EO4SDG Initiative

We were SO thrilled to recognize our 6 GEO SDG Award Winners yesterday at the GEO Global Forum! 🏆🌏 Check out our website to learn more about the awardees and their inspiring #EOdata projects ⬇ eo4sdg.org/announcing-the… #TheEarthTalks #Agenda2030 #SDGs

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Last week, we joined the 15th #UNGGIM session in NYC. Key themes: sustainable capacity building, smarter coordination across regions, and the need for more inclusive and diverse geospatial leadership as the field evolves. #CapacityBuilding #AI #ClimateData #GeospatialLeadership

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🌐 Join @SDGsToday, @statsmaldives & @EU_ScienceHub for an #HLPF2025 virtual side event! Explore how non-traditional data drives: 🔹 Research & capacity-building 🔹 SDG monitoring 🔹 Evidence-based policymaking 📅July 15 🕐8 AM EST 🔗sdgstoday.org/event/2025hlpf @SustDev @UNStats

We were SO thrilled to recognize our 6 GEO SDG Award Winners yesterday at the GEO Global Forum! 🏆🌏 Check out our website to learn more about the awardees and their inspiring #EOdata projects ⬇ eo4sdg.org/announcing-the… #TheEarthTalks #Agenda2030 #SDGs

🎉 Scidrones, a spin-off of the Univ. of the Aegean led by Prof. K. Topouzelis, wins a 2025 GEO SDG Award! 📍 Innovation, AI & drones for marine litter & SDG14.1.1b 🔗 lnkd.in/dPTArYRj #Scidrones #SDGs #DronesForGood #EarthObservation #EO4SDG #uaegeanresearch

.@FAO helped Zimbabwe create an Earth Observation-assisted national crop monitoring system #EOSTAT This initiative is supporting the country tap satellite data to improve its own agricultural statistics, drought and flood modelling capacities @nustzim 👉bit.ly/4jRKbZ9

The #MixedMethod approach was recognized by FAO, UNESCAP as a cost-effective method for food security planning with much replicability. Learn more about the project here: youtu.be/qndP6dzm9KE?si…

Last but not least, we awarded Statistics Indonesia BPS with the GEO Member Country award for its space-based and in-situ #EOdata integration to modernize rice harvest statistics and support #SDG2 policy-setting! 🎉🏆 #Agenda2030

Learn more about #CRSITB's collaboration with #GISACT to enable citizen-led environmental stewardship with the #RuntahTracker here: crs.itb.ac.id #GeoIntelligenceForGood #ParticipatoryMapping

The Center for Remote Sensing, Institut Teknologi Bandung won the Academia award for its AI-enabled methodology to manage local river waste dumping with remote sensing, drone imagery, and community data in West Java, Indonesia! 🎉🏆 #Agenda2030

Learn more about GDA's approach for financial mobilization and knowledge exchange for EO mainstreaming here: gda.esa.int #AcceleratingImpact

Our next SDG Award Winner is the ESA Global Development Assistance programme for Collaboration! 🎉🏆 @esa_gda_ stood out for its work accelerating #EOdata use for #SDG themes in 75 countries through relationships with the space tech and development finance sectors. #Agenda2030

Learn more about the value brought to Zimbabwe and other countries for advanced agricultural statistics development through the EOSTAT program here: fao.org/in-action/eost…

FAO won the SDG Custodian Agency award for their support of Zimbabwe's implementation of EOSTAT to enable national crop risk & forecasting and #SDG2 reporting with geospatial data! 🎉🏆 #Agenda2030

Learn more about the project's interdisciplinary partners and innovations here: iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-2023/… #citizenscience #SDGs #officialstatistics #EarthObservation #EO #AI #CMLO #marinelitter @dilekfraisl1 @StatsGhana @EPA_Ghana @sdgstoday @maryamarabiee

Our 2nd SDG Award Winner is a collaborative project led by @IIASAVienna blending Earth observations and AI methods to manage coastal litter in Ghana, making it the first country to report on #SDG14.1.1b through citizen science data! 🎉🏆 #Agenda2030

CBAS & AIRCAS built a scalable machine learning-based approach for land cover and productivity analysis, supporting global #SDG15 monitoring and policy interventions. Learn more about the Big Earth Data platform here: cbas.ac.cn/en/

Let's take a closer look at our SDG Award Winners! 🎉🏆 First up are the International Research Center of Big Data for SDGs (CBAS) and Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS) who received a GEO Participating Organization award! #Agenda2030