GEOSS: Services Supporting Hazard Assessments and Disaster Reduction

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GEOSS Services Supporting Hazard Assessments and
Disaster Reduction
Hans-Peter Plag(1), Francesco Gaetani(2), Stuart
Marsh(1) (1) Co-Chair, Geohazards Community of
Practice (2) GEO Secretariat
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The Group on Earth Observations
Ad hoc Group on Earth Observations established in
2003 by G8 in response to 2002 Johannesburg
Summit on Sustainable Development Mandat
Develop an Implementation Plan for a coodinated
Earth observation system After eighteen months
and many meetings (including 2 Summits on EO)
10 Year Implementation Plan for the Global Earth
Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) was
available. Vision A future where decisions are
informed by Earth observations
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The Group on Earth Observations
Group on Earth Observations (GEO) established at
the EO Summit in February 2005 in Brussels One
major objective Establish a coordinated and
sustained Global Earth Observation System of
Systems (GEOSS) to enhance informed decision
making (in nine Societal Benefit
Areas) Participation By now 90 Member Countries
and gt60 Participating Organizations
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The Group on Earth Observations
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The Group on Earth Observations

• Main Objectives
• Improve and Coordinate Earth Observations
• Provide easier and more access to data
• Facilitate societal benefits of EO through use
  and applications
• Build capacity in the use of EO

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GEOSS
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GEOSS
GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)
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How Does GEO Work?
Illustrated by key documents 10 Year
Implementation Plan GEO Strategic Targets For
each SBA and cross-cutting Data Sharing
Principles Work Plan Defines Tasks is annually
updated
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Strategic Targets
GEOSS STRATEGIC TARGET OF THE DISASTER
SBA Enable the global coordination of observing
and information systems to support all phases of
the risk management cycle associated with hazards
(mitigation and preparedness, early warning,
response, and recovery). This will be achieved
through - more timely dissemination of
information from globally-coordinated systems for
monitoring, predicting, risk assessment, early
warning, mitigating, and responding to hazards at
local, national, regional, and global levels -
development of multi-hazard and/or end-to-end
approaches, as appropriate to meet the needs for
disaster risk reduction, preparedness and
response in relevant hazard environments -
supporting the implementation of the priorities
for action identified in the Hyogo Framework for
Action 2005-2015 Building the resilience of
nations and communities to disasters (HFA).
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Strategic Targets
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GEO Work Plan 2012-2014
DI-01 Informing Risk Management and Disaster
Reduction C1 Disaster Management Systems C2
Geohazards Monitoring, Alert, and Risk
Assessment C3 Tsunami Early Warning and Hazard
Assessment C4 Global Wildland Fire Information
System C5 Regional End-to-End Pilots
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GEO Work Plan 2012-2014

• DI-01 Informing Risk Management and Disaster
  Reduction
• C1 Disaster Management Systems
• Leads (tentative)
• EC (GMES), South Africa (CSIR), USA (NASA), CEOS,
  ESA, UNITAR, UNOOSA
• Priority Actions
• Improve access to information provided through
  key disaster management mechanisms.
• Make information related to environmental risk
  and vulnerability easily accessible through a
  centralized platform.
• Enhance the use of satellite data for disaster
  management.
• Integrate baseline geographic information and
  reference maps with real-time data from satellite
  or in-situ platforms.
• Review global and regional disaster risk
  management systems.
• Perform a gap analysis considering data,
  metadata, systems, and capacity.

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GEO Work Plan 2012-2014
DI-01 Informing Risk Management and Disaster
Reduction C2 Geohazards Monitoring, Alert, and
Risk Assessment Leads (tentative) EC
(OneGeology), Italy (EUCentre), South Africa
(DST), USA (Univ. of Miami, USGS), EPOS, ESA,
FDSN Priority Actions Apply a fully
integrated approach to geohazards monitoring,
based on collaboration among existing networks
and international initiatives, using new
instrumentation such as in-situ sensors, and
aggregating space (RADAR, optical imagery) and
ground-based (subsurface) observations. Support
the establishment of Supersites and Natural
Laboratories. Provide an e-infrastructure
allowing easy data access (space in-situ)
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GEO Work Plan 2012-2014
DI-01 Informing Risk Management and Disaster
Reduction C3 Tsunami Early Warning and Hazard
Assessment Leads (tentative) EC (DG-ECHO, JRC),
Germany (DLR), IOC Priority Actions Support
tsunami early warning. Promote real-time data
sharing in particular seismic and sea-level
(deep-ocean and tide-gauge data). Standardize
procedures, terminology, communication and
evacuation practices. Optimize tsunami evacuation
plans through the use of damage scenarios and
traffic flow models. Support tsunami hazards
assessment. Enable and develop a global tsunami
hazard map through provision of bathymetry and
topography data
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GEO Work Plan 2012-2014
DI-01 Informing Risk Management and Disaster
Reduction C4 Global Wildland Fire Information
System Leads (tentative) Canada (CFS), EC (JRC),
Germany (GFMC), South Africa (CSIR), USA (NOAA,
USDA), GTOS (GOFC-GOLD) Priority Actions
Support the establishment of an operational
Global Wildland Fire Early Warning System
(GWFEWS). Improve fire management cooperation
and regional coordination with local systems.
Support and promote the use of satellite data for
wildfire risk assessment and damage assessment
Develop longer-term predictions of fire-danger
based on advanced numerical weather models (in
coordination with WE-01) Expand fire-danger
rating systems to countries that do not have the
financial nor institutional capacity to develop
their own system
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GEO Work Plan 2012-2014
DI-01 Informing Risk Management and Disaster
Reduction C5 Regional End-to-End Pilots Leads
(tentative) Canada (CSA), USA (NASA, USAID),
CEOS Priority Actions (synthesis) Implement
regional and cross-cutting end-to-end projects.
Develop natural-risk decision-support tools and
applications supporting the full cycle of
disaster management, especially for developing
countries. Identify locations of tandem
centers of excellence in developed and developing
regions and initiate the formation of centers
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GEO Work Plan 2012-2014
DI-01 Informing Risk Management and Disaster
Reduction C1 Disaster Management Systems C2
Geohazards Monitoring, Alert, and Risk
Assessment Supersites C3 Tsunami Early Warning
and Hazard Assessment C4 Global Wildland Fire
Information System C5 Regional End-to-End
Pilots Tandem Centers
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Supersites Initative
Original proposal 2007 Frascati
Declaration ... recommend to stimulate an
international and intergovernmental effort to
monitor and study selected reference sites by
establishing open access to relevant datasets
according to GEO principles to foster the
collaboration between all various partners and
end-users
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Supersites Initative
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Supersites Initative
Original proposal 2007 Frascati
Declaration ... recommend to stimulate an
international and intergovernmental effort to
monitor and study selected reference sites by
establishing open access to relevant datasets
according to GEO principles to foster the
collaboration between all various partners and
end-users
Implementation - focused on limited data
types - mainly serves the data needs of
science - event-based sites more data and
attention.
Challenges - broaden data sharing - link
science and end-users - focus on the prepare
phase.
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End-to-End Pilots
The GeoHazards Community of Practice (GHCP)
Support from UNESCO, IUGS Builds on the work of
Geohazards Theme of IGOS-P and three
International Workshops on Geohazards Developed
a Road Map mainly during a Workshop in Jan. 2010
at UNESCO, Paris Road Map impacted the Disaster
Task DI-01.
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End-to-End Pilots
GEO's goal for the Disasters Societal Benefit
Area (SBA) is reducing loss of life and property
from natural and human-induced disasters. GEOSS
STRATEGIC TARGET OF THE DISASTER SBA Enable the
global coordination of observing and information
systems to support all phases of the risk
management cycle associated with hazards
(mitigation and preparedness, early warning,
response, and recovery).
STRATEGIC TARGET OF THE GHCP By 2020 put in
place all building blocks for comprehensive
monitoring of geohazards and the provision of
timely information on spatio-temporal
characteristics, risks, and occurrence of
geohazards, in support of all phases of the risk
management cycle (mitigation and preparedness,
early warning, response, and recovery), and as a
basis for increased resilience and disaster
reduction.
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GEO, GEOSS and the GHCP

• GEO Strategic Target focuses on disaster
  reduction
• Data sharing supports hazards and data related
  research and applications
• GEOSS services and pilots support disaster
  reduction
• DI-01 Addresses several aspects of the risk
  management cycle
• Architecture Implementation Project has a use
  case on Disaster
• GHCP Road Map addresses all four phases of the
  risk management cycle.