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2009-2011 Work Plan Task Sheets

Part 1: Building an Integrated GEOSS

  AR-09-01: GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)

• AR-09-01a: Enabling Deployment of a GEOSS Architecture
• AR-09-01b: GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot
• AR-09-01c: GEOSS Best Practices Registry
• AR-09-01d: Ontology and Taxonomy Development

  AR-09-02: Interoperable Systems for GEOSS

• AR-09-02a: Virtual Constellations
• AR-09-02b: WIS
• AR-09-02c: Sensor Web Enablement for In-Situ Observing Network Facilitation
• AR-09-02d: Model Web Development

  AR-09-03: Advocating for Sustained Observing Systems

• AR-09-03a: Global Terrestrial Observations
• AR-09-03b: Legacy of the International Polar Year 2007-08
• AR-09-03c: Global Ocean Observation System
• AR-09-03d: Global Observing System (GOS)

  AR-09-04: Dissemination and Distribution Networks

• AR-09-04a: GEONETCast
• AR-09-04b: GEONET

  AR-06-11: Radio Frequency Protection

  DA-06-01: GEOSS Data Sharing Principles

  DA-09-01: Data Management

• DA-09-01a: GEOSS Quality Assurance Strategy
• DA-09-01b: Data, Metadata and Products Harmonisation

  DA-09-02: Data Integration and Analysis

• DA-09-02a: Data Integration and Analysis Systems
• DA-09-02b: Ensemble-Technique Forecasting Demonstrations
• DA-09-02c: Global Geodetic Reference Frames
• DA-09-02d: Atmospheric Model Evaluation Network

  DA-09-03: Global Data Sets

• DA-09-03a: Global Land Cover
• DA-09-03b: Global Meteorological and Environmental Data
• DA-09-03c: Digital Geological Map Data
• DA-09-03d: Global DEM

  CB-09-01: Resource (or Seville Roadmap) Mobilization

  CB-09-02: Building Individual Capacity in EO

• CB-09-02a: Recognition of Cross Border Education and Training in EO
• CB-09-02b: Summer Institute on Climate Information for Public Health
• CB-09-02c: UN-SPIDER/GEO Summer Schools on Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management and Emergency Response
• CB-09-02d: CBERS/GEO Capacity Building Network
• CB-09-02e: Earth Observation Game for Youth
• CB-09-02f: GLOBE/GEO Climate Education Project
• CB-09-02g: GEONETCast Training

  CB-09-03: Building Institutional Capacity to Use EO

• CB-09-03a: Building National and Regional Capacity
• CB-09-03b: Establishing Regional Capacity Building Networks
• CB-09-03c: Building Capacity for Non-technical Decision-makers in the Use and Impact of Earth Observation
• CB-09-03d: Building Capacity for Operational Oceanography

  CB-09-04: Capacity Building Needs and Gap Assessment

• CB-09-04a: Identifying Best Practices, Gaps and Needs
• CB-09-04b: Capacity Building Performance Indicators
• CB-09-04c: User Oriented Workshops for GEOSS Outreach and Feedback

  CB-09-05: Infrastructure Development and Technology Transfer for Information Access

• CB-09-05a: Open Source Software
• CB-09-05b: CBERS
• CB-09-05c: SERVIR Expansion
• CB-09-05d: Geo-resources Services for Africa
• CB-09-05e: Data Democracy (Task Sheet in preparation)

  ST-09-01: Catalyzing R&D Funding for GEOSS

  ST-09-02: Promoting Awareness and Benefits of GEO

  US-09-01: User Engagement

• US-09-01a: Identifying Synergies between Societal Benefit Areas
• US-09-01b: Communities of Practice and Partnership Development

  US-09-02: Socio-Economic Indicators

• US-09-02a: Socio-Economic Benefits of GEO and GEOSS
• US-09-02b: Socio-economic and Demographic Global Data
• US-09-02c: Global Road and Human Settlements Mapping on GEO Grid

  US-09-03: Cross-Cutting Products and Services

• US-09-03a: Development of Global Map for GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas
• US-09-03b: Forest Mapping and Change Monitoring
• US-09-03c: Bio-geophysical, Soil & Land Surface Data
• US-09-03d: Global Phenology Data

Part 2: The 9 GEOSS Societal Benefits Areas

  DI-06-09: Use of Satellites for Risk Management 

  DI-09-01: Systematic Monitoring for Geohazards Risk Assessment

• DI-09-01a: Vulnerability Mapping and Risk Assessment
• DI-09-01b: Seismographic Networks Improvement and Coordination

  DI-09-02: Multi-Risk Management and Regional Applications

• DI-09-02a: Implementation of a Multi-Risk Management Approach
• DI-09-02b: Regional End-to-End Disaster Management Applications 

  DI-09-03: Warning Systems for Disasters

• DI-09-03a: Tsunami Early Warning System of Systems
• DI-09-03b: Implementation of a Fire Warning System at Global Level

  HE-09-01: Information Systems for Health

  HE-09-02: Monitoring and Prediction Systems for Health

• HE-09-02a: Aerosol Impacts on Health and Environment
• HE-09-02b: Air Quality Observations, Forecasting and Public Information
• HE-09-02c: Global Monitoring Plan for Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
• HE-09-02d: Global Monitoring Plan for Atmospheric Mercury

  HE-09-03: End to End Projects for Health

• HE-09-03a: Implementation of a Meningitis Decision-Support Tool
• HE-09-03b: Towards a Globally Coordinated Malaria Warning System
• HE-09-03c: Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Health

  EN-07-01: Management of Energy Sources

  EN-07-02: Energy Environmental Impact Monitoring

  EN-07-03: Energy Policy Planning

  CL-06-01: A Climate Record for Assessing Variability and Change

• CL-06-01a: Sustained Reprocessing and Reanalysis of Climate Data
• CL-06-01b: Extending the Record of Climate Variability at Global Scale
• CL-06-01c: Key Climate Data from Satellite Systems

  CL-09-01: Environmental Information for Decision-making, Risk Management and Adaptation

• CL-09-01a: Enhanced Climate, Weather, Water and Environmental Prediction
• CL-09-01b: Climate Information for Decision-making and Adaptation

  CL-09-03: Global Carbon Observation and Analysis System

• CL-09-03a: Integrated Global Carbon Observation (IGCO)
• CL-09-03b: Forest Carbon Tracking 
• CL-09-03c: Global Monitoring of Greenhouse Gases from Space

  WA-06-02: Droughts, Floods and Water Resource Management

• WA-06-02a: Forecasting for Droughts and Floods
• WA-06-02b: Impacts from Drought
• WA-06-02c: Mountain Water Resources
• WA-06-02d: Prototype Regional Drought Early Warning Test Beds

  WA-06-07: Capacity Building for Water Resource Management

• WA-06-07a: Latin America
• WA-06-07b: Africa
• WA-06-07c: Asia

  WA-08-01: Integrated Products for Water Resource Management and Research

• WA-08-01a: Soil Moisture
• WA-08-01b: Runoff
• WA-08-01c: Groundwater
• WA-08-01d: Precipitation
• WA-08-01e: Water Cycle Data Integration
• WA-08-01f: Improved Water Discovery and Quality Assessments
• WA-08-01g: Global Water Quality Monitoring

  WE-06-03: TIGGE and the Development of GIFS

  WE-09-01: Capacity Building for High-Impact Weather Prediction

• WE-09-01a: Infrastructure for Numerical Weather Prediction
• WE-09-01b: Improved Predictions of High-Impact Weather in Africa

  EC-09-01: Ecosystem Observation and Monitoring Network (GEO EcoNet)

• EC-09-01a: Ecosystem Classification and Mapping
• EC-09-01b: Ecosystem Status and Trends
• EC-09-01c: Regional Networks for Ecosystems
• EC-09-01d: Protected Areas Assessment and Monitoring

  EC-09-02: Ecosystem Vulnerability to Global Change

• EC-09-02a: Impact of Tourism on Environmental and Socio-Economic Activities
• EC-09-02b: Impact of Transport Infrastructure Development
• EC-09-02c: Vulnerability of Sea Basins
• EC-09-02d: Vulnerability of Mountain Regions

  AG-06-02: Data Utilization in Fisheries and Aquaculture

  AG-07-03: Global Agricultural Monitoring

• AG-07-03a: Global Agricultural Monitoring System
• AG-07-03b: Agricultural Risk Management
• AG-07-03c: Expanding EO Applications in Agriculture and Promoting Capacity Building in Developing Countries

  BI-07-01: Developing a Biodiversity Observation Network

• BI-07-01a: Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON)
• BI-07-01b: Invasive Species Monitoring System
• BI-07-01c: Capturing Historical and New Biodiversity Data