Category:Earth Observations
Updates: June 2015
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Aquifers
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Earth Observations Science Committees/Groups/Missions Grow in Importance
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/grace/ -- http://isdc.gfz-potsdam.de/index.php
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites -- http://ceos.org/ - http://ceos.org/ourwork/workinggroups/wgiss/
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Environmental Security: Earth Science Programs Cut
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Re: funding cuts to NASA's critical Earth science and space technology programs
On May 1, 2015, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Dr. John P. Holdren issued the following statement on proposed funding cuts to NASA's critical Earth science and space technology programs:
"If enacted, the NASA authorization bill headed to the House floor later this month would do serious damage to the Nation’s space program, as well as to Earth-observation and Earth-science programs essential for predicting, preparing for, and minimizing the damage from disasters both natural and human-induced.
The House bill would also gut the NASA “mission to planet Earth”—the satellite observations and related research that provide key measurements and insights relevant to forecasting and tracking hurricanes, fighting wildfires, observing the state of the world’s farms and forests, mapping the extent of droughts, measuring the stocks of groundwater, and monitoring the likelihood of landslides. The draconian cuts in the House bill would also delay advances in our ability to research and prepare for volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis and blind us to changes in the Earth’s oceans and ice sheets that can be discerned only from space."
New Definitions of National Security
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http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now
https://twitter.com/hashtag/EarthRightNow?src=hash
http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/index.html
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December 2014
Historic Orbiting Carbon Observatory Satellite Sends Back Most Detailed CO2 View Ever / Dec 18, 2014
Initial OCO-2 data available in March for scientists and public to download and explore
Phys.org - Discovery - Weather - Nature
Sample Data -- OCO-2 Data Portal
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November
Counting carbon over Southern California - OCO-2 at work
October
September
August
August 13th/Climate Central news report of first data
July 2 2014
- Watching the Planet Breathe
NASA Launches New Carbon-Sensing Mission to Monitor Earth’s 'Breathing'
"Climate change is the challenge of our generation," says NASA Administrator Charles Bolden
- Follow the OCO-2 Mission
Follow the tweets of the OCO-2 bird
Follow the NASA climate blog
http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105/ -- http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/
"Game changing" science Unraveling mysteries
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- Climate Change, Global Warming
Observing Global Warming with #OCO-2
Historic launch #PlanetCitizen mission to study #EarthsAtmosphere
"First Light!" [1] [2] OCO-2 announces 'We have data!'
OCO-2 tweets - https://twitter.com/IamOCO2
What monitoring a potential existential crisis looks like...spectra from #OCO-2 #Earth360
Earth observing satellites, Orbiting Carbon Observatory the "Afternoon Constellation", the "A-Train" joined by #OCO-2 newly launched and historic in its mission to study global warming
"Watching the Earth Breathe from Space" [3] [4] [5] [6]
About the Earth Observatory Mission
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With the launch of OCO-2, a "game changer", the data of #Earth360 will grow in unprecedented ways
#Earthdata enables informed decisions and policy
"You can manage only what you can measure"
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Eyes on the Earth [7] [8] [9] [10]
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eGY -- electronic Geophysical Year / http://www.egy.org/ -- An Earth and Space Science Information Commons Initiative: International Co-operation for Open Access to Data
GEO -- Group on Earth Observations / http://www.earthobservations.org/index.php -- Established in 2005, GEO is a voluntary partnership of governments and organizations that envisions “a future wherein decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations and information.”
CEOS -- Committee On Earth Observation Satellites / http://ceos.org/ -- 2015 - CEOS was established in September, 1984 in response to a recommendation from a Panel of Experts on Remote Sensing from Space and set up under the aegis of the G7 Economic Summit of Industrial Nations Working Group on Growth, Technology, and Employment.
This Panel recognized the multidisciplinary nature of space-based Earth observations and the value of coordinating international Earth observation efforts to benefit society. Accordingly, the original function of CEOS was to coordinate and harmonize Earth observations to make it easier for the user community to access and use data. CEOS initially focused on interoperability, common data formats, the inter-calibration of instruments, and common validation and inter-comparison of products. However, over time, the circumstances surrounding the collection and use of space-based Earth observations have changed.
- The number of Earth-observing satellites has vastly increased.
- Onboard instruments are more complex and are capable of collecting new types of data in ever-growing volumes.
- The user community has expanded and become more diverse as different data types become available and new applications for Earth observations are developed.
Users have become more organized, forming several international bodies that coordinate and levy Earth observation requirements.
CEOS WGISS -- Committee On Earth Observation Satellites / http://ceos.org/ourwork/workinggroups/wgiss/ -- Working Group on Information Systems and Services - WGISS stimulates, coordinates, monitors, and promotes collaboration on the development of the systems and services that manage and supply satellite Earth observation (EO) data and information.
CEOS IDN -- Committee On Earth Observation Satellites
International Directory Network (IDN)
GCMD -- Global Change Master Directory
DIF -- DIF Writer's Guide
- GCMD's Science Keywords and Associated Directory Keywords
- GCMD's docBuilder Tool
GGOS -- GGOS at the GFZ Potsdam
IVOA -- International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA)
- IVOA: Documents and Standards
- IVOA: Semantics Working Group
DLR -- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
JPL --Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology
PO.DAAC -- Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center PO.DAAC
INDIGO -- Inter-service Data Integration for Geodetic Operations
UTCSR -- University of Texas at Austin / Center for Space Research
IPG -- Institut für Planetare Geodäsie
DGFI -- Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut
IAG -- IAG Services
ICGEM -- International Centre for Global Earth Models
PV 2007 -- PV 2007: Proceedings and Results
Paper: The ISDC concept for long-term sustainability of geoscience data and information
Presentation: The ISDC concept for long-term sustainability of geoscience data and information
IUGG 2007 -- Proceedings of IUGG XXIV General Assembly / UNION SYMPOSIA Proceedings
- Presentation: Geoscience Information Systems and Interoperable Catalog and Data Access Services for Global Distributed Gravity Field Data
VOiG -- Virtual Observatories in Geosciences (VOIG) Conference 2007
- VOiG WIKI
- VOiG WIKI: Conference Agenda und Proceedings
- Presentation: Networking online geodata sources using Sensor Web Enablement techniques for the creation of Virtual Observatories in Geosciences
IGHW -- INTERNATIONAL GEOHAZARDS
- Abstract: Geoscience Information Systems and Interoperable Catalog and Data Access Services for Global Distributed Data Sources
- Poster: Geoscience Information Systems and Interoperable Catalog and Data Access Services for Global Distributed Data Sources
GEOTECHNOLOGIEN / Publication: Science Reports
- Science Report: Observation of the System Earth from Space, Status Seminar, Munich, 2003
- R&D-Programme: Observation of the System Earth from Space, Status Seminar, Bonn, 2006: Implementing modern data dissemination concepts in the ISDC Portal
- R&D-Programme: Observation of the System Earth from Space, Status Seminar, Bonn, 2006: The integration of CHAMP and GRACE products in the new ISDC Portal
Subcategories
This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.
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Pages in category "Earth Observations"
The following 167 pages are in this category, out of 167 total.
- Biodiversity
- Earth Law
- Earth Science
- Ecology Studies
- Environmental Full-cost Accounting
- Environmental Security, National Security
- EOS eco Operating System
- Externalities
- Land Ethic
- New Space
- Planet Citizen
- Planet Scientist
- Sustainability
- Sustainability Policies
- ThinBlueLayer
- Atmospheric Science
- Biogeosciences
- Climate Change
- Cryosphere
- Geophysics and Geochemistry
- Mineralogy
- Geology
- Geophysics
- Hydrology
- Natural Resources
- Ocean Science
- Planetary Science
- Space Science and Space Physics