Abstract With less than a decade left to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this communication aims to improve understanding of the enabling environment that is essential for Earth observations (EO) to be fully adopted within the institutional settings that drive the implementation of the SDGs and the Global Indicator Framework, an effective review mechanism for tracking progress at global to national and local levels. This paper also serves as an introduction to the Remote Sensing of Environment's Special Issue (SI) on Earth Observation for the Sustainable Development Goals. The seventeen contributions published in this SI showcase the application of EO data, methods, and tools to support countries in target setting for the SDGs, including baseline determination, as well as tracking of progress on SDG implementation and informing sustainable development planning and decision making. The majority of published articles focus on Goals 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), 14 (Life below Water) and 15 (Life on Land). We also present our own analysis of existing EO systems available to generate data for SDG indicators addressed via the SI contributions, including main resolution characteristics, and assess factors that hinder the full integration of EO solutions for the SDGs within country processes, institutions of government, and policies. We conclude that an urgent need exists for the EO community to work more closely with local and regional governments and other relevant stakeholders to promote the operationalization of EO solutions for implementing the 2030 Agenda at global to local levels. Our review also illustrates the need for transitioning towards new EO for SDG frameworks that are focused on the knowledge element of the data-information-knowledge-wisdom paradigm, rather than the data and information aspects.

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利用地球观测实现可持续发展目标

摘要 距离实现可持续发展目标（SDG）还有不到十年的时间，本次交流旨在提高对有利环境的理解，这对于在推动实施可持续发展目标的制度环境中全面采用地球观测（EO）至关重要。可持续发展目标和全球指标框架，这是一种有效的审查机制，用于跟踪全球到国家和地方层面的进展情况。本文还介绍了环境遥感特刊 (SI) 关于可持续发展目标的地球观测。本 SI 中发表的 17 篇贡献展示了 EO 数据、方法和工具的应用，以支持各国制定可持续发展目标的目标，包括基线确定、以及跟踪可持续发展目标实施的进展并为可持续发展规划和决策提供信息。大多数已发表的文章都集中在目标 6（清洁水和卫生设施）、14（水下生物）和 15（陆地生物）上。我们还介绍了我们自己对现有 EO 系统的分析，这些系统可用于为通过 SI 贡献解决的可持续发展目标指标生成数据，包括主要解决特征，并评估阻碍可持续发展目标的 EO 解决方案在国家进程、政府机构、和政策。我们的结论是，EO 社区迫切需要与地方和区域政府以及其他相关利益相关者更密切地合作，以促进 EO 解决方案的运作，以在全球和地方层面实施 2030 年议程。