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CEOS GST Portal

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Agenda Item 19

2021 CEOS Plenary

Virtual Meeting

1-4 November 2021

Stephen Ward

For the Australian SIT Chair �and NASA CEOS Chair Team

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Heritage & approach

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  • SIT Chair Team had action from SIT-36 to prepare a dedicated area on ceos.org for our dataset contributions to the GST

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  • Consolidated presentation of the various GHG and AFOLU datasets and associated guidance

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  • A thin layer of introductory information to help users find relevant CEOS contributions in one place

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  • Progressed as a SIT Chair - CEOS Chair cooperation and 2021 outcome

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Contributions

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  • CEOS GST Data Portal (ceos.org/gst) is the culmination of significant work by dozens of dataset teams across CEOS agencies and working teams

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  • Big thanks to the GHG and AFOLU teams in particular for development of the template and provision of consistent information to explain and characterise the different entries

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ceos.org/gst

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  • Organised by:

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    • CO2 & CH4
    • Above Ground Biomass
    • Forests
    • Mangroves
    • Agriculture
    • Land Cover

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Dataset descriptions

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  • Dataset description
  • Pointers on usage
  • Methodology
  • Uncertainty & Accuracy
  • Sustainment
  • Associated Guidance
  • User Manual
  • Point of Contact for help
  • All in English, French and Spanish

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Deployment and future

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  • Please advertise this new resource, at COP and beyond

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  • V1 was expedited for COP-26 as a milestone in the GST Process

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  • SIT Chair Team will continue to evolve the resource consistent with
    • the GST Schedule and CEOS GST Strategy
    • developments in the supporting CEOS datasets
    • feedback from agencies and users
    • will integrate links to other CEOS info systems including MIM

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Thank you...visit ceos.org/gst !

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  • To the numerous teams tolerating our deadlines for the Portal

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  • To CEOS and SIT Chair Teams for effective cooperation

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