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):

The following proposals for compelling examples were submitted so far:

• Water:

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

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

• Disasters:

  Kathryn Booth: OneGeology and OneGeology-Europe (doc): rejected

• Climate:

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

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

• Ecosystems:

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

• Biodiversity:

  Bob Scholes: Protected Areas Monitoring Pilot (doc): published

• Agriculture:

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

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

• Health:

  Carol Meyer: Air Quality, related to Health, Climate, Energy, Disasters and Ecosystem SBAs (doc): rejected

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

• Cross-cutting:

  George Percivall: GEOSS Architecture Implementation (doc): rejected

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

  Nico Bonora and Paolo Mazzetti: An Italian S&T infrastructure for contributing to the GEOSS (doc): rejected