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Professor Chris Justice, and graduate students Inbal Becker-Reshef and Mary Lindsey traveled to Ispra, Italy this June to attend the GEOSS Crop Area Estimation Best Practices workshop, the third in a series of GEOSS Global Agricultural Monitoring workshops aimed at enhancing our current capabilities in the areas of agricultural monitoring, famine early warning, and food security. The Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) is an international program developed to improve international coordination and cooperation on earth observations with an emphasis on societal benefits. The workshop, hosted by the European Commission Joint Research Centre was led Dr. Justice, brought together the GEO Agricultural Monitoring Community of Practice to assess the current state of crop area estimation practices worldwide, to develop a best practices document for crop area estimation techniques using remote sensing earth observations, and to design a series of regional experiments which could be used to compare crop area estimation methodologies. The community of practice, which included 41 participants representing 27 national and international organizations, also discussed the next steps in developing an operational global agricultural monitoring system. A series of tasks were developed for the next 24 months including a workshop to review methods for integrating in-situ and remote sensing estimates of rainfall in Africa, a workshop on data policy and data exchange for agricultural monitoring to be held in China in early 2009 and regional experiments in Africa, Argentina, China and North America.
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