Visor Territorial COVID-19 Chile

Miércoles, 29 Abril 2020 03:51 

Bienes Nacionales anuncia Visor Territorial COVID-19 abierto a la ciudadanía

Escrito por  IDE Chile

La plataforma ciudadana se desarrolla gracias al trabajado mancomunado entre la Secretaría Ejecutiva del Sistema Nacional de Coordinación de Información Territorial (SNIT) y las distintas instituciones que forman parte del Grupo de Trabajo Multisectorial para la Información del Territorio en la Gestión de Emergencias, Desastres y Catástrofes.

En el marco del compromiso adquirido con la Mesa Social COVID-19 y con el objetivo de facilitar el acceso a la información disponible sobre el COVID-19 en nuestro país, el ministro del Interior, Gonzalo Blumel, y el ministro de Bienes Nacionales, Julio Isamit, anunciaron el pasado 23 de abril en La Moneda, un Visor Territorial abierto a la ciudadania con toda la información oficial del Ministerio de Salud, al que se podrá acceder desde el sitio oficial del gobierno gob.cl y desde la web del ministerio bienesnacionales.cl

“Queremos facilitarle el acceso a todos los ciudadanos que requieran saber sobre el COVID-19 en nuestro país. Sabemos que es clave para la toma de las decisiones y para el cuidado de todos. Estamos dando cumplimiento a uno de los compromisos adquiridos con la Mesa Social COVID-19, quienes valoraron mucho estas plataformas”, dijo el ministro Gonzalo Blumel.

En esa línea, el ministro de Bienes Nacionales, Julio Isamit, señaló que “sabemos que los chilenos están muy preocupados por esta emergencia sanitaria, y para que tengamos mayor información y podamos tomar mejores decisiones, desde Bienes Nacionales hemos preparado este visor territorial que permitirá presentar de manera georreferenciada toda la información del Ministerio de Salud, a nivel nacional, regional y comunal”.

“Hemos seguido el modelo de otras plataformas internacionales altamente valoradas por la ciudadanía, porque estamos convencidos, que si las personas cuentan con mayor información, podrán tomar mejores decisiones, podrán ser más responsables, más solidarios y, en definitiva, ayudar a cuidarnos entre todos”, dijo.

Cabe destacar que la generación de este Visor Territorial COVID-19 obecede al trabajo mancomunado entre la Secretaría Ejecutiva del Sistema Nacional de Coordinación de Información Territorial (SNIT) y las instituciones que forman parte del Grupo de Trabajo Multisectorial para la Información del Territorio en la Gestión de Emergencias, Desastres y Catástrofes, el cual es coordinado por esta Secretaría, dependiente del Ministerio de Bienes Nacionales.

Visor Territorial COVID-19

El Visor Territorial COVID-19 es abierto a la ciudadanía y contiene la siguiente información:

• Cuadros con estadísticas del país y por región: se muestra un panel con datos de casos totales confirmados, aquellos nuevos casos del día, cantidad de pacientes críticos, cantidad de pacientes fallecidos, cantidad de pacientes recuperados y exámenes total realizados. Además, se muestra un gráfico con el avance diario por región de los casos confirmados, pacientes fallecidos, exámenes realizados, nuevos casos y aquellos que están hospitalizados. Esto se actualiza en base al informe diario del Ministerio de Salud.
• Casos activos por comuna: con puntos de color rojo se muestra la cantidad total de contagiados activos de cada comuna. Este dato se obtiene del informe epidemiológico que se presenta cada 48 horas aproximadamente.
• Casos activos por 100.000 habitantes, por comuna: se despliega una capa con distintos tonos de azul, que muestra la tasa de casos activos por 100.000 habitantes por comuna. Este indicador sirve para que sean comparables las comunas de mayor población con las más pequeñas.
• Comunas en cuarentena: con una capa color verde oscuro, se muestra aquellas comunas que estén en cuarentena (o partes de ellas), especificándose en el mapa qué parte de la comuna se ve afectada.
• Comunas con cordón sanitario: con una capa morada, se muestra las comunas sujetas a cordón sanitario.
• Gráficos de avances diarios: el visor también permite mostrar el avance diario de estas estadísticas. Este nivel de detalle, se tiene para cada región en casos confirmados, pacientes fallecidos, exámenes realizados, nuevos casos y aquellas personas que se encuentran en camas de la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos (UCI). Además, se tiene información a nivel regional de los casos activos, actualizados cada 24 horas según el Informe de Coronavirus que emite el Ministerio de Salud.

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Instituciones públicas actualizan más de 45 capas en el Centro de Descarga de IDE Chile

Jueves, 28 Mayo 2020 08:39 
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A través de un trabajo continuo, las instituciones que forman parte de SNIT - IDE Chile, publican y actualizan sus datos. Mediante el presente artículo se informa a la comunidad, las últimas capas y recursos de información que se encuentran disponibles.

Para dar acceso oportuno a la información que generan las diferentes instituciones públicas del país, se ha llevado a cabo una actualización del Centro de Descargas de IDE Chile, el que actualmente cuenta con variada información para la descarga directa en diferentes formatos. Esta herramienta es el resultado del trabajo coordinado entre las instituciones públicas en materia de información geográfica y la Secretaría Ejecutiva SNIT.

Entre la información recientemente actualizada se encuentran:

-Ministerio de Vivienda y Urbanismo: Actualización de Instrumentos de Planificación Territorial y de Catastro de Campamentos.

-Ministerio de Educación: Actualiza la información de Establecimientos de Educación Escolar.

-SUBPESCA: Actualización de información referida a Áreas apropiadas para el ejercicio de la acuicultura (A.A.A), Acuicultura en AMERB, Áreas de Manejo de Recursos Bentónicos (AMERB), Áreas Marinas Protegidas, Concesiones de Acuicultura, Espacios Costeros Marinos para Pueblos Originarios (ECMPO), Planes de Manejo de Recursos Bentónicos y Macrozonas Sanitarias.

-SUBDERE: Actualización de la información de Municipios.

-DIFROL: Actualiza la información de Límite Internacional en su versión 3.1.

Para conocer el repositorio de datos descargables, puede visitar el Centro de Descargas IDE Chile a través de la siguiente dirección:

http://www.ide.cl/index.php/informacion-territorial/descargar-informacion-territorial

CEPAL y UN-GGIM Américas, realizan seminario virtual respecto de estrategias para dar una respuesta geoespacial en las Américas, en momentos de pandemia por el COVID-19

Miércoles, 27 Mayo 2020 14:48 

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El pasado 15 de mayo la Secretaria Ejecutiva del SNIT, Macarena Pérez, participó del seminario virtual “Covid-19: Estrategias para dar una respuesta geoespacial en las Américas”. Actividad que se enmarca en una serie de convocatorias de las diferentes Comisiones Económicas Regionales, los Comité Regionales de UN-GGIM y otras partes interesadas, para ayudar a iniciar una discusión global, que permita explorar la influencia y el impacto de la respuesta de los datos geoespaciales en la pandemia.

La pandemia del COVID-19, su propagación global y la necesidad sin precedentes de comprender esa propagación y a los afectados, ilustra claramente la importancia y el potencial de la información geoespacial para que los gobiernos, los tomadores de decisiones, los que deben responder primero, y para que el público en general, tomen decisiones informadas. Mientras que la necesidad por información geoespacial confiable y precisa ha sido reconocida por las agendas globales de desarrollo, incluyendo la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, el Marco de Sendai y otros, en esta crisis de salud global hay una necesidad crítica y urgente para los Estados Miembros de actuar ahora, para recolectar, analizar y difundir los datos que apoyan la toma de decisiones.

Varios Estados Miembros y la comunidad internacional, han aprovechado las capacidades de la información geoespacial para apoyar y comunicar los esfuerzos claves de respuesta. Sin embargo, esta respuesta ha sido desigual y muchos países se han quedado atrás. Una respuesta política más estructurada y coordinada, como lo recomienda la OMS, las Naciones Unidas y otras instituciones de política multilateral, se ve posiblemente como el camino más prometedor para salir de una crisis inminente.

Como ejemplo, la información geoespacial y tecnologías habilitadoras han sido el corazón de numerosos paneles de visualización de información, que se han establecido para apoyar la medición y el monitoreo de la pandemia a nivel mundial. Estos paneles de visualización, incluidos los de fuentes como la OMS y la Universidad Johns Hopkins, demuestran que cuando la dimensión geoespacial es considerada, la información se puede transmitir de manera más clara y útil que solo con datos estadísticos. Esto requiere varios componentes claves, incluyendo la disponibilidad y accesibilidad de la información geoespacial, lo cual puede ser integrado con estadísticas que luego son desagregadas por edad, género, demografía y unidades administrativas, ya sea a nivel local, nacional o global. Todo esto va a depender de la tecnología disponible y las habilidades técnicas para desarrollar e implementar un panel de visualización interactivo, entre otros asuntos.

A través de este seminario se proporcionó  a los Estados Miembros y partes interesadas, la instrucción y la oportunidad de compartir y colaborar sus métodos, procedimientos, tecnologías y datos geoespaciales en la respuesta al COVID-19. Esto, con la intención de profundizar la colaboración y fomentar el intercambio de conocimientos, para permitir a los Estados Miembros, las Naciones Unidas, sus Comisiones Regionales, los Comités Regionales de UN-GGIM y otros organismos; organizaciones internacionales, academia y sector privado, utilizar la información geoespacial para enfrentar el desafío que supone el COVID-19.

Para acceder a las presentaciones realizadas en este seminario, visita el siguiente vínculo: https://www.cepal.org/es/eventos/seminario-virtual-covid-19-estrategias-respuesta-geoespacial-americas.

UNCCD and GEO Land Degradation Neutrality (GEO LDN)

It takes the right information to build back better – Highlights from the UNCCD and GEO Land Degradation Neutrality (GEO LDN) Workshop

Blog / May 18, 2020

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From above, the Konsen Plateau in eastern Hokkaido, Japan offers a remarkable sight: a massive grid that spreads across the rural landscape like a checkerboard. The strips are forested windbreaks—180-meter (590-foot) wide rows of coniferous trees that help shelter grasslands and animals from harsh weather. Image Credit: Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8.

This post has been adapted from UNCCD. Read the original article here.

With the right information about land, and the right tools to use it, countries can work together with Earth observation organizations to “build back better” after the COVID-19 pandemic. But collaboration between data experts and data users is needed to make sure the information is right. 

That’s why over 100 decision makers joined a Data Quality Standards Workshop hosted virtually by the GEO LDN Initiative and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) last week.  

The idea is straightforward – if we can optimize and share quality information on what we do and where, we can bring land back into balance. In turn, this can help us bring nature, climate and the people’s needs, such as food and energy, into balance. And in the process, we can stabilize the primary transmission pathway for emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19, which is land use change. 

But getting this done requires unprecedented cooperation among the many providers and many users of that information. In the dedicated Workshop, those end users provided key inputs on improving the quality of data used to monitor land.

The good news is the necessary framework for success is in place. In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals, officially known as the Sustainable Development Goals, that have the power to create a better world. Under Goal 15 (Life on Land) is SDG Target 15.3 on land degradation neutrality, where countries are striving to avoid, reduce and reverse land degradation. To date, 123 countries are actively engaged and in 2019, over 140 countries reported on this target in a harmonized way for the first time. 

Enhancing the monitoring data so that countries can take effective action has been taken on by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), an intergovernmental body that brings countries and the major data providers together to solve Earth information challenges. 

With the GEO LDN Initiative, they have taken on one of the most difficult challenges countries face: harmonizing the myriad of data options and analytical tools into a work stream that is open to all (efficiency and flexibility), capable of meeting the needs of countries in a consistent way (comparability), and capable of empowering countries in the application of complex data sets (national ownership). Thanks to a timely pledge from the government of Germany, data providers have collaboratively contributed to a set of minimum data quality standards, and these are now being previewed by the policy makers in countries – the ultimate end users of the data. 

The countries and organizations collaborating on the GEO LDN Initiative have reached a critical juncture in producing a major upgrade. Turning this aspiration into action means doing the right things in the right places at the right scale; a holistic approach on how we use and manage land in order for the world to build back better.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, in his International Mother Earth Day message, summarized it best: “We need to turn the recovery into a real opportunity to do things right for the future.” 

Watch the recording here:

Learn more:

GEO Partnership Launches LDN Initiative to Link Global and Local Data for SDG Monitoring

Land Degradation Neutrality. Why it matters, how it's done

Scientific Conceptual Framework for Land Degradation Neutrality

GEOGLAM and COVID-19

Responding to an emerging food security emergency

Blog / GEOGLAM Secretariat / May 7, 2020

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The world is currently facing one of the greatest food emergencies in more than a generation. Globally there is already a high level of food insecurity, with challenges associated with the world’s changing weather and climate conditions. These include everything from floods to drought to one of the worst wave of locusts in Africa in many years. These challenges are not unusual and to some extent occur every year.

What is different in 2020 is the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the world’s food supply. Measures to slow the spread of the virus are affecting the food supply chain in many ways including the availability of inputs, labour, transport, and cross-border trade. COVID-19 is predicted to amplify the risks already facing the world’s 800 million hungry people. In fact, the World Food Programme has estimated that COVID-19 could almost double the number of people facing acute food shortages in middle and low-income countries by the end of the year. GEO is responding to this threat through its flagship initiative, the GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM).

GEOGLAM is helping to increase market transparency and improve food security by producing timely and actionable information on agricultural conditions and outlooks of production at national, regional, and global scales. It achieves this by strengthening the international community’s capacity to utilize coordinated, comprehensive, and sustained Earth observations. GEOGLAM was launched in 2011 by the G20 Ministers of Agriculture and has been actively supporting countries for much of the past decade.

GEOGLAM has been providing monthly global Crop Monitors featuring near real-time information on crop conditions.

For major food exporting nations, the Crop Monitor for the Agricultural Monitoring Information System (AMIS) is available to promote transparency and policy coordination in international food markets and helps to prevent unexpected price hikes. The May AMIS Crop Monitor indicates that current global supplies of staples such as maize, wheat are rice are adequate and it will be important to continue to monitor as the growing seasons progress.  

View the latest conditions in the Crop Monitor for May 2020 here.

For those food insecure regions of the world, the Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) reveals crop conditions for key staple crops and provides early warning of potential impacts to crop production that may affect food supply and access for the most vulnerable populations. GEOGLAM has also worked with several nations to build their own national Crop Monitors, helping improve food security decision making with more reliable and science-driven information. Together, these GEOGLAM activities have had a tremendous impact on global coordination on food security reporting and monitoring.

Providing and maintaining objective and transparent information on global agriculture in near real time has never been so critical as in the present. The May AMIS Crop Monitor indicates that current global supplies of staples such as maize, wheat are rice are adequate.  However, the COVID-19 pandemic poses a credible and mounting threat to food security at the local level, which requires timely decisions and interventions to mitigate the crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic is predicted to exacerbate already existing food crises and drive worsening food insecurity among vulnerable populations. In countries dependent on humanitarian and development aid, the sudden diversion of funds to address the COVID-19 crisis will impact food aid distribution  and it will be important to continue to monitor as the growing seasons progress.

Aerial photograph of crop lands and river, Indonesia.

Agricultural production will be impacted as transport restrictions and quarantine measures are expected to impede farmers’ access to inputs and markets and could cause widespread labor shortages, and likely reduce small-scale farmers’ ability to plant. In labour intensive agricultural production systems, a decrease in the labor supply could lead to reduced planted areas and limited crop management, ultimately resulting in reduced harvests. In countries where farm inputs are subsidized by the government, the crisis may create a reduction or delay in the distribution of resources. Blockages in transport routes will adversely impact regional and cross-border trade, creating problems for import-dependent countries.

The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor community will be monitoring crop conditions and providing sufficient early warning throughout this crisis and it will be important to continue to monitor as the growing seasons progresses.  Reliable and early information will help decision makers in AMIS countries, the International Community and National governments address the looming food shortages and will allow for appropriate actions in case of any major production shortfalls that could further exasperate the prevailing difficult situations in many countries.

For more information about GEOGLAM visit the website here.

Learn more about the GEO Community Response to COVID-19 here.

Additional resources on Food Security and COVID-19:

World Food Programme

Food and Agriculture Organization

Food Security Cluster

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GEO GNOME - Observación de los Sistemas de Montaña

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The Group on Earth Observations Global Network for Observations and Information in Mountain Environments (GEO GNOME) is a GEO Work Programme Initiative that seeks to connect and facilitate access to diverse sources of mountain observation data and information regarding drivers, conditions, and trends in biophysical and socio-economic processes of change at different scales.

GEO GNOME is co-led by the MRI and the National Research Council of Italy.

Upcoming Events and Activities

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GEO GNOME at GEO BON Open Science Conference and All Hands Meeting | Leipzig, Germany | 6-10 July 2020 | TBC

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GEO GNOME at GEO Week | Porth Elizabeth, South-Africa | 2 - 6 November 2020

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EO4SDG: Earth Observation Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Communities

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New deadline for submitting your application: 31 May 2020

The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and UN-Habitat are building an “Earth Observation Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Communities” Programme designed to support UN Member States, including cities, in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 to “make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable,” and to implement the New Urban Agenda (NUA) through sustained utilization of Earth observation (EO) data and applications.

The Programme aims to develop a customizable and continually updated toolkit on the integration of Earth observation and geospatial information into the urban monitoring and reporting processes on SDG targets and indicators based on inputs from UN Member States and cities.

The toolkit, developed through a consultative process with countries and cities, will complement guidance published by UN-Habitat, and will be produced in conjunction with UN-Habitat and a selected number of regionally representative countries and cities. It will define needs, data requirements, and provide practical guidance on the integration of remotely sensed and ground-based EO data with national statistics, socioeconomic data, and other, ancillary information to help countries monitor, report, and drive progress on SDG 11 and the NUA. The “EO Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Communities” Programme will facilitate knowledge sharing, connect national, sub-national, and city experiences, and foster understanding between technical analysts and decision makers regarding the role and potential contributions of EO in support of SDG 11 and the NUA.

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Read programme details here

Key areas will include but will not be limited to: monitoring urban expansion and densification, tracking accessibility to public transport, taking stock of open public spaces and their distributions across urban extents, mapping slums, informal settlements and inadequate housing conditions, assessing enviro-climatic conditions and spatial typology as well as urban vulnerabilities, and reducing the adverse per capita environmental impacts of cities, including air quality.

The programme will illustrate guidance and use cases on how EO technologies and advances in cloud computing platforms are applied to enable fast and cost effective access to, and use of, EO by countries, cities, and local communities. Special emphasis will be applied to analysis ready data, open data cubes, training data sets and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques to harness EO for decision makers.

GEO Members, and interested cities from Member countries, are invited to contribute to the design and implementation of this toolkit, in accordance with their needs and priorities. A selected list of regionally representative countries, and interested cities from those countries, will participate in a Steering Committee that will serve for a period of one year, with the possibility for renewal. The Steering Committee, consisting of the selected countries and cities from those countries, UN-Habitat, EO providers, and representatives of GEO urban-related activities, will meet (in person or virtually) as needed, and consult electronically between meetings. The participating countries and cities will act as case studies and demonstration pilots to showcase how the toolkit is used to support their monitoring, reporting, and planning activities in relation to SDG 11, the NUA and other, identified urban-related priorities.

Becoming part of the “EO Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Communities” Programme will contribute to the expedited use of EO data, applications, and tools and their integration with statistical and other data sources, with the ultimate goal of accelerated monitoring of trends at the city/urban, national, regional, and global levels. 

Additional benefits to individuals and organizations include:

• Joining a global network of experts and practitioners from national/ sub-national, regional or thematic initiatives, where methods, lessons learned, good practices, and experiences in geospatial information and EO-integrated SDG efforts of relevance to SDG 11 and the NUA can be shared;
• Helping drive progress towards urban sustainability in your country and cities that choose to support the programme;
• Working at a national level to coordinate activities and ensure communication and collaboration around the national urban agenda and associated priorities;
• Receiving direct technical support and capacity development from GEO, UN-Habitat, and EO providers (Space Agencies), including on the replication of global approaches using local datasets to support their monitoring, reporting, and planning activities in relation to SDG 11 and the NUA,
• Addressing the GEO Plenary with illustrations of end-to-end applications of EO in country and city use cases; and,
• Becoming a global reference point and “go to” place for city to city and country to country learning.

To learn more about the programme, including assessment criteria and full details on how to join, please download the Application Form here.

Please send your applications to: Dr. Argyro Kavvada secretariat@eo4sdg.org and Mr. Steven Ramage, sramage@geosec.org by 31 May, 2020.

Webinar - NextGEOSS Data Hub and Platform

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DURING THIS FREE WEBINAR YOU WILL LEARN:

• About NextGEOSS data hub and platform
• OpenSearch API for Earth observations and auxiliary data
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• How can you benefit from these resources - NextEOS

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About Your Presenters

Marie-Francoise Voidrot is responsible for planning and managing interoperability initiatives such as testbeds, pilots and interoperability experiments with an emphasis on activities in Europe. Prior to joining OGC, Mrs Voidrot was Senior Project Manager for numerous meteorological information systems with Meteo-France for Meteo-France but also for major customers in spatial, defense or aeronautical activities.  Hence, she brings a global end to end view of the information systems from production to a large variety of activities. Since 2009 she has also served as member company representative to the OGC and as a co chair of the MetOcean Domain Working Group contributing to the connection between the Met Ocean communities and OGC standards experts. She holds a MS in Informatics from the Ecole Centrale Paris and a MS in Meteorology from the Ecole Nationale de la Meteorologie (French National School in Meteorology) As part of her MS in informatics, she worked on multidimensional data visualisation at the Space Science and Engineering Center in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Koushik Panda is an International professional with 10+ years of experience in the field of Technology, holding a degree in Business (MBA from TheLisbonMBA - Nova School of Business and Economics , Catolica Lisbon and MIT Sloan) and Information Technology (IT). Koushik is currently working in a Space Company in Portugal to bring together science , technology and software to build innovative solutions in the field of Earth Observations while playing crucial roles in Project Management, Business Development , Product Development and DevOps evangelism. He has experience in handling large international projects, namely in requirement analysis, conceptualization of functional and technical specifications for large and complex systems with end-to-end delivery of solutions. He has also worked on building services related to Data Governance areas. Koushik is currently working in the project coordination of NextGEOSS in addition to working on several of the NextGEOSS pilots.

Koushik Panda

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Georgiana Bere is a software engineer at Datopian - the company responsible for the development of the NextGEOSS Data Hub. She's been active in the open data space for most of her career in various initiatives, including Open Knowledge International - the leading organisation promoting the release and use of open data around the world.

Georgiana Beres

Datopian

Alaitz Zabala is a researcher at Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB). She holds an European PhD degree in Geography in 2010, MSc in Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and a Bch in Environmental Sciences. Her main research interests are lossy compression effects on remote sensing and resulting cartography and image classification, as well as attention to metadata, geographical information standardization, data quality and user-feedback metadata. Teacher in several undergrad and grad studies, mainly in RS and GIS courses. In NextGEOSS, Alaitz is responsible mainly for developing and integrating the NiMMbus service, as a Geospatial User Feedback service for NextGEOSS as well as external partners

Alaitz Zabala

Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona

Elnaz Neinavaz was born in Tehran, Iran. She received a B.Sc in a Natural Resources Engineering- Environment at the Azad University- North Tehran Branch and obtained her M.Sc. in Natural Resources Engineering- Habitats and Biodiversity from the Azad University- Science and Research Tehran Branch. After graduation, she started to collaborate with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Global Environment Facility (GEF)/ Small Grant Program (SGP) and Plan for the Land Society on the number of the national and international environmental projects for several years. In 2013, she was awarded the European Commission, Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to peruse her doctoral research at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente. Her Ph.D. dissertation (2017) was about sensing vegetation canopies in the thermal infrared domain. She has practical experience in the usage of the lab and field instrument for measuring vegetation emissivity spectra over the thermal infrared domain to retrieve vegetation properties. Since 2017, she is working at ITC as a research fellow

Elnaz Neinavaz

University of Twente

Bente Lilja Bye has been a member of the GEO community since 2004, engaged both as representative in the GEO plenary, in committees and contributing to the GEO Work Programme, and currently represents Norway on the GEO Programme Board. Bente runs a small research and consultancy company, BLB, focusing on transforming Earth observation data to information and knowledge for societal benefit. She is responsible for Communication, Dissemination and Assessment as partner in NextGEOSS.

Bente Lilja Bye

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