginia Fernandez, National Directorate for the Environment, Environmental Information, Montevideo, Uruguay
EcoMap: A Decision-Support Tool to Monitor Global Mangrove Vulnerability and its Drivers (434529)
Liza Goldberg, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, UMD/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Atholton High School, Columbia, MD, United States, David Lagomasino, East Carolina University, Integrated Coastal Programs, Greenville, NC, United States and Temilola Fatoyinbo, NASA GSFC, Biospheric Science, Greenbelt, United States
Earth observations to verify farmer- and field-level changes in Punjab, India: Aligning Nationally Determined Contributions to meet Paris Climate Agreement commitments with Sustainable Development Goals (441431)
Jessica McCarty, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States and David Milller Banach, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
Earth Observation Application Products from the Open Data Cube addressing Sustainable Development Goals and contributing to Global Policy Frameworks (Invited) (341282)
Brian Killough, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Trends.Earth: A platform for using earth observation data in support of the support of the Sustainable Development Goals (467811)
Alex Ivan Zvoleff1, Mariano Gonzalez-Roglich1 and Monica Noon2, (1)Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States, (2)Conservation International, Washington, United States

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