Ecosystems: Achievements

The Early Achievements – representing the 100 First Steps to GEOSS – have been contributed by GEO Members and Participating Organizations. Their presentation to Ministers and senior officials at the Cape Town Ministerial Summit on 30 November marks a major milestone in the construction of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems.

Click on the Early Achievements below to learn more about how GEOSS will strengthen decision making in the field of ecosystems.

• Arctic Observing Network
• Census of Marine Life
• ChlorOGIN Building a Chlorophyll Ocean Global Integrated Network
• Continuous Plankton Recorder survey
• European Marine Core Service (EMCS)
• Evaluating African Protected Areas
• Large-Marine Ecosystem Indicators of Global Change
• Indian National Centre for Ocean Information – INCOIS
• POSTEL Land Surface Thematic Center in France
• PUMA and AMESD: promoting the use of Earth Observation for Sustainable
  development in Africa
• Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatory Initiative (SIGEO)
• South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON)