Deciding - 115
Peace, education and information
The dove of peace has inspired this artist of the
‘School of art in the village’ of Tiagba (Ivory Coast).
The Rio + 20 Conference confirmed that Education
for sustainable development aims at enabling
everyone to acquire the values, competencies, skills
and knowledge necessary to contribute to building
a more sustainable society.
It also highlighted the
importance of Earth observation data and information
for policymaking, and recognized the relevance and
ongoing efforts in developing global environmental
observing systems, particularly for
the monitoring
of essential climate change, biodiversity and land
degradation variables.
©
Sébastien Cailleux/EDAAV
importantly for developing countries, to
pool existing regional capacities, while
national capacity enhancement plans are
being implemented. Collectively, these
regional nodes will form the backbone of
a global GEOSS.
Flexible policy frameworks
Access to GEOSS resources is ensured
through the GEOSS Portal, providing
access to millions of Earth observation
data resources, information products
and services held by GEO Members
and
Participating
Organizations.
GEONETCast, a near real time, global
data broadcasting system complements
GEOSS Portal functions, and ensures
access to GEOSS resources where
Internet connectivity is poor.
GEOMembers committed to implementing
the GEOSS Data Sharing Principles are
developing flexible policy frameworks that
enable a more open data environment.
Programs such as Landsat in the USA,
ENVISAT et Sentinel in Europe, which
have adopted broad open data policies are
having an immense effect on the degree
to which Earth observation data is being
used. We are hopeful other countries will
similarly adopt these practices.
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Used for agricultural monitoring; this color
composite of the Gambia River comprises ALOS and
Envisat radar data from 2010. Yellow areas represent
stable vegetation or settlements; blue areas are unstable.
© ESA/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/Sarmap
