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Land Management Cluster
Applied Earth Observations Innovation Partnership (AEOIP)
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What we do: Strengthen connections between EO data producers and members of the land management community.
Why we do it: Collaboration between individual subject matter experts fosters innovation and reduces redundancy of effort.
Applied Earth Observations Innovation Partnership (AEOIP) is jointly supported by NASA and USFS
AEOIP works alongside ESIP in the Land Management Cluster to foster interagency partnerships to advance Earth Observation-based land management.
By connecting Earth observation science & technology experts with land management experts, we seek to increase awareness of new Earth Observation (EO) capabilities, as well as research and operational management challenges, in order to help formulate solutions through effective integration of data.
The group meets every TKTK each month at TK p.m. Eastern. Join through the ESIP Community Calendar.
Upcoming events on the community calendar
Themes and Priority Areas
To support sustainable natural resource management, satellite data products must address key agency monitoring and assessment needs. A primary objective of the collaboration between NASA and the land management community is to identify decision-support needs, existing gaps in knowledge and data, and relevant NASA products and tools to support those needs and close those gaps. We’re also looking to encourage the development of communities of practice—groups of people that have a goal of working together to solve issues of common interest.
Soil moisture and hydrology
Soil moisture dynamics, soil productivity and erosion, inventory and condition of wetlands, riparian areas, and groundwater-dependent ecosystems, aquatic habitat suitability, land cover, and hydrological change and vulnerability
Vegetation condition
Forest and non-forest vegetation structure, composition, and function, forest health and productivity, seedling survival, biomass and carbon, invasive species, fuel loading and post-fire recovery, vegetation shifts due to climate change.
Emissions and flux
Air and aerosols including GHG, carbon flux detecting, assessing, and monitoring ecosystem vulnerabilities due to changing environmental conditions (climate change and other abiotic stressors).
Knowledge discovery & synthesis
Development of integrated decision support tools, supported data formats, cloud computing (big data handling), integration (mission, tools), and technology transfer.
AEOIP Resources
Workshops
Materials from AEOIP’s annual gatherings from 2020-2024 are available on Zenodo.
Webinars
Recordings and presentation materials are available on YouTube and figshare.
Publications
A list of all AEOIP publications is available on Zenodo.
Why TKTK Matters
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AEOIP Guiding Principles
The partnering NASA, USFS, and DOI agencies have identified a set of core values to define the work and objectives of the Applied Earth Observations Innovation Partnership:
- Inter-agency Coordination: We acknowledge the importance of cooperation to promote collaboration between agencies that are EO data producers and those that are responsible for the management of public lands. Such agency-level cooperation reduces barriers to effective collaboration between individual subject matter experts, fosters innovation, and reduces redundancy of effort.
- Making Connections: We recognize the value of making and strengthening connections between EO data producers and members of the land management community. We seek to break down subject matter silos that tend to hinder communication.
- Creating Space: We establish a framework that sets aside both physical and intellectual spaces to foster the exchange of information and ideas. We provide venues for collaborative exchanges between EO data producers and subject matter experts within the land management community. These include virtual forums as well as face-to-face workshops that encourage open discussion among participants. We open channels of communication to strengthen partnerships between EO data producers and land managers.
- Process Advancement: We understand that the establishment of a better and more comprehensive process to effectively integrate EO data into land management applications is needed. We seek to identify and facilitate the development of successful pathways for EO data uptake into land management decision-making and to identify and share best practices with partners and participants.
- Data Integration: We support ideas and efforts that promote the integration of EO data products into operational land management decision support structures. Though we do not currently have dedicated funding, we sponsor innovative ideas within the EO and land management communities and guide innovators to potential avenues of support and implementation.
- Results Driven: We seek to identify, understand, and ultimately resolve the different barriers to EO data integration into land management applications. These barriers may be technical or institutional by nature and may be exacerbated by a lack of communication pathways between the two communities. At the federal level, the land management community typically includes USFS, USGS, BLM, FWS, and NPS but we also encourage engagement with stakeholders at the state/local level and in the private sector.
