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TI: Integrating NASA Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) Data Into Global Agricultural Decision Support Systems
AU: Teng, W
EM: teng@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Distributed Active Archive Center Code 902.2, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: * Kempler, S
EM: kempler@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Distributed Active Archive Center Code 902.2, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Chiu, L
EM: chiu@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Distributed Active Archive Center Code 902.2, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Doraiswamy, P
EM: pdoraisw@hydrolab.arsusda.gov
AF: USDA Agricultural Research Service, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory Bldg. 007, Room 114, Beltsville, MD 20705 United States
AU: Liu, Z
EM: zliu@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Distributed Active Archive Center Code 902.2, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Milich, L
EM: Lenard.Milich@WFP.org
AF: U.N. World Food Programme, Via C.G.Viola 68 Parco dei Medici, Rome, 00148 Italy
AU: Tetrault, R
EM: Robert.Tetrault@usda.gov
AF: USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, Production Estimates and Crop Condition Assessment Division, Wash., DC, 20250 United States
AB: Monitoring global agricultural crop conditions during the growing season and estimating potential seasonal production are critically important for market development of U.S. agricultural products and for global food security. Two major operational users of satellite remote sensing for global crop monitoring are the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) and the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP). The primary goal of FAS is to improve foreign market access for U.S. agricultural products. The WFP uses food to meet emergency needs and to support economic and social development. Both use global agricultural decision support systems that can integrate and synthesize a variety of data sources to provide accurate and timely information on global crop conditions. The Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Sciences Distributed Active Archive Center (GES DAAC) has begun a project to provide operational solutions to FAS and WFP, by fully leveraging results from previous work, as well as from existing capabilities of the users. The GES DAAC has effectively used its recently developed prototype TRMM Online Visualization and Analysis System (TOVAS) to provide ESE data and information to the WFP for its agricultural drought monitoring efforts. This prototype system will be evolved into an Agricultural Information System (AIS), which will operationally provide ESE and other data products (e.g., rainfall, land productivity) and services, to be integrated into and thus enhance the existing GIS-based, decision support systems of FAS and WFP. Agriculture-oriented, ESE data products (e.g., MODIS-based, crop condition assessment product; TRMM derived, drought index product) will be input to a crop growth model in collaboration with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, to generate crop condition and yield prediction maps. The AIS will have the capability for remotely accessing distributed data, by being compliant with community-based interoperability standards, enabling easy access to agriculture-related products from other data producers. The AIS? system approach will provide a generic mechanism for easily incorporating new products and making them accessible to users.
DE: 1800 HYDROLOGY
DE: 1854 Precipitation (3354)
DE: 3300 METEOROLOGY AND ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS
DE: 3354 Precipitation (1854)
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
SC: U
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting