USGEO's Earth Observation Assessment 2023 and its Support to National Earth Observing Decision Making for Climate and Agriculture and Forestry

Earth Observing Assessment (EOA) is a government-wide assessment of the Nation’s civil Earth observation portfolio, the principal purpose of which is to guide the US Group on Earth Observations’ development of the next National Plan for Civil Earth Observations. The EOA dataset is a potentially powerful tool for improved Earth-observation coordination and planning. The EOA analysis of observing systems architecture is designed to help users understand where various inputs are used, how much they may impact multiple objectives and missions, and, hence, how the loss of an asset, or the development of new assets, might affect mission activities.

The 2023 EOA assessed two Societal Benefit Areas (SBAs): Climate, and Agriculture and Forestry. This poster will describe the key findings and recommendations for these two SBAs, and describe how the analysis can be used to:

• Demonstrate how existing observing systems support and impact societal benefit areas, including climate, and agriculture and forestry.
• Reveal linkages of products, users, applications and organizations to understand key dependencies and choke-points.
• Document user satisfaction for existing products to inform product improvements.
• Identify observing system gaps to inform future investments.

Agencies and others can view and use the results of the EOA to inform their own observing portfolio decisions.