Agricultural Monitoring in the Americas: An International Working Group to Realize the Goals of GEOGLAM and AmeriGEOSS
Abstract
The Agricultural Monitoring in the Americas Working Group (AMA-WG) was launched in March 2018 to implement the activities of GEOGLAM Latinoamérica (G-LA) and AmeriGEOSS Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture (FSSA). These sister initiatives both focus on strengthening national systems' monitoring capabilities through Earth observation (EO). The AMA-WG accomplishes this by fostering within-country/inter-agency and within-region/international collaboration around research and development and operational implementation of monitoring tools for the main crops types and rangeland/pasture areas in the Americas. These are voluntary initiatives under the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) umbrella. In its short time, the AMA-WG has secured participation from experts in Earth observation and/or agriculture from the ministries of agriculture, space agencies, universities, and industry from over a dozen institutions in 8 countries (Canada, US, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina as of July 2018).
By facilitating contact and coordination between researchers and decision makers at the farm to ministerial level, we can best utilize EO-derived information to confront challenges around food production, food security, climate change, and sustainable development. The AMA-WG broadly focuses on: - Assessing data-to-information needs in the Americas; - Fostering research collaborations toward operational methods; - Capacity development and technology transfer in the use and management of EO datasets toward producing actionable information; - Moving EO information into the hands of decision-makers. This talk will highlight the WG's rationale, current work plan, and accomplishments so far, while providing broad outreach to increase participation from throughout the Americas- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMGC11H0999W
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- 1632 Land cover change;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1640 Remote sensing;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1880 Water management;
- HYDROLOGYDE: 4323 Human impact;
- NATURAL HAZARDS