ConnectinGEO Workshop on Gap Analysis and Prioritization
October 10-11, 2016, Laxenburg, Austria

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Announcements:
  • [October 13, 2016] Workshop complete sucessfully: The ConnectinGEO Workshop on Gap Analysis and Prioritization and the ENEON Plenary meeting took place at IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria with more than 30 participants representing both the ConnectinGEO partnership and a wide range of European Earth observation networks.
  • [June 5, 2016] Workshop announcements are available: The announcements for the Gap Analysis and Prioritization Workshop and the ENEON workshop are available at www.gstss.org/2016_Laxenburg_Gaps and www.gstss.org/2016_Laxenburg_ENEON, respectively. The announcement for the ConnectinGEO Project Meeting is avialable at www.gstss.org/2016_Laxenburg_ConnectinGEO.
  • [April 1, 2016] Date of the ConnectinGEO and ENEON Workshops in Laxenburg, Austria fixed: The ConnectinGEO workshop on gap analysis and prioritization and the ENEON workshop will take place in the week of October 10, 2016 in Laxenburg, Austria. These workshops are co-located with a ConnectinGEO project meeting.


Participants in the ENEON Plenary.

 

The workshops addressed key issues associated with the societal benefits of Earth observations and the exploitation of Earth observation for societal policy and decision making.

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE GAP ANALYSIS WORKSHOP

Providing Earth Observation Support to the Monitoring and Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: Gaps and Priorities: Solving complex societal issues increasingly depends on information and knowledge derived from Earth observations and in Europe a rich landscape of Earth observation networks and actors aims to collect and process the necessary observations to satisfy these information and knowledge needs. Nevertheless, there are many gaps and the goal is to identify and assess these gaps in support of decisions on which gaps to address with high priority.

The Gap Analysis workshop discussed the outcomes of the gap analysis and prioritization performed in the ConnectinGEO project. This gap analysis was guided by the information and knowledge needs resulting from humanity's “Road to Dignity” detailed in the Agenda 2030 and specified in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed upon by the United Nations. Both the monitoring and implementation of actions to achieve these goals require extensive support from Earth observation and science communities. Several directives and crosscuting issues in Europe provided further guidance for the gap analysis.

The workshop provided a forum to review the methodology for gap analysis and prioritization, discussed the relevant gaps and priorities in the European Earth observation networks and developed a strategy to address those gaps that have a high priority assigned.

The objectives of the gap analysis and prioritization workshop were to:

  • Assess the ConnectinGEO methodology for gap analysis and prioritization;
  • Review the list of gaps identified and the prioritization achieved;
  • Produce a final list of gaps with high priority;
  • Discuss a strategy to address these gaps and provide recommendations for the European Network of Earth Observation Networks (ENEON) and the European Commission concerning high-priority gaps.