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Observing systems for the Pacific Islands region – unique

challenges for a unique environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95

Paul Eastwood, Marc Overmars, Cristelle Pratt, Komal Raman, Peter Sinclair,

Lloyd Smith, Arthur Webb and Linda Yuen, Secretariat of the Pacific Islands

Applied Geoscience Commission; Dean Solofa, Secretariat of the Pacific

Regional Environment Programme

Canada’s National Land and Water Information Service . . . . . . . . . . . . .98

Ian Jarvis, Manager; Heather McNairn, Research Scientist; Allan Howard,

Manager; Catherine Champagne, Scientist; Ryan Ogston, Scientist, Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada

Canada’s sustained Arctic monitoring programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

Doug Bancroft, Director, Canadian Ice Service, Environment Canada; Andrew

Eddy, President, Athena Global; Guy Séguin, Director, Spacecraft Payloads,

Canadian Space Agency

TerraSAR-X – a new system in the system of systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Dr Stefan Knabe, Infoterra GmbH; Dr Jörn Hoffman and Achim Roth, German

Aerospace Center

KoFlux contribution to GEOSS:

HydroKorea II and CarboEastAsia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Joon Kim, Department of Atmospheric Sciences & Global Environmental

Laboratory, Yonsei University, Soeul; Sung Kim, Sustainable Water Resources

Research Center/KICT, Korea

GEOSS architecture principles and the GEOSS Clearinghouse . . . . . . .106

Eliot Christian, United States Geological Survey

Dissemination/Information Systems

GEONETCast: nerve system for the planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110

Linda Moodie, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Michael

Williams, EUMETSAT; Fan Jinlong, China Meteorological Administration

The GEOPortal – gateway to GEOSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112

Hermann Ludwig Moeller and Jolyon Martin, European Space Agency

CBERS – the Chinese-Brazilian Earth Resources Satellite programme . . .116

José Carlos Neves Epiphânio, João Vianei Soares, Hilcéa Ferreira and

Gilberto Câmara Neto, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil

GEOSS: a platform for sharing information and expertise

for sustainable management of natural resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

Driss Elhadani, Director, the Royal Centre for Remote Sensing

Capacity building networks for Earth observation and geo-ICT:

a first step towards a virtual university . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120

Martien Molenaar and Chris Mannaerts,

International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation

European monitoring service: achievements,

operational perspectives and new challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

Marc Tondriaux, CEO and Gil Denis, Head of Business Development,

GMES Applications and Services, Infoterra Group

European Marine Core Service: global and regional

ocean monitoring and forecasting, a service to society . . . . . . . . . . . . .128

Yves Desaubies, MERSEA project and European Marine Core Service Consortium

Linking GEOSS and European environmental monitoring . . . . . . . . . .131

Markus Erhard and Tim Haigh, European Environment Agency;

Bo Normander, National Environmental Research Institute

SERVIR: putting Earth observation

science and technology into practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134

Carrie Stokes, US agency for International Development

Forecasting and Warning Systems

The socio-economic and environmental benefits of a revolution

in weather, climate and Earth system analysis and prediction . . . . . . . .136

Melvyn Shapiro, Jagadish Shukla, Brian Hoskins, John Church, Kevin

Trenberth, Michel Beland, Guy Brasseur, Mike Wallace, Gordon McBean, Jim

Caughey, David Rogers, Gilbert Brunet, Leonard Barrie, Ann Hendersen-Sellers,

David Burridge, Tetsuo Nakazawa, Martin Miller, Phillippe Bougeault, Rick

Anthes, Zoltan Toth and Tim Palmer

All-hazards, all-media public warning standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

Eliot Christian, United States Geological Survey

The North American Drought Monitor and

a global drought early warning system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Jay Lawrimore, Richard Heim and Tim Owen, NOAAs Natioal Climatic Data

Center, USA; Mark Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center, USA;

Valentina Davydova, Servicio Meteorólógico Nacional, Mexico; Dwayne

Chobanik, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, National Agroclimate

Information Service; Brad Rippey, US Department of Agriculture, and Doug

LeComte, NOAA Climate Prediction Center, USA

GEOSS and the prediction of short-term changes

in the oceanic environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Ian T. Hunter, Principal Researcher, South African Weather Service

III

OCIETAL

ENEFIT

REAS OF

GEOSS

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Disasters

Improved use of satellites for risk management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158

GEO DI-06-09 Steering Committee: Guy Séguin, Chair, Canadian Space

Agency; Stephen Ambrose, NASA; Robert Backhaus, DLR; Jérôme Béquignon,

ESA; Andrew Eddy, Athena Global; Jérôme Lafeuille, WMO; Francesco Pisano,

UNOSAT; Giovanni Rum, GEO Secretariat and David Stevens, UNOOSA

Disaster risk management: an investment in development . . . . . . . . . .160

Maryam Golnaraghi, PhD and Jean-Baptiste Migraine, WMO Disaster Risk

Reduction Programme

Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics

(GOFC-GOLD): monitoring and early warning systems

for wildland fire disaster reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164

William J. de Groot, Tim J. Lynham, Michael A. Brady, Natural Resources

Canada; Ivan A. Csiszar, Diane Davies, Christopher O. Justice, University of

Maryland; Elaine M. Prins, University of Wisconsin; Johann G. Goldammer,

Global Fire Monitoring Center

The advanced fire information system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168

Philip Frost and Dr Bob Scholes, South African Advanced Fire Information System

Disaster monitoring using ASTER and PALSAR data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170

Dr Hiroji Tsu, Managing Director, Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center

(ERSDAC), Japan

Contribution of the International Federation of Digital Seismographic

Networks (FDSN) to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems . .172

Gerardo Suárez, Instituto de Geofisica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de

México; Torild van Eck, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), the

Netherlands; Rhett Butler, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

(IRIS), USA; Domenico Giardini, Swiss Seismological Service, and Tim Ahern,

Data Management Center, (IRIS)

Sentinel Asia: supporting disaster management in the Asia-Pacific region . .174

Hideshi Kozawa and Kazuya Kaku, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Sea-level rise and vulnerable coastal populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177

John A. Church, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Antarctic Climate

and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre; Throkild Aarup, Intergovernmental

Oceaographic Commission, UNESCO; W. Stanley Wilson, US National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administration, and Philip L. Woodworth, Permanent Service for

Mean Sea Level, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory

Earth Observation System response to disaster reduction in Thailand . . .180

Dr Darasri Dowreang, Deputy Director, GISTDA

Health

Human health and biodiversity: making the connection . . . . . . . . . . .182

Gary Foley, Montira Pongsiri and Aaron Ferster,

US Environmental Protection Agency

Applications of remote sensing technologies

for monitoring human health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

Pietro Ceccato, Michael A. Bell, Tufa Dinku and Stephen J. Connor, International

Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Columbia University