GEO Knowledge Hub
Digital Library for Earth Observation
Users Report
2026 Q1 review
Empowering the community to go beyond.
A consolidated view of who contributes to and who benefits from the GEO Knowledge Hub, across packages, resources, organisations, webinars and the people behind them.
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Period Jan 2023 — Apr 2026 ·SnapshotQ1 2026 Report · 2023–2026 inception period·
Scope
All public records on gkhub.earthobservations.org
Next · October 2026
01 · Headline
The hub at a glance
Cumulative totals across every Knowledge Package, Resource and contributing organisation as of the snapshot date.
Knowledge Packages
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Curated bundles published since 2023
+16 YTD
Knowledge Resources
0
Datasets, notebooks, papers, software
+58 YTD
Work Programme Activities
0
GEO WP Activities behind the Knowledge Hub
8 org types
Webinars delivered
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568 attendees, 95+ countries reached
10 in 2025
↳ 6 commercial items currently catalogued
02 · Records
Records contributed each year
2024 was the strongest year by both Packages and Resources. 2026 figures reflect the first four months only.
Packages & Resources, 2023 → 2026 YTD unit: count
Packages are curated bundles; resources are the individual artefacts (datasets, notebooks, software, papers) inside them.
A user who shares materials in the form of Knowledge Packages and Knowledge Resources, in addition to using existing materials and interacting with the community.
Beneficiary CONSUMER
A person who accesses the GEO Knowledge Hub to learn about available content and reuse it to produce new applications, while interacting with the community to evaluate, discuss and share materials.
03 · Providers
Where contributions come from
Knowledge Providers span eight organisation types and 26 GEO Work Programme Activities, from UN agencies to national space agencies, regional GEOs and SMEs.
UN
UN organizations
e.g. FAO
WP
GEO Work Programme
e.g. Digital Earth Africa, GEOGLAM, CropWatch
RO
Regional Organizations
e.g. ECMWF, IIASA
RG
Regional GEOs
e.g. EuroGEO
NO
National Organizations
e.g. ASI, CNES, NEOSS, NOA
NG
National GEOs
e.g. South Africa GEO, Ghana GEO
U
Universities
e.g. UNIGE, UMD, UJ, ITC
SM
SMEs
Small & medium enterprises
26 GEO Work Programme Activities contributing
ordered alphabetically
ACIS
CLIMATE-OBS
DE-AFRICA
EO4HEALTH
EO4SDG
EO4SENDAI
GEO BON
GEO DKWG
GEO-ECO
GEO-EV
GEO-LDN
GEO-MOUNTAINS
GEO-TREES
GEO-VALUE
GEO-VENER
GEOGLAM
GEOGLOWS
GEOMIN
GFOI
GOS4M
GUOI
GWIS
HUMAN-PLANET
IN-SITU-ESC
OEA
SCO (PO)
04a · Pulse
The hub in numbers
Plausible-derived analytics for the Q1 2026 Report · 2023–2026 inception period. Snapshot 2026-05-15.
Unique visitors
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Distinct visitors across the inception period
Pageviews
0
All-time pageviews
Countries reached
0
Distinct countries with at least one visit
↳ 1,207 days covered
04b · World reach
Where visitors come from
200 countries reached. Choropleth shaded by quantile band.
Visitors / country
1–910–99100–9991k–9.9k10k +
Top 10 countries
unique visitors
01 China
31,767
02 United States
7,512
03 Hong Kong
3,516
04 Germany
2,494
05 France
2,425
06 Brazil
1,830
07 Italy
1,776
08 Netherlands
1,696
09 United Kingdom
1,667
10 India
1,630
04c · Growth
Visitors over time
Monthly unique visitors from 2023-01 to 2026-05. Peaks pinned to the story callouts on the right.
Story callouts
Metrics launch 2023-01
First month live — 56 visitors find the hub.
First thousand-visitor month 2024-02
February 2024 becomes the first month past 1,000 visitors from outside the GEO community.
Take-off 2025-10
Visitors break 2,200 in October 2025 and never look back.
Nine thousand in 31 days 2026-01
January 2026 alone draws 9,004 visitors, roughly the whole of 2024.
Peak day on record 2026-05-14
A single day sees 2,016 visitors, 3x more than any other day in the hub's history.
04d · Top pages
What the audience reads
Top 10 content pages across documentation, packages, records and communities.
Top 10 traffic sources — a mix of search engines, partner sites, and AI assistants.
01 Google
13,680
02 earthobservations.org
4,270
03 Bing
1,123
04 spaceclimateobservatory.org
718
05 chatgpt.com
687
06 LinkedIn
665
07 Yandex
438
08 eurogeosec.eu
351
09 worldpop.org
301
10 statics.teams.cdn.office.net
284
04f · How they read
Devices, browsers, OS
Audience reads from the desktop. A clear signal that the hub is consulted at work, not in passing.
Devices
share %
Desktop 63.0%
Laptop 28.2%
Mobile 6.1%
Tablet 2.6%
Browsers
share %
Chrome 80.8%
Microsoft Edge 6.9%
Firefox 6.3%
Safari 3.8%
Mobile App 1.1%
Opera 0.5%
Samsung Browser 0.3%
Yandex Browser 0.3%
Operating systems
share %
Windows 74.8%
Mac 15.1%
Android 4.2%
GNU/Linux 2.5%
iOS 2.5%
Ubuntu 0.8%
Chrome OS 0.0%
HarmonyOS 0.0%
05 · Webinars
Webinars & community engagement
2025 was a step-change in cadence. 2026 already approaches half of 2024's full-year reach in just four months.
2024
2025
2026 YTD
Total
Webinars
4
10
2
16
Attendees
211
271
86
568
Countries
59
53
41
95+
Organizations
119
153
76
348
GEO Knowledge Hub team members are not counted in attendee totals.
06 · Audience
Our beneficiaries are…
Self-declared roles from registered beneficiaries, clustered from largest cohorts to specialist titles.
StudentPhD StudentMsc StudentGIS AnalystResearch ScientistResearch AssociateGIS ConsultantRemote Sensing SpecialistJunior Project ManagerTrainee GIS InternshipPrincipal Faculty SpecialistLecturerAssociate ProfessorResearch FellowProfessorResearch AssistantPostdoctoral ResearcherSenior LecturerProgramme OfficerSenior Faculty SpecialistHead of Earth ObservationAgriculture GIS AnalystAgriculture AnalystGIS ExpertGeospatial App DeveloperGeospatial Data ScientistGIS & RS ManagerGIS ArchitectSpatial Data ScientistData AnalystGeo-information EngineerData ScientistDigital Agriculture SpecialistLead Developer / IT SupportData CuratorTechnical OfficerGeospatial Agroclimatology AdvisorEnvironmental & Geospatial SpecialistBiophysical ModellerHydrologistAgriculture EconomistAgriculture Development OfficerWater Management SpecialistFood Security AnalystEnvironmental StatisticianCrop Assessment SpecialistSustainability SpecialistPhysical ScientistSenior GIS ExpertRemote Sensing OfficerScientistInternational GIS SpecialistProject OfficerInternational Business Development ManagerConsultantFreelance ConsultantSenior ConsultantSenior Technical Advisor — Climate Risk & EWSSenior EO ExpertAgroclimatology AdvisorClimate Strategy SpecialistExternal IT ConsultantSoftware DeveloperSenior Applications ManagerR&D ProfessionalSenior Technical OfficerClimate / EO AnalystSenior AgronomistSenior EconomistSenior Meteorological ObserverDirector & CEODirector of R&DSenior Project CoordinatorLead ResearcherManaging DirectorHead of DepartmentSenior Operations OfficerSenior Project ManagerInnovations & New Initiatives LeadLead Agriculture SpecialistDirector, HCMC Space Tech Application CenterChief Geospatial OfficerDeputy Executive DirectorDeputy Director of InnovationLead Digital Agri Policy OfficerChief Scientist / DirectorClimate Governance SpecialistProject Coordinator, NARIGPRegional StatisticianDirector of Agricultural StatisticsDevelopment Project Officer (Intl. Context)Agriculture ResearcherAgriculture Analyst
07 · Voice
What beneficiaries tell us
13 verbatim quotes from post-webinar surveys. Highlights mark recurring themes.
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GEO Knowledge Hub is valuable in the Open Science and Open Knowledge concept.
webinar survey · open science
All resources in one place and centralized. Kindly organise such events regularly. Thank you for sharing and training. It's nice to be part of the community. I was glad to attend and gain useful experience. Very valuable tool. All resources in one place and centralized. Kindly organise such events regularly. Thank you for sharing and training. It's nice to be part of the community. I was glad to attend and gain useful experience. Very valuable tool.
Filter
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I knew different GEOGLAM applications before the webinar — but the GEO Knowledge Hub provides important information for those who did not get involved in GEOGLAM.
webinar survey · discovery
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Very valuable tool and a good example of how EO data could be used for agriculture risk management .
webinar survey · applied value
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It would be better to make the webinar more interactive — but I know it is challenging as many people join from around the world.
webinar survey · improvement
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It gave me alternative options of accessing and handling EO data.
webinar survey · capability
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Such webinars are essential for updating global research findings with developing countries.
webinar survey · equity
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The GEO Knowledge Hub should be further improved in a coordinated way with other platforms .
