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User Interface Committee
The User Interface Committee engages users in the nine societal benefit areas in the development, implementation, and use of a sustained GEOSS that provides the data and information required by user groups on national, regional and global scales.
The User Interface Committee has a specific goal to address cross-cutting issues by coordinating user communities of practice, ensuring continuity and avoiding duplication.
Objectives
Enable GEO to address the needs and concerns of a broad range of user communities in developing and developed countries, across issues and trans-disciplinary needs, with a particular focus on fostering new or less organized communities.
Enable GEO, in the implementation of GEOSS, to engage a continuum of users, from producers to the final beneficiaries of the data and information
Facilitate linkages and partnerships between established communities of practice and new groups or organizations interested in collaborating.
Committee Co-Chairs:
- European Commission – Francesco Pignatelli, GMES Co-ordinator, Global Environment Monitoring, Institute for Environment and Sustainability/DG Joint Research Center
- France – Thierry Ranchin, Deputy Director of the Centre for Energy and Processes, Head of Observation, Modelling, Decision Teamp, Ecole des Mines de Paris (ENSMP)
- IEEE – Ellsworth F. LeDrew, Professor of Geography, University Research Chair, University of Waterloo, Canada
- United States – Gary J. Foley, Earth Observation Executive, Office of the Science Advisor, Environmental Protection Agency
The GEO Secretariat Expert Staff supporting the User Interface Committee are: Masami Onoda, Fernando Ramos and Jinlong Fan
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