How do you inspire the CEOS community to go forward?

Gilberto Camara(INPE)2010 CEOS Chair

123rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 2009

A Vision for CEOS

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Working Groups(WGISS, WGEdu, WGCV)

Constellations andData Democracy

Task Forces

CEOS Community

Space Agencies and Decision-Making

GEO, Scientific Community, Society

Forty years ago, in 1969, our space program reached the moon.

Where will we be in 2050?

"We went to explore the Moon, and in fact discovered the Earth." Eugene Cernan

“Climate change changes everything. It will define a new human society”

“Scientists have models for estimating the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere when a given plot of land is razed. This information can now be extracted fairly accurately from satellite images.

Access to information will be critical. A few satellites can cover the entire globe, but there needs to be a system in place to ensure their images are readily available to everyone who needs them. Brazil has set an important precedent by making its Earth-observation data available, and the rest of the world should follow suit.”

The trend towards open access data polices will enable Global Earth Observation System of Systems to succeed

The Forest Carbon Tracking task should lead to a Global Forest Information System

LBA tower in Amazonia

23/4/2007 CEOS Constellation, Florianopolis 10Ocean surface topography constellation

The constellations are working and should be maintained

We know earth observation data is essential for the planet…

… but data democracy needs to reach the masses

What about water-related tasks in CEOS?

“It is in our power to eradicate poverty by 2050; it is in our power to eradicate disease by 2050; but it is also in our

power to destroy ourselves by 2050.”

CEOS has the power to change the perspective our society has about the space program