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Presentations

GEO Symposium presentations

Session 1 – Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change Adaptation, and Disaster Resilience: Opportunities for Integration in the Application of Earth Observations

• Opening remarks (Barbara Ryan - GEO Secretariat)
• Keynote presentation: "Living with Uncertainty, Democratising Risk Information" (Marc Gordon - UNISDR)
• Ivan Petiteville - ESA
• William Sonntag - MIT Media Lab
• Heather Leson - Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
• Thomas Kemper - EC-JRC
• Stephen Passmore - Resilience Brokers

Session 2 – Challenges and Opportunities for Data Sharing and Data Management

• GEO Data Sharing and Data Management overview (Wenbo Chu - GEO Secretariat)
• What we found in exploring the GEOSS universe (Max Craglia, EC-JRC - Stefano Nativi, EC-JRC/CNR)
• The development and analysis of the initial Data Sharing Survey and plans for its future (Steven F. Browdy, IEEE - Miles Gabriel, Esri UK)
• Levels of certification of the data management principles and the DMP label (Joan Maso - CREAF)
• Describing the quality of geospatial data integrated with socioeconomic data (Robert Downs - WDS/CIESIN)
• Importance of Data Management Principles for the GEOSS Platform and for data providers and users (Guido Colangeli - ESA)
• Importance of Data Management Principles for the GEOSS Platform and for data providers and users (Paola De Salvo - GEO Secretariat)

Session 3 – Addressing Gaps in Coordination of In-situ Terrestrial Observations

• Overview of the GEOSS In-situ Resources Foundational Task (Andre Obregon - GEO Secretariat)
• Perspective from the Global Climate Observing System (Simon Eggleston - GCOS)
• Perspective from International Long-Term Ecological Research Network (Michael Mirtl - ILTER)
• Perspective from the Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network (Hiroyuki Muraoka - AP-BON)
• Perspective from Environmental Research Infrastructure (Jouni Heiskanen - ICOS)

Session 4 – Transformative Digital Technologies

• Why and how to Communicate impact (Steven Ramage - GEO Secretariat)
• Autonomous vehicles, intelligent sensors, and artificial intelligence (René Garello - IEEE/IMT Atlantique)
• Semantically enhanced UAVs to increase the aerial scene understanding (Sabrina Senatore - University of Salerno)
• Crowd-sourcing and citizen science (Ian McCallum - IIASA)
• GEOSS evolution: A user-driven GEOSS for the future (Ivan Deloatch - USA-FGDC)
• Challenges in machine learning for Earth observation data analysis (Gilberto Cȃmara - GEO Secretariat)
• Artificial intelligence for environmental applications (Fabio Scotti - University of Milan)

Session 5 – Regional Coordination

• Introduction (Hiroyuki Muraoka, Gifu University - Imraan Saloojee, South Africa/SANSA)
• Perspective from AfriGEOSS (Zipho Tyoda - South Africa/DST)
• Perspective from AmeriGEOSS (Angélica Gutierrez - US/NOAA)
• Perspective from AOGEOSS (Xingfa Gu - China/RADI)
• Perspective from EuroGEOSS (Michel Schouppe - EC/RTD)

Session 6 – Engaging the Commercial Sector in the GEO Work Programme

• EARSC Perspective (Geoff Sawyer - EARSC)
• EO Value Chain: Opportunities for Commercial Collaboration with GEO (Emmanuel Mondon - AdviceGEO)
• Contributing to GEO Work Programme Activities: Experience with Ecological Marine Units (Pat Cummens - Esri)
• Water Services from Earth Observation: A commercial perspective on GEO (Carsten Brockmann - Brockmann Consult GmbH Germany)
• Scaling EO4Impact (Ian Schuler - Development Seed)

Session 7 – The Role of Earth Observations in Supporting the Paris Climate Agreement

• Paris Agreement Follow-up and Systematic Observations (Joanna Post - UNFCCC)
• Refinement of Guidelines for National GHG Inventories (Abdalah Mokssit - IPCC)
• Paris and the Evolving Requirements of the Global Climate Observing System (Simon Eggleston - GCOS)
• WMO Observing System Contributions to Monitoring the Paris Agreement (Lars-Peter Riishojgaard - WMO)
• Space Agencies Responding to the New Requirements (Joerg Schulz - CEOS/CGMS)
• Grand Challenges in Climate Research (Michel Rixen - WCRP)
• Earth Observation Applications and Challenges – The Geosciences/IUGG Perspective (Michael Sideris - IUGG)

Session 8 – Programme Board Round Table

• Programme Board Round Table (GEO PB Co-Chairs: Ivan DeLoatch, US/USGS - Osamu Ochiai, Japan/JAXA - Ivan Petiteville, ESA)

Symposium recording

• Watch Day 1 - part 1
• Watch Day 1 - part 2
• Watch Day 1 - part 3
• Watch Day 1 - part 4
• Watch Day 2 - part 1
• Watch Day 2 - part 2
• Watch Day 2 - part 3
• Watch Day 2 - part 4
• Watch Day 2 - part 5
• Watch Day 2 - part 6
• Watch Day 2 - part 7
• Watch Day 2 - part 8