Earth Observation and Sustainable Development Goals – Views from a Decade with the Group on Earth Observations. Panel Discussion on Readiness for a Terrestrial Forecasting System
Time: 09:45-11:15
Room: CCB Focke-Wulf-Saal
Format: Panel Discussion
Organizers

Barbara J. RYAN
Executive Director, World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC)
United States

James GRAF
Director, Earth Science and Technology, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
United States
Earth Observation and Sustainable Development Goals – Views from a Decade with the Group on Earth Observations. Panel Discussion on Readiness for a Terrestrial Forecasting System
Enabled by broad, open data policies and practices for the U.S. Landsat Program, and the European suite of Sentinel satellites in the Copernicus Programme, tremendous advances have been made in technologies for global terrestrial observations – permitting analysis of global landscape change that was not possible, heretofore. This Expert Panel reflects how to achieve the United Nation’s SDGs by concerted space activities and how to advance Earth observations to a terrestrial forecasting system.