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Global Earth Observation System of Systems and SERVIR

posted by Satri on Tuesday December 04, @07:49AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the fruits-of-global-actions dept.
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Spatial Sustain runs an entry on Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and SERVIR, a related project in Central America. GEOSS was discussed here two years ago. From SS: "The need for real-time data on changes in the Earth’s lands, oceans, atmosphere and biosphere is being fueled in large part by the billions of dollars and thousands of lives that could be saved by using this system for disaster preparedness. After just two years of existence, GEO has developed 100 different programs and products to monitor and share data about the Earth. The ultimate goal is to link the world’s widely dispersed monitoring devices such as buoys, weather stations and earth observation satellites into one seamless system with a centralized Web portal."

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Directions Mag has an interesting and important article about GEOSS, the Global Earth Observation System of Systems which recently received support by 60 governments and 40 international organizations. From the article: "Right now, there are a vast number of data buoys floating in the ocean, thousands of land-based environmental stations, and more than 50 environmental satellites orbiting in space. All this technology is creating millions of data sets - and most of these are incompatible, making integrated analyses impossible. When GEOSS is finally realized, all of these individual data sets will be able to be integrated and analyzed, creating vastly superior understanding and prediction of natural and man-made events and conditions and better responses to them."
Nature on Earth Monitoring, Italian Satellite, Israel GeoPortal and more [+]
Some interesting news item: Spatial Sustain discuss a long Nature article on Earth Monitoring. Meanwhile, Space.com tells us Italy successfully launched COSMO (previously mentioned), dubbed "the second of four Italian mapping satellites that are planned for the Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation (COSMO)" by SS. Additionally, SS underlines the launch of the Mapping Center of Israel with 120 layers (in Hebrew only). And finally, APB tells us about Localvore, the 2007 word of the year for the Oxford American Dictionary, as you have probably guessed, a locavore is someone who eats food grown or produced locally. From the Nature article: "If that increase in technological capability can be turned into usable systems, then the ability to monitor Earth's environment will be revolutionized. Real-time and near-real-time data will be available on soil moisture, greenhouse-gas concentrations, biological productivity, aerosol concentrations and so on, all around the world. With those data, scientists will be able to build and study models of Earth as a system far beyond what they have today."
Industry: GEOPortal.org Launched by ESA / GEOSS [+]
Ogle Earth shortly discuss the newly launched open source GEOPortal 3D globe from ESA / GEOSS. From OE: "It’s open source and soon downloadable so that you can incorporate it on your own website. It looks quite slick — it’s a browser-based 3D globe onto which you can attach all manner of information." From the GEOPortal.org website: "The GEOportal provides an entry point to access remote sensing, geospatial static and in-situ data, information and services." Some more info here, otherwise, I admit I haven't found much details yet.
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