Presentation of Dr. Barbara Ryan [Secretariat Director of the Intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations] at the OECD event "Water Policy in the Age of Big Data on 21 September 2015.
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Barbara Ryan @OECD - 21 Sept 2015 - Water Policy in the Age of Big Data
1. Flood or Drought (of Data)?
OECD Water Policy in the Age of Big Data
Paris, France
21 September 2015
Barbara J. Ryan
Director, GEO Secretariat
Geneva, Switzerland
10. More Water Information
(Austria, EC, Germany, Japan, USA,
CEOS, ESA, WCRP, WMO)
* Global high-res precipitation
datasets 1979-2010
* New SMOS products & soil
moisture datasets 1978-2010
* Satellite data validation
* Global Drought Information
System underway
* Asian/African Water Cycle
Initiative (AWCI)
Soil Moisture (SMOS, ESA)
Precip
11. GEOSS Implementation Requires:
Data Sharing Principles
• Full and Open Exchange of Data
• Data and Products at Minimum Time Delay
and at Minimum Cost
• Free of Charge or Cost of Reproduction
12.
13. GEOSS Resources
About 45 brokered data
providers
.. .
More than 50 Million accessible
resources (mix of data collections
and datasets)
.. .
Publish
Contain
More than 174 Million assets
(mix of satellite scenes, raingage,
streamgage records, etc.)
.. .
16. 1. Uncertainty over continuity of observations
2. Large spatial and temporal gaps in specific data sets
3. Limited access to data and associated benefits in developing
world
4. Inadequate data integration and interoperability
5. Lack of relevant processing systems to transform data into
useful information
6. Inadequate user involvement
7. Eroding or little technical infrastructure in many parts of the
world
GEOSS Targeted Gaps
17. Countries have borders; Earth
observations don’t.
B. Ryan
Modified from advertisement in NY Times,
11 September 2015
18. 18
Mexico City Ministerial Summit
and GEO-XII
GEO Week
9-13 November 2015
Mexico City
Barbara Ryan – bryan@geosec.org
www.earthobservations.org