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The GEO Indigenous Alliance: Towards more inclusive humanitarian action - side event at HNPW 2021
Join the launch of the Urban Heritage Climate Observatory
IIASA’s data collection tools and services
Webinar: Access High Resolution Satellite Data to Tackle Tropical Deforestation
Launch of the “Earth Observation Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements”
Invitation to the 13th AOGEO Symposium
The GEO Knowledge Hub Webinar
German Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, Julia Klöckner signs agreement to support GEOGLAM for coming years
Celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science: WomenInEO
Interview: The winners of the GEO Indigenous Hack4Covid launch the Visibilidade Quilombola app
GEO welcomes new organisations
Join GEO-INPE Webinars on Brazil’s forest monitoring system (3-4 February 2021)
Launch of “The Atlas of the Human Planet 2020 – Open Geoinformation for Research, Policy, and Action
Join the new webinar series “High Res How-to: for tropical forests.”
Earth observations for large ocean states
Small Work Groups of the GEO Health Community of Practice
GEO at the UNFCCC Climate Dialogues and Earth Information Day 2020
GEOARC Releases Three Reports and Thematic Datasets on Climate Change, Food Security and Sustainable City
WMO Data Conference: Exchange of Earth System Data in the 21st Century - 16-19 November 2020
GEOGloWS Announces Global Streamflow Service Running at ECMWF
How Earth observation can support Disaster Risk Reduction strategies
CI and GEO: connecting EO innovations with key actors of global significance
Reducing disaster vulnerability through earth observations
Appointment of Yana Gevorgyan as the next GEO Secretariat Director
Announcing the GEO 2020 Individual Excellence Awards
Announcing the winners of the 2020 Earth Observation for the Sustainable Development Goals Awards
Microsoft and GEO BON announce the winners of the Essential Biodiversity Variables on the Cloud Grant Programme
Join us for GEO Week 2020: showcasing the impact of Earth observations
EO for mapping and modelling biodiversity in Costa Rica
New International Earth Observation Group Tackles Disaster Risk Reduction
Tools to enable UN Member States at national and local level to use Earth observations to help deliver SDG 11 and the New Urban Agenda
Tracking wildfires through the Global Wildfire Information System
Earth observations to protect Lake Chad
Better together: Bridging Earth Observations and Geospatial Communities at the Americas Symposium 2020
Opening up Earth observations to new audiences: The Cloud Native Geospatial Outreach Day and Sprint
An ‘audacious’ plan to build on a 10 year legacy: The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Make your voice heard in the GEO Community Survey: Deadline extended to 30 September
How citizen science can fill data gaps for the SDGs
New Call for Proposals: Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action on Transdisciplinary Research for Pathways to Sustainability
Submit your abstracts for GEO affiliated events on Capacity Development, COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals at 2020 AGU Fall Meeting
GEO BON moves headquarters to Montréal, Québec, Canada to capitalize on the city’s research environment and AI expertise
Digital discussion on Indigenous Peoples-led Use of Earth Observations at the United Nations High Level Political Forum
Early Warning for Epidemics Webinar using dynamic models, AI and space technology
Expanding the EuroGEO community: e-shape issues a Call for EO-based products 2020
Making it easier to access and use Earth observation data
How to Gain Professional Confidence: Upcoming Women in Geospatial+ and Geovation Webinar
Join us for a Dialog on a Digital Ecosystem for Earth
Meet the winning teams from the GEO Indigenous Hack4Covid Event
Call for Interest: Earth Observations for Climate Change Impacts on World Heritage Cities
Announcing the call for nominations for the 2020 GEO Individual Excellence Awards
In conversation with Women in GIS Kenya
How the Earth observation community can learn from Indigenous Peoples and a Lakota worldview. Interview with James Rattling Leaf Sr.
Key Findings from the European State of the Climate Report
Deadline Extended for the Group on Earth Observations Sustainable Development Goals (GEO SDG) Awards 2020
GEO Indigenous COVID-19 Hackathon 2020
It takes the right information to build back better – Highlights from the UNCCD and GEO Land Degradation Neutrality (GEO LDN) Workshop
New publications to promote the use of Earth observations at the Global Environment Facility
Advancing access to Earth observation information through the Aarhus Convention
GEOGLAM and COVID-19: Responding to an emerging food security emergency
Observing for Action: The Arctic Observing Summit highlights Earth observations and Arctic change
GEO BON – Microsoft: Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) on the Cloud
Earth Challenge 2020: Join the world’s largest citizen science Earth observation effort
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day with the launch of “Earth School”
How indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are making their own maps, when satellite images aren’t accessible. An interview with Mario Vargas (Shakaim)
Deadline Extended for the GEO and UN-Habitat “Earth Observation Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Communities”
Call to the GEO Community on COVID-19
Earth observations for Disaster Risk Reduction: Critical information for policy makers
ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence is paving the way for Cyprus to enter the space arena
Take part in Citizen Science and Earth Observation Challenges at the remote Dubrovnik INSPIRE Hackathon 2020!
Call for members to join new GEO Working Groups
Building a new global definition of cities - from space
Deadline Extended - 15 April: There’s still time to submit your project proposal for the GEO-Google Earth Engine Programme
Supporting the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity and the development of the new Global Biodiversity Framework
Reaching outside the space bubble: The Saturday Satellites interview with Remco Timmermans
Earth observations protecting traditional knowledge in the Brazilian rainforest
Connecting women leaders and changemakers in Earth observations and the wider Geospatial field
Why we need women and girls to explore the science of Earth observations
Earth observations to support sustainable cities and communities
Frequently Asked Questions about the GEO–Google Earth Engine Programme
The power of partnerships: Expanding the use of Earth observation data across Africa
Earth observations support the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the International Symposium on Digital Earth
Supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation using Earth observations: GEO’s Report from COP25
Tracking mercury to save lives
Rounding up the big takeaways from GEO Week 2019
The Manual of Digital Earth: An open access publication to advance the creation of a Digital Earth
Linking Remote Sensing and Local Observations with the Indigenous Knowledge Social Network
Engage with GEO at the UN Climate Change Conference next week in Madrid
Five reasons to look forward to GEO Week 2019
How Earth observations can strengthen traditional knowledge in Arctic communities
Global Hackathon to Advance Earth Observations with Indigenous Communities
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) highlights the value of open data and Earth observations
5 ways to promote women in STEM: Lessons from the Science Festival in Ghana
EuroGEO launches a pioneering new project, e-shape
Emergency Management in the age of Climate Change
Cyprus Aspires to Enter Space Arena with the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence
A call to countries: Invest in Earth observations to manage economies, communities and ecosystems
Public Release of NextGEOSS Platform helps transform Earth observations to actionable information for the SDGs
Member spotlight: China
The role of Digital Earth in a Transformed Society
How space technology is transforming Africa’s food system through low-cost insurance products for smallholders
Making the case for Earth observation data: A case study of the Landsat programme
Leveraging Earth Observation data for Air Quality Monitoring
Meet Joost Teuben: Capacity building expert joins the GEO team as virtual secondee
Meet Guo Man: New agriculture expert joins GEO Secretariat
Earth Observations for Urban Resilience: Takeaways from ICLEI’s 2018 Resilient Cities Congress
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2018 – GEO Land Degradation Neutrality Activity
World Oceans Day 2018 - Using Earth Observations to Protect our Blue Planet
World Environment Day - several GEO activities for the environment!
Interview: GEOSS/HACK 2018 winners design app to track wild fires in Madagascar
Meet James Norris: New disasters expert joins GEO Secretariat
Bringing People Closer to Earth Data: An overview of recent GEOSS Platform upgrades
Armenia benefits from GEO engagement
Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observing System: A European Strategy
More than a workshop - key EO data event approaches 3rd and biggest year
Open Space: The Global Effort for Open Access to Satellite Data
GEO’s Value Highlighted at COP23
Earth Observations: Global Perspectives from the UK
Join in OpenStreetMap GeoWeek - November 12th-17th
SMURBS: SMart URBan Solutions for Air Quality, Disasters and Urban Growth
China’s SASMAC advances regional cooperation on Earth observations
GEONETCast Mexico: US – Mexico Space Cooperation for Disaster Risk Reduction
Automatic Semantic Enrichment for Intelligent Big Earth Observation Databases
Leveraging the Cloud and Earth observations for monitoring development in Africa
Distributed Ledger Technology: Blockchain for shared economy of space
Open population grid data aids ICRC´s crisis response
An eye on Earth: satellite Earth Observation for agriculture insurance
Open Data Areas Alberta – EO for Cumulative Effects and Integrated Resource Management
New leadership revitalizes GEO Health Community of Practice
Blue Planet 3rd Symposium: The role of oceans in Earth’s life-support system
Balkan Peninsula cooperates on Earth Observation services for sustainable development
New report shows how EO data can help to measure the Sendai Framework for DRR
2nd AfriGEOSS Symposium
Perspectives on the Nature of Geospatial Information
Research Dialogue 9
Geneva innovations
Digital Earth Australia: Big Data for a Big Country
#FutureEO
Mapping Nations - The Next Decade
Marine observation - with Frank Muller Karger
Development Seed, "a timely conversation" at the Data Providers Workshop
Understanding changes in cold regions
Atlas of the Human Planet assesses vulnerabilities to disaster
Early Warning at Global Scale
GPSDD announces funding for EO data projects
EO to measure how cities are growing
Padou Lambert uses EO for Ecotourism
OGC - Open Standards for GEO
GEO Value by Francoise Pearlman
Giovanni Rum retires from GEO
GEO BON at CBD COP 13
MYGEOSS
Great Green Wall
Earth Info Day
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