scholarly journals Earth Observations and Education for the Sustainable Implementation of the Nexus Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Holm Voigt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
System Of Systems ◽  
Earth Observation ◽  
Observation System ◽  
Earth Observations ◽  
Sustainable Implementation ◽  
Earth Observation System ◽  
Education Needs ◽  
Nexus Conference ◽  
Complex Manner

AbstractWater, energy and food are closely connected sectors which interact in a complex manner. Complex problems which need to be addressed in these sectors require informed decisions. The key to this information are data which need to be easily available to the decision maker. In the context of the Sustainability in the W-E-F Nexus conference May 19-20, 2014, the session on ‘Earth Observations, Monitoring and Modelling for the Sustainable Implementation of the Nexus Approach’ revealed institutional shortcomings and general problems in data provisioning for the water-energy- food (WEF) nexus. Key Findings of the session were that (1) integrative thinking of collaborating institutions is required to address problems in the water-energy-food nexus, (2) comprehensive and coherent data need to be made readily available, potentially through the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and (3) that nexus education needs to be promoted in basic and higher education in order to ensure efficient use of coherent and comprehensive datasets.

scholarly journals Group Pushes for Using Earth Observations in Decision Making

Eos ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy Showstack
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
System Of Systems ◽  
Earth Observation ◽  
Observation System ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Earth Observations ◽  
Earth Observation System

Earth observation "system of systems" could help with disaster resilience, sustainability, and other objectives beneficial to society, according to one organization.

Target Evaluation and Correlation Method (TECM) as an Assessment Approach to Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Epelbaum ◽  
Mo Mansouri ◽  
Alex Gorod ◽  
Brian Sauser ◽  
Alexander Fridman
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Correlation Method ◽  
System Of Systems ◽  
Earth Observation ◽  
Observation System ◽  
Societal Benefit ◽  
Large Scale Network ◽  
Assessment Approach ◽  
Earth Observation System ◽  
Scale Network

The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) is a ten-year-long Implementation Plan, which commenced in 2005 as a group effort by numerous participating countries and organizations to build a large-scale network to effectively monitor and respond to the increasingly complex web of global environmental and socio-economic issues. This paper proposes the Target Evaluation and Correlation Method (TECM) as an assessment approach to GEOSS with its 241 Targets across the nine “Societal Benefit Areas,” along with a method to identify Target Correlation Levels (TCL). Applying TECM allows concluding whether the chosen targets within the GEOSS fall into the domain of System of Systems (SoS), while using TCLs delineates the extent of inclusion for these targets in the form of a system. Furthermore, this research investigates the possible ways of raising the correlation levels of the targets for the cases in which TCLs are low.

Global Earth Observation System of Systems

Insight ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-34
Author(s):  
Lawrence E. McGovern
Keyword(s):  
System Of Systems ◽  
Earth Observation ◽  
Observation System ◽  
Earth Observation System

scholarly journals Sharing Environmental Data through GEOSS

2012 ◽  
pp. 266-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Giuliani ◽  
Nicolas Ray ◽  
Stefan Schwarzer ◽  
Andrea De Bono ◽  
Pascal Peduzzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
System Of Systems ◽  
Earth Observation ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Observation System ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Seamless Integration ◽  
Agreed Framework ◽  
Earth Observation System ◽  
Different Sources

Understanding the complexity of earth-system processes is crucial to convey improved information on the environment to decision-makers and the general public. Addressing this need by sharing environmental data is challenging because it requires a common agreed framework that allows easy and seamless integration of data from different sources. In this regard, the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) portends major benefits through various sharing mechanisms and by giving access to services that could be linked together to process and generate new understandable knowledge and information. Various United Nations projects could greatly benefit from the GEOSS approach.

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