National and Regional Agricultural Monitoring in East Africa in support of Food Security Decisions
Abstract
Timely and reliable information on crop conditions and early warning of impending shortfalls of crop production are critical components for achieving food security, economic growth, and ensuring sufficient, reliable food availability and access. Earth Observations (EO) provide a significant contribution towards providing such crop information at both global and local scales. This talk will focus on a set of satellite-based crop monitoring activities developed and implemented in close partnership with national and regional partners in East Africa. These activities are being implemented through the NASA SERVIR program, GEOGLAM and EOFSAC and are increasing national and regional capabilities for in-season agricultural monitoring in support of government and humanitarian policies, programs and decisions. The talk will address the impacts, challenges, lessons learned and opportunities in transitioning applied EO research into operational monitoring systems.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMGC43A..01B
- Keywords:
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- 1616 Climate variability;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1632 Land cover change;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1640 Remote sensing;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1655 Water cycles;
- GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 1616 Climate variability;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1632 Land cover change;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1640 Remote sensing;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1655 Water cycles;
- GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 1616 Climate variability;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1632 Land cover change;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1640 Remote sensing;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1655 Water cycles;
- GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 1616 Climate variability;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1632 Land cover change;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1640 Remote sensing;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1655 Water cycles;
- GLOBAL CHANGE