Break-out Session: Health, Energy, Ecosystems, Biodiversity

General Remarks

General comments

• Poor representatitivity of the whole communities in the different domains. May be a need from GEOSEC to bring the different CoP concerned in the debates

• Coherence between Strategic Targets and Definitions

• Wording problem:

– Definition is not a good term

– Proposal: scope, aim, vision

– Deliverable project oriented term ambiguity

• Concern about the engagement on the deliverables

• DSs need to integrate all cross-cuting issues: architecture, data, users, capacity building, science

• WP 2009-2011 tasks participants are lost

GEO Work Plan Symposium 2011

Day 3

Information ServicesDS-07

DS-07 Energy and Geo-Resources Management

Definition (Scope or Aim or Vision)• Facilitate/encourage significant increase the use of Earth

observations by all sectors (biomass, fossils, geothermal, hydropower, nuclear, ocean, solar and wind).

• Develop mapping of energy potential. • Explore tools and services for energy management, including

balance between energy demand and supply as well as development of alternative energy scenarios.

• Facilitate the safe, efficient and affordable development and operation of existing and new energy resources (Energy Strategic Target).

Deliverables

1. A global set of data, tools and services for the resource assessment, monitoring and forecasting of primary energy and its uses (e.g. map user needs for renewable energy datasets; develop products required to assess countries' potential for energy production; foster the use of Earth observations in energy-policy planning)

Priority Actions: – Continue the work of identifying the users’ needs– Identify and give access to the data required (interoperability, …)– Gap analysis– Develop prototype services– Generalize prototypes– Set up the deliverable

Leads (Members and/or Organizations, tentative):

DLR, MINES ParisTech, IRENA ?

Related 2009-2011 Work Plan Progress

(based on input/slides from participants)

• ENDORSE (FP7 Project) ENergy DOwnstReam SErvices - Providing energy components for GMES

• BioEnergy Atlas for Africa• …• …

ENDORSE Concept

• user-driven development of new, and/or enhancement of existing, downstream services in renewable energies

• regional services for sun, wind, and biomass, electricity grid management and building

• development of sustainable and transferable downstream services.

ENDORSE

• Based on proven facts, the ENDORSE Consortium states that the energy community is mature enough to exploit EO data in an efficient, replicable and sustainable manner, especially with the advent of stable and reliable data streams from the GMES Core Services: MACC for irradiance and other atmosphere-related parameters, SAFER for defining hazardous areas, and Geoland 2 for data on land use, hydrography, protected areas, inhabited areas and buildings.

• GEOSS catalogues are an entry point to access other EO-derived data that can be necessary. GEOSS results on standards, tools, and best practices in service architecture, data and services interoperability, will be exploited.

Towards a Bioenergy Atlas

for Africa

Addis Ababa 22.-23. October

2010

BioEnergy Atlas for Africa

• Overall objectives

Contribute to the sustainable utilization of bioenergy resources for Africa‘s development

• Specific objective

The bioenergy atlas for Africa provides information (on quantity, distribution, usage, quality) to facilitate informed decision making for the sustainable use of bioenergy resources.

BioEnergy Atlas for Africa

• Planned results

Existing products and initiatives are assessed and gaps evaluated

Concept for the Atlas developed

The interactive platform is established

The Atlas is firmly linked to GEO/GEOSS and other regional/international initiatives

• Bioenergy Atlas – functions:

Inform (potential, constraints)

Disseminate (best practices in Africa, and global)

Evaluate (projections, scenarios)

• Leads: South Africa, Brazil, RCMRD, Austria

Biomass Evaluation

Source: IIASA

Inclusion of New Proposals (if any)

• ENDORSE• BioEnergy Atlas for Africa• EO-MINERS• …

Issues and Gaps

• Organizing the project• Funding• International communication• Embed international bodies• Completeness of the available data• Engaging stakeholders

• Historical data• Availability of privately owned data