Media Invited to International Earth Observation Briefing, Exhibit

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WASHINGTON -- The United States is hosting the sixth plenary meeting
of the Group on Earth Observations, or GEO, this week at the Ronald
Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, in Washington. Reporters
are invited to a Nov. 17 press opportunity and a public exhibition
highlighting recent GEO projects, including several involving NASA.

The press event will be held at 12:45 p.m. EST in the Reagan
Building's Hemisphere A area. Photo identification is required.
Sherburne B. Abbott, associate director for environment in the White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and other speakers
will present details of GEO programs around the world.

Through GEO, 80 national governments, the European Commission and
almost 60 global organizations coordinate Earth observation assets
and strategies to track global trends in carbon levels, biodiversity
loss, deforestation, water resources, ocean temperatures and other
critical indicators of Earth's health and human well-being. The U.S.
is a founding member of GEO through the U.S. Group on Earth
Observations.

The exhibition in the Reagan Building's Atrium Hall will be open to
the public on Nov. 17 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Nov. 18 from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Highlighted projects featuring NASA contributions include
near real-time fire detection, global agricultural monitoring,
natural disaster monitoring and forecasting, and a famine early
warning system.

For more information on the GEO plenary meeting, visit:

http://usgeo.gov

Source: NASA