GEO Global Water Sustainability
GEOGLOWSFlagshipAddresses global water sustainability through Earth observation-based solutions.
Water and Land Sustainability involves examining the interactions and interdependencies between water and land to promote their sustainable use, ensuring long-term resource availability and security.
GEO is uniquely positioned to monitor changes in water quality and quantity, land cover, and land use; track pollution from land to freshwater and marine systems; observe coastal erosion; and support holistic decision-making through comprehensive data that enhances land and water sustainability.
Through integrated Earth Intelligence solutions, GEO activities such as GEO-LDN, Earth Observations for Global Typical Karst, Aquawatch and GEO Blue Planet support:
Addresses global water sustainability through Earth observation-based solutions.
Provides tools and data to support global efforts in achieving land degradation neutrality.
Advances Earth observations for monitoring and managing karst ecosystems.
Focuses on global water quality monitoring and management.
Tracks environmental impacts of mining operations.
Focuses on ocean and coastal observations to support sustainable use.
This work aligns with:
GEO will advance tools for water monitoring, promote innovative solutions like AI-driven analytics for pollution control, and integrate community-based approaches to foster global water sustainability.
Integrates Earth observations for sustainable resource management.
Focuses on Earth observations for cryosphere monitoring and research.
Hydrometeorological data in Africa should be publicly available, open, and free, but there is a lack of resources to realize this.
Advances Earth observations for monitoring mountain ecosystems.
Improves monitoring and management of global wetlands.
Enhances wildfire monitoring and risk assessment using Earth observations.
Enhances disaster resilience through Earth observations.
Uses Earth observations for enhancing security applications.
GEO-IA contributes to a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable approach to Earth observation initiatives that benefit Indigenous communities, the scientific community, and global efforts to harmoniously coexist with our planet.
An step toward realizing the massive untapped potential for GEO and GEO Youth to mutually benefit from critical, deliberate engagement with one another.
An international community focused on the value and socioeconomic impacts of geospatial information for decision-making
Provides accessible Earth observation data to support sustainable development in Africa.
Advancing and operationalizing Digital Earth, at an initial stage, through the Earth Observation (EO) Data Cubes efforts, with a focus on implementing global principles in local contexts
Provides tailored Earth observation solutions for Pacific Island nations.
Leverages Earth observations to support achievement of the SDGs.