5th adc meeting

14.12 Fan Jinlong presented the status of AG-07-03, Global Agricultural Monitoring
Task status:

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  Established coordinating Task secretariat at ISRO
  
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  Established Community of Practice website on GEO pages
  
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  Held workshop and published report on Best Practices Guidelines for Crop area Estimation with Remote Sensing at EC JRC, June 2008
  
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  Introductory Task presentations given at various conferences
  
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  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:

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  Establish free and open access to satellite data and products used for agricultural monitoring
  
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  Ensure continuity of earth observations used for agricultural monitoring
  
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  Coordinate a moderate (30m) resolution data initiative providing annual global coverage, from the available international assets (referring to the DA-07-02 )
  
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  Increase number of meteorological stations in data sparse regions e.g. Africa
  
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  Rigorously define a standard set of products for agriculture monitoring
  
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  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;

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  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.
  
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  Information to include: Sensor, Geographic coverage, Date, Cloud cover, Vendor/data holder.
  
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  Current Sensors to include: AWiFS, CBERS, SPOT, ENVISAT, ALOS PALSAR, Landsat 5 / 7, DMC Constellation and RADARSAT.
  
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  Next Workshop where this can be discussed the way to proceed to move ahead the requests is Feb 25-27 2009 in Beijing