The Satellite EO for Geohazards community includes a range of different actors, including satellite data providers, value-added or value-adding companies (or VACs), research institute and academia, and industrial partners with an interest in geohazards research.
Satellite data providers are typically national or international space agencies like ESA, which operate satellites. They may also be commercial satellite operators or commercial suppliers of data.
Value-added companies use satellite data to generate information products that can be used directly by end users to address a need. Value-added companies are active in a wide range of information sectors ranging from oil and gas industries to environmental applications, disaster risk management and many others.
Research institutes and universities are involved in academic research into geohazards, either under government-sponsored grants for basic research or in support of applied research objectives.
Other geohazards users include national and regional civil protection agencies, seismological centres and national and local authorities in charge of seismic risk management activities are all concerned with disaster risk management.
Beyond operational users with a mandate in seismic risk management, there is a range of geoscience users in research institutes and universities and focused on the scientific use of data with the main goal of understanding the physics of earthquakes thereby improving our ability to characterize, understand, and model seismic risk.
Users also include other forms of association of researchers, such as for instance the community of researchers active in the Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories (GSNL), or the European Plate Observing System (EPOS).
European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. Go to website
CEOS
CEOS ensures international coordination of civil space-based Earth observation programs and promotes exchange of data to optimize societal benefit and inform decision making for securing a prosperous and sustainable future for humankind. Go to website
Group on Earth Observations
The Group on Earth Observations is coordinating efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS. GEO was launched in response to calls for action by the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and by the G8 (Group of Eight) leading industrialized countries. These high-level meetings recognized that international collaboration is essential for exploiting the growing potential of Earth observations to support decision making in an increasingly complex and environmentally stressed world.
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