GEO Task ST-09-02: Promoting Awareness and Benefits of GEO

Extended Task Sheet:
Status of Activities
Activity 3.3

Sub-Activity 3.3 (Roadmap activity Showing GEOSS at work: compelling examples):

List of Selected Compelling Examples as a Result of the ST-09-02 Review:

• Water:

  Russel Lefevre: Pilot Projects for Improved Water Discovery and Quality Assessments (doc)

  Massimo Menenti: A prototype observation system for water resources in South-East Asia (doc)

• Climate:

  Jun She: Capacity building of operational oceanography and climate adaptation (doc)

  Mitchell W. Moncrieff: Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC) (doc)

• Ecosystems:

  Vojko Bratina: enviroGRIDS Building Capacity for a Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System supporting Sustainable Development (doc)

• Biodiversity:

  Bob Scholes: Protected Areas Monitoring Pilot (doc)

• Agriculture:

  Luca Montanarella: The Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD) as a first step towards a Global Soil Information System (doc)

  Steffen Fritz: Geo-wiki.org: Crowdsourcing to improve Landcover Validation (doc)

• Health:

  Pai-Yei Whung: Using Earth Observations to Benefit Health (doc)

• Cross-cutting:

  Maureen Pagnani: EuroSITES : European Observatory Network (doc).