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Publications
The Full Picture
Launched in November 2007, the Full Picture is a full-colour publication detailing
selected Early Achievements and
other Earth observation projects
and services. You can download "The
Full Picture" by clicking on
the image on the left.
The First 100 Steps to GEOSS
The Early Achievements that governments
and organizations had contributed
to GEOSS as of 2007 have each been summarized
in a two-page brief and collected
in a document entitled “The First 100 Steps to GEOSS”.
GEO brochure
“Observing the Earth and monitoring its host of complex
systems is a role no one organization masters. GEO is
providing the structure and opportunity for governments
and organizations to actively seek better solutions for our
changing planet.
GEOSS as an emerging public infrastructure could prove
as essential to economic and social progress in the 21st
century as new transport and communications systems
were in the 20th.” José Achache,
GEO Secretariat Director. Read the GEO brochure
GEO Information Kit
The GEO Information Kit is a collection of information sheets published in February 2008. The first two introductory sheets describe
the Group on Earth Observations, and the “system of systems”, or GEOSS, that it is constructing. The next nine sheets explain the “Societal Benefit Areas”, or SBAs, which provide a convenient
reference-frame for understanding GEO and GEOSS. None of these areas, of course,
exists in isolation: much of the value of GEOSS lies in its ability to integrate information across
disciplines. This collection therefore concludes with several sheets on issues that cut across, and are
relevant to, all of the Societal Benefit Areas.
Read the GEO Information Kit.
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