14.12 Fan Jinlong presented the status of AG-07-03, Global Agricultural Monitoring Task status:
Established coordinating Task secretariat at ISRO
Established Community of Practice website on GEO pages
Held workshop and published report on Best Practices Guidelines for Crop area Estimation with Remote Sensing at EC JRC, June 2008
Introductory Task presentations given at various conferences
2009-2011 Work Plan, include Tasks AG-07-02 (Agricultural Risk Management) and AG-06-07 (Expanding Earth Observation Applications in Agriculture and Promoting Capacity Building in Developing Countries) under the AG-07-03 Task
Following are the selected recommendations from previous AG-07-03 workshops:
Establish free and open access to satellite data and products used for agricultural monitoring
Ensure continuity of earth observations used for agricultural monitoring
Coordinate a moderate (30m) resolution data initiative providing annual global coverage, from the available international assets (referring to the DA-07-02 )
Increase number of meteorological stations in data sparse regions e.g. Africa
Rigorously define a standard set of products for agriculture monitoring
Capacity development for integration of satellite data into operational monitoring systems in developing countries
The scope and interest of the ADC which would make a significant difference to the AG-07-03 Community of Practice are following;
Establish a single web enabled global database with near real time information on satellite data acquisitions and availability for the moderate resolution sensors over global agricultural regions so the COP can see which data are available.
Information to include: Sensor, Geographic coverage, Date, Cloud cover, Vendor/data holder.
Current Sensors to include: AWiFS, CBERS, SPOT, ENVISAT, ALOS PALSAR, Landsat 5 / 7, DMC Constellation and RADARSAT.
Next Workshop where this can be discussed the way to proceed to move ahead the requests is Feb 25-27 2009 in Beijing