Bringing the community to the data and the data to the community: GEOGLAM efforts to transform Earth observations into actionable information
Abstract
The GEOGLAM (Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring) Initiative was established in 2011 by the G20 Action Plan on Food Price Volatility and Markets to utilize satellite data to improve crop production outlooks and early warning information. Core to GEOGLAM's mission is empowering agricultural policy and program decisions, regardless of their remote sensing knowledge or expertise. These decision support needs drive our activities, and in turn, we convene a diverse community to convert data into metrics, information, knowledge, and eventually sustained decisions with tangible policy impacts.
To further actualize GEOGLAM's "Data-Decisions Cycle," we are articulating "Essential Agricultural Variables for GEOGLAM" (EAVs). EAVs are fundamental indicators of state and change in agriculture that can support monitoring and reporting under multiple policy frameworks, including the 2011 G20 Action Plan and the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In parallel and as a part of this broader ecosystem to revolutionize the state of play in agricultural monitoring, GEOGLAM has launched a Capacity Development Thematic Coordination Team (CapDev Team), is developing several platforms for discovering, visualizing, and analyzing satellite data and derived or related information, and is advancing the state of the science through its community research agenda. This talk will highlight these contributions and how they align with the GEO Knowledge Hub.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMIN41A..01W
- Keywords:
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- 1640 Remote sensing;
- GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 1916 Data and information discovery;
- INFORMATICS;
- 4329 Sustainable development;
- NATURAL HAZARDS;
- 6620 Science policy;
- POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES