ICEO/GEO/GEOSS

GEOSS Reaching Beyond the Core

Democratizing Earth observing: A conversation with GEO pioneer Rob Adam

Following the creation of the ad hoc intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations in Washington in 2003, South Africa’s Rob Adam was selected as one of GEO’s four co-chairs, alongside colleagues from the U.S., Japan and the European Commission. At the time, Dr. Adam was directing the rebirth of South African science and engineering as Director General of the government’s Department of Science and Technology. Adam quickly swung into action to advance GEO’s goal to build the Global Earth Observation System of Systems or GEOSS, working in particular to double developing country membership in GEO and pushing for investment in their capacity to participate in Earth data collection and application.

Peter Fairley, posted on November 18th, 2007
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IEEE Launches JSTARS, A Journal of Earth Observation Applications

The first volume of the Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (IEEE J-STARS) will appear in 2008.

, posted on November 1st, 2007
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A Global Search Engine For Geospatial Data

If you’re a scientist or engineer cobbling together a geospatial project, say you’re trying to figure out how many people would be threatened by a tsunami in the Indian Ocean, a truism holds that you spend 80 percent of the time hunting down usable data. The data, when they exist at all, often are archived in incompatible formats, have varying degrees of accuracy and precision, and sometimes require a good deal of political savvy to find.

Sandra Upson, posted on October 29th, 2007
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