Unlock and use EO/geospatial data for SDG by empowering stakeholder engagement in a transformed society

Abstract

The mission goal of the Working Group for Sustainable Development Goals (WG4SDG) of the Hungarian Society of Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (MFTTT) is to promote the use of the steadily developed Earth observation (EO) and geospatial data infrastructures (SDI) and services – considering as base elements of the Digital Earth concept -as supportive tools for many of the SDGs-related indicator monitoring and reporting. The engagement of the stakeholders from government, academia/education, private sector/industry and learned societies is a key issue also on national level. It is anticipated, the link with the forum of the EO industry represented by the Hungarian Space Cluster HUNSPACE will leverage the experiences of the EO and SDI communities. Similarly, the connection with the national geographic information (GI) association HUNAGI and international societies such as FIG, ISPRS, ICA and ISDE are vital for knowledge transfer.