IEEE Committee on Earth Observation

Engineering For Humanity Through GEOSS

Agriculture

GEOSS is established to help farmers, fishers and policymakers maximize productivity.

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Biodiversity

Biological diversity encompasses all of the Earth’s plants, animals and micro-organisms.

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Climate

GEOSS advocates sustained and coordinated climate observing systems.

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Disasters

GEO provides a better understanding of the relationship between natural disasters and climate change.

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Ecosystems

GEO is improving spatial information on ecosystem conditions and trends.

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Energy

Exploiting the full potential of energy resources is of critical important to all countries.

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Health

GEO is working with the Health community to improve the flow of user-friendly environmental data.

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Water

GEOSS improves water resource management through better understanding of the water cycle.

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Weather

GEOSS expands the range of users for weather information and forecast.

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Top Destinations

Researchers working with GEOSS data face the same question on almost every project: which sensor fits the task, and which is the best satellite imagery provider to source it from? Sentinel and Landsat cover a wide range of applications at moderate resolution and no cost, while commercial suppliers such as Sfera Technologies task sub-metre optical, SAR, thermal and hyperspectral acquisitions where public archives fall short on detail or revisit.