Abstract
Abstract. The global network of the Group on Earth Observation, GEO, connects all kinds of professionals from public and private institutions with data providers, sharing information to face the challenges of global changes and human development and they are creating a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) to connect existing data infrastructures. A GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot Project for Disasters in Chile (AIP-8) was created as part of a capacity building initiative and representatives of different national agencies in Chile, along with international experts, formed a GEOSS Capacity Building Working Group (Lovison et al, 2016). Consistent with the objectives of GEOSS AIP-8 Chile, we developed and implemented a prototype service based on web services, mobile applications and other communication channels, which allows connecting different sources of information, aiming to reduce population vulnerability to natural disasters such as: earthquakes, flooding, wild fires and tsunamis, which is presented here. The GEO Chile client application is a JavaScript application using GEODAB brokering services, GIS technology and disaster information provided by national and international disaster services, including public and private organizations, where cartography becomes fundamental as a tool to provide realism and ubiquity to the information. Seven hotpots are targeted: Calbuco, Copahue and Villarrica volcanoes areas, Valparaíso city, which is frequently a victim of wildfires in the zone where population meets forest and Iquique, Illapel and Talcahuano, areas frequently struck by earthquakes and tsunamis.
Highlights
The global network of GEO connects all kinds of professionals from public and private institutions with data providers, sharing information to face the challenges of global changes and human development
As by the beginning of 2017, entering the website “geoportal.aca.cl” a bilingual (Spanish and English) page offers to select the parameters for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Historical Data
The application will browse the IRIS database in the GEO portal, using the semantic-enabled search developed by Mattia Santoro (Santoro et al, 2012)
Summary
The Group on Earth Observation, GEO, "... is a partnership of more than 100 national governments and in excess of 100 Participating Organizations that envisions a future where decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations." (GEO, 2017). In order to share information under common standards, GEO is creating GEOSS, a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, connecting existing infrastructures, inviting more members to share their data and creating capacities where they are needed. A GEOSS Common Infrastructure, GCI, will connect the information from data provider systems with users, providing data in all Social Benefit Areas structured in the GEOSS Portal (agriculture, biodiversity, climate, disasters, ecosystems, energy, health, water and weather). The idea is to make use of the database of the GEOSS system and its geoportal In this scenario, cartography becomes fundamental as a tool to provide realism and ubiquity to the information. All the data must be arranged in geographic information systems, where the exact location of specific points will be displayed and characterized with local information in order to provide useful data for the disaster management and mitigation
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