Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

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Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Global Earth
Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is a
partnership that includes 76 governments and 52
international organizations. The vision of GEO
is to create a Global Earth Observation System of
Systems (GEOSS) to realize coordinated,
comprehensive and sustained Earth observations
and information among countries.
http//www.earthobservations.org/
A ten year GEOSS plan (2005-2015) defines the
vision, purpose, and scope of the system, as well
as nine expected  Societal Benefit Areas in
disasters, health, energy, climate, water,
weather, ecosystems, agriculture and
biodiversity.  This emerging infrastructure aims
to interconnect a diverse and growing array of
sensors and information systems to monitor,
forecast and assess changes in our global
environment to support experts, policy makers,
and decision makers.
The implementation of GEOSS is being pursued
through a set of tasks, including the GEOSS
Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) that aims
to build, test and demonstrate the information
architectural capabilities necessary for
GEOSS. This years pilot is focused on the four
red circled societal benefit areas.
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Linear Causality Model for Campus Carbon Emissions
Carbon/BTU
Fuel Cons.BTU/yr
C EmissionTon C/yr
/Student
Sq. Ft./
BTU/Sq.Ft.
PopulationStudents
Activities Expend./yr
Buildings Sq. Ft
Kw-hr/Sq.Ft.
Fuel Cons. BTU/yr
C Emission Ton C/yr
Electr. ConsKw-Hr/yr
BTU/Kw-hr
Carbon/BTU

• The carbon impact of on-campus energy is due to
  direct fuel consumption and indirectly from
  electricity use
• The overall carbon impact for on campus energy
  consumption has increased 50 from 1990-2007
• Electricity use contributed about 80 percent to
  the on-campus carbon impact

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Washington University Transportation Sector -
Overview
Fuels (FM), j
Emission (EM), k
PMT
Activity
VMT
S ai1 Fraction of PMT
bi VMT/PMT
djk Emission/Fuel-
cij Fuel/VMT
Car
Car
SUV/Truck
SUV/Truck
On Campus Trspt distance of trips
Bus
Bus
Gas
Shuttles
Shuttles
Students
Diesel
Commutingdistance of trips
Carbon
Metro
Metro
Faculty
Electric
Staff
Walk/Bike
Walk/Bike
Unv. Mng Traveldistance of trips
Jet Fuel
Train
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Air
Air