United States Group of Earth Observations and the Integrated Earth Observation System Sample Clauses

United States Group of Earth Observations and the Integrated Earth Observation System. To implement the U.S. components of GEOSS, the U.S. Interagency Working Group on Earth Observations (IWGEO) was formed as an ad hoc group, which in March 2005 was formally renamed and established as the USGEO, a standing subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.12 USGEO has representatives from 15 U.S. government agencies and three White House offices and is co-chaired by NASA, NOAA, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). USGEO was structured to mirror GEO, including an executive secretariat, a planning and integration team, and technical teams on architecture, data utilization, user requirements and outreach, capacity building, and international cooperation. The main U.S. contribution to GEOSS is the development and coordination of the Integrated Earth Observation System (IEOS), and the first task of USGEO13 was to develop a strategic plan14 for IEOS. The strategic plan defines the overarching goal of USGEO as to “enable a healthy public, economy, and planet through an integrated, comprehensive, and sustained Earth observation system.” Similar to GEO, USGEO defined nine societal benefit areas although they differ in order and slightly in substance from the nine societal benefits defined in the GEOSS 10-year implementation plan. The USGEO societal benefit areas are (emphasis added): ▪ Improve Weather Forecasting ▪ Reduce Loss of Life and Property from Disasters ▪ Protect and Monitor Our Ocean Resource ▪ Understand, Assess, Predict, Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Variability and Change ▪ Support Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry and Combat Land Degradation ▪ Understand the Effect of Environmental Factors on Human Health and Well-Being ▪ Develop the Capacity to Make Ecological Forecasts ▪ Protect and Monitor Water Resources 12 United States Group on Earth Observations, xxxx://xxxxx.xxx.xxxx.xxx/. Accessed July 13, 2005. 13 For simplicity, we use the name USGEO to refer to both IWGEO and USGEO, regardless of the timing. IWGEO and USGEO both refer to the same organization; IWGEO became USGEO in March 2005.
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