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Member spotlight: China
Call for Applications: GEO and Amazon Web Services collaborate to provide Cloud Credits for projects that improve understanding of our planet
Call for Abstracts: EO for Sustainable Development at EGU 2019
Call for experts to join the International Resource Panel
GEO Week 2018 looks to the digital economy for Earth observation data and technology
CropWatch Cloud supports crop monitoring for food security in Mozambique
Canada renews contribution to GEO
Blog post: The role of Digital Earth in a Transformed Society
Australia to host 2019 GEO Ministerial Summit
Germany Pledges 100,000 Euros to GEO Land Degradation Neutrality Initiative
South Africa to Chair Group on Earth Observations
GEO Highlights 2017-2018 Report Now Available
New Tool Allows Users to Explore Islands Worldwide
Blog post: How space technology is transforming Africa’s food system through low-cost insurance products for smallholders
Blog post: Making the case for Earth observation data: A case study of the Landsat programme
Blog post: Leveraging Earth Observation data for Air Quality Monitoring
Blog post: Cyprus Aspires to Enter Space Arena with the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence
Blog post: Meet Joost Teuben: Capacity building expert joins the GEO team as virtual secondee
Blog post: Meet Guo Man: New agriculture expert joins GEO Secretariat
Farewell message from outgoing GEO Secretariat Director Barbara J. Ryan to the GEO Community
Kenya’s First National Crop Monitor Set to Strengthen Food Security
GEO at AGU Fall Meeting: Call for Abstracts
Blog post: Earth Observations for Urban Resilience: Takeaways from ICLEI’s 2018 Resilient Cities Congress
From up there to down here - Big space data and the SDGs
Blog post: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2018 – GEO Land Degradation Neutrality Activity
Blog post: World Oceans Day 2018 - Using Earth Observations to Protect our Blue Planet
Blog post: World Environment Day - several GEO activities for the environment!
EuroGEOSS Workshop 2018, 12-14 September 2018 at the University of Geneva
Blog post: Interview: GEOSS/HACK 2018 winners design app to track wild fires in Madagascar
Eye on Earth webinar: Artificial Intelligence for Earth
Building sargassum & oil spill monitoring capabilities in the Caribbean and adjacent regions
3rd GEO Data Providers Workshop drives forward global technical cooperation on data for development
GEO News Update: May 2018
EuroGEOSS call for expressions of intent
Monitoring the climate with Earth observation data: GEO at the 2018 Climate Show
Progress on GEOGLAM Crop Monitors highlighted at G20 Agriculture Deputies Meeting
Blog post: Meet James Norris: New disasters expert joins GEO Secretariat
Blog post: Bringing People Closer to Earth Data: An overview of recent GEOSS Platform upgrades
GEO welcomes 8 new Participating Organizations
Value of Earth Observations Highlighted at Data for Development Festival
Half of Earth’s satellites restrict use of climate data
Webinar: Artificial Intelligence for Earth - 23 May 2PM UTC
Blog post: Armenia benefits from GEO engagement
Harnessing the Potential of Earth Observations for Sustainable Development: Emerging Opportunities
Contributions from UNIGE/ISE to the Group on Earth Observations and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems
2018 POGO Visiting Fellowship for Shipboard Training on an Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) Cruise
Water and the Data Cube Revolution: Analysis-ready satellite data for better decisions
Save the Date: GEO Symposium 2018
Blog post: Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observing System: A European Strategy
Delivering Earth observations worldwide: GEONETCast
Blog post: More than a workshop - key EO data event approaches 3rd and biggest year
Call for Community Input Arctic Observing Summit 2018 Deadline: 4 March
Call for Session Proposals for SciDataCon 2018: Deadline approaching
GEO Advances Priority Efforts at Workshop on the Role of the Ocean for SDGs in the Caribbean & SIDS
GEO participates in Key Global Events on Disaster Risk Reduction
GEO Carbon and GHG Initiative drives forward Global Cooperation on Greenhouse Gas Measurements
EO-College and SAR EDU release compilation of freely available software for SAR Remote Sensing
GEO at WUF9: Earth observations, resilience and the New Urban Agenda
Nature Comment paper by Prof. GUO Huadong: Steps to the Digital Silk Road
Blog post: Open Space: The Global Effort for Open Access to Satellite Data
Call for Applications: NF-POGO Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography at the Alfred Wegener Institute
World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility joins Global Forest Observation Initiative (GFOI) Leadership
Blog post: GEO’s Value Highlighted at COP23
Exploring the depths of the global earth observation system of systems
A view-based model of data-cube to support big earth data systems interoperability
Blog post: Earth Observations: Global Perspectives from the UK
The data-user decade
UK POSTnote: Environmental Earth Observation
From GCI to GEOSS Platform: a comprehensive response to user needs
GEO at COP23: Integrated Observations for Mitigation and Adaptation & Practical Support to Parties
EoE Webinar: Nov 22, 2017 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CET
Appointment of Gilberto Câmara as the next GEO Secretariat Director
Register now: GEOSS Portal Virtual Workshop
Blog post: Join in OpenStreetMap GeoWeek - November 12th-17th
China to share data from Fengyun-4A weather sat and carbon-monitoring TanSat
Mitigating Flooding and Drought through Data for Decision-Making
Insight for a Changing World: 14th GEO Plenary
New Tool Allows Users to Explore Mountains Worldwide
Reducing Disaster Risks Through Earth Observations
New on the GCI: Healthsites health care location data for West Africa
Blog post: SMURBS: SMart URBan Solutions for Air Quality, Disasters and Urban Growth
Blog post: China’s SASMAC advances regional cooperation on Earth observations
OceanObs ’19 seeks experts to join Program Committee
Breakout session on scales of Arctic Earth Observations at the 2017 Arctic Circle Assembly on 14th October
Blog post: GEONETCast Mexico: US – Mexico Space Cooperation for Disaster Risk Reduction
Press Release: Major milestone reached in forest monitoring from space
Blog post: Automatic Semantic Enrichment for Intelligent Big Earth Observation Databases
Development Seed to host GEO Week icebreaker
EuroGeographics Webinar, 28 November 2017, 11:00-12:00 (CET)
Blog post: Leveraging the Cloud and Earth observations for monitoring development in Africa
Analysing existing data infrastructures for climate services
Blog post: Open population grid data aids ICRC´s crisis response
Blog post: Distributed Ledger Technology: Blockchain for shared economy of space
The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks
Report on the 2nd GEO Data Providers Workshop
Blog post: An eye on Earth: satellite Earth Observation for agriculture insurance
Blog post: Open Data Areas Alberta – EO for Cumulative Effects and Integrated Resource Management
Regional Workshop on Himalayan GEOSS
Blog post: New leadership revitalizes GEO Health Community of Practice
Blog post: Blue Planet 3rd Symposium: The role of oceans in Earth’s life-support system
AGU Fall Meeting 2017
Blog post: Balkan Peninsula cooperates on Earth Observation services for sustainable development
University of Geneva: continuing education and summer school programme
Blog post: New report shows how EO data can help to measure the Sendai Framework for DRR
Pecora 20 Remote Sensing Symposium
Blog post: 2nd AfriGEOSS Symposium
Open Earth Observations for Decision Making - Call for Applications!
Blog post: Perspectives on the Nature of Geospatial Information
Blog post: Research Dialogue 9
3rd GEOSS Portal Demo - Virtual Workshop
Blog post: Geneva innovations
Blog post: Digital Earth Australia: Big Data for a Big Country
Blog post: #FutureEO
Blog post: Mapping Nations - The Next Decade
Blog post: Marine observation - with Frank Muller Karger
Survey: What next for Polar research?
Blog post: Development Seed, "a timely conversation" at the Data Providers Workshop
Press Release: Global push for Earth observations continues
OECD work on Earth observation for decision making
The Copernicus Masters, 2017
Blog post: Understanding changes in cold regions
Blog post: Atlas of the Human Planet assesses vulnerabilities to disaster
Vacancy notice: GEO Secretariat Director (2018-2020)
Blog post: Early Warning at Global Scale
Blog post: GPSDD announces funding for EO data projects
New Report Illustrates How EO Supports Sustainable Development
Blog post: EO to measure how cities are growing
Open EO Data on Open Data Day
New Zealand Government thanks ChinaGEOSS, CODATA and IRDR for their help following 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake
Blog post: Padou Lambert uses EO for Ecotourism
Blog post: OGC - Open Standards for GEO
Members’ views on the first GEO Programme Board of 2017
GEO Secretariat Director Ryan on the Geospatial Hall of Fame
GEO XIV Plenary
Earth observation for EU Research and Innovation
Blog post: GEO Value by Francoise Pearlman
Blog post: Giovanni Rum retires from GEO
Blog post: GEO BON at CBD COP 13
The 9th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium
Blog post: MYGEOSS
Blog post: Great Green Wall
US call for proposals for the GEO Work Programme 2017-19
Blog post: Earth Info Day
Open Earth observation data more accessible
Investments in open Earth observation data set to grow
New look GEOSS Portal for better access to Earth observation data
Survey on Earth Observation Capability for the African Union
Atlas of the Human Planet 2016
GEONETCast-Americas, 50 stations and still expanding!
GEO supports the Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (PREP)
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