GEO User Requirements for Air Quality Report

< GEO User Requirements for Air Quality | Report | Documents | Resources GEO Task US-09-01a Report Outline – Final

The following is the outline for the US-09-01a preliminary and final reports. We’ve included general descriptions of the content for some sections. We will also provide an annotated outline, which describes each sections’ content in more depth.

Cover (1 page) Backside of front cover will have the Analyst and Advisory Group names

Summary (1-2 page; 1 page strongly preferred) (If 1 page, the backside should be blank)

Table of Contents (1 page) List of Tables and Figures (1 page – on the backside of the Table of Contents)

1. Introduction (2-3 pages) 1.1. GEO and Societal Benefit Areas 1.2. Task US-09-01a 1.3. Purpose of Report (this includes audience) 1.4. Scope of Report (this includes terminology)

2. Methodology and Process (~5 pages) 2.1. Task Process 2.2. Analyst and Advisory Group a general description on how the Analyst formed the Advisory Group and a table listing the Advisory Group members, including region, area of expertise, and GEO Member Country or Participating Organization affiliation. 2.3. Methodology 2.3.1. Documents (general description on how Analyst/AG identified documents; not a list of the documents) 2.3.2. Analytic Methods 2.3.3. Prioritization Methods

3. XXX SBA (~5 pages) 3.1. Description (General information, includes brief GEO definition) 3.2. Sub-areas (statement and brief description/rationale) 3.3. Documents a general statement about the set of documents; a table of the documents with region, sub-area, organizational author, GEO Member or Participating Org. 3.4. User Types statement and table on the general types of users in the SBA sub-areas; this section also needs to articulate how this User Types contributed to the analysis, such as its use to review & improve the set of documents

4. Earth Observations for XXX SBA (length is dependent; maybe 3-4 pages/sub-area) 4.1. Sub-areas (one section per sub-area) These sections should state what observations and characteristics came out of the meta-analysis of the documents, including a brief rationale based on the documents. These sections need to reflect the methodology from 2.3.2. Essentially, the section for each sub-area needs to articulate which observations “made the cut” and why.

5. Priority Observations (4-5 pages) 5.1. General description 5.2. Priority observations. List(s) or table(s) of priority observations and characteristics This section needs to reflect the methodology from 2.3.3. This section can also include text to describe the table(s) and its contents

6. Additional Findings (1-3 pages) This section is for other finding and results of the meta-analysis that do not fit in the sections above. Create sub-sections as needed.

7. Analyst Comments and Recommendations (2-3 pages) 7.1. Discussion of Process & Methodology 7.2. Challenges (e.g., Advisory Group, Documents, Observations & Meta-analysis) 7.3. Recommendations

Overall, section 7 is for the Analysts to provide their perspectives on the SBA, documents, set of observation priorities, etc. This section can be a bit more subjective than the other sections. This section might include perspectives on the US-09-01a process and suggestions for improvement. Create additional sub-sections as needed.

Appendix A. Acronyms B. Bibliography (can be split into the two if desired – not required to do so) B.1 References Cited B.2 References Consulted C-?. Other appendices as needed AQ GEO Task 0901a Report Outline v.1