Task AG-01 GEOGLAM GEO TASK AG-01 Michel Deshayes

Task AG-01 GEOGLAM GEO TASK AG-01 Michel Deshayes, GEOGLAM Coordinator for the Agricultural Community of Practice

Task AG-01 Recent Progress and Key 2014 Outputs • Task AG-01: quick history – July 2007, Rome: GEO Ag. Mon* Workshop to develop a strategy for global agricultural monitoring in the framework of GEO – 2008 -2010: Thematic GEO Ag. Mon Workshops (Ispra, Beijing, Kananaskis. . ) – 2011: G 20 Ministers of Agriculture decide to create AMIS & GEOGLAM, to fight volatility of food prices – 2012: Preparing and prototyping the monthly GEOGLAM global Crop Outlook – 2013: Starting monthly delivery of Global Crop outlook… Key 2014 Ouput Ag. Mon* : Agricultural Monitoring

GEOGLAM Activities Task AG-01 3 Pillars + 3 Cross Cutting Components 4. EO DATA COORDINATION 5. METHOD IMPROVEMENT through R&D coordination (JECAM) 6. Data, products and INFORMATION DISSEMINATION Stakeholders Governments AMIS FAO

GEOGLAM Activities Task AG-01 • Main Pillar #1 activities – Crop Monitor: Coordinated Global Crop Assessments (4 main crops, ~30 main producers) • Monthly operational report to AMIS (G-20 Agricultural Market Information System, with secretariat hosted at FAO) • Synthesizes monitoring activities and provides consensus global crop assessments (Coordinated by UMD with NASA support) • Participating Agencies include: – USDA NASS (National Agricultural Statistics Service) & FAS (Foreign Agricultural Service) – EC-JRC MARS (Monitoring Agricultural Resources) & Agri 4 Cast (Agricultural Forecasts) – China: RADI-CAS Crop. Watch – Russia VEGA (Satellite based service for vegetation monitoring) – India: FASAL (Forecasting Agriculture using Space, Agro-met. & Land based observations) & NADAMS (National Agricultural Drought Assessment & Monitoring System) – Canada: NCMS (National Crop Monitoring System)… – Brazil: CONAB Geo. Safras

GEOGLAM activities Task AG-01 • Main Pillar #2 – Capacity Building – On-going national projects • • Argentina (INTA - UMD - NASA) Pakistan (CRS – SUPARCO – FAO - UMD – NASA) Ukraine (IKD – Hydro. Met - EC) South Africa (NEOSS, ARC, SANSA)… • Main Pillar #3 – Countries at Risk – On-going international monitoring Projects • • FAO GIEWS (Global Information & Early Warning System) US FEWSNET (Famine Early Warning System) EC MARS Food Security Bulletins China Crop. Watch Drought & Food security activities… • Cross Cutting Component R&D – JECAM – Objective: to reach a convergence of approaches, develop monitoring & reporting protocols and best practices for a variety of global agricultural systems – About 40 test-sites on all continents!

Present use of EO data in GEOGLAM AG-01 Task projects • EO data for Pillar #1 – Global Crop Monitoring – GEOGLAM Monthly Crop Monitor • Wheat, Maize, Soy – Use of low resolution optical data (MODIS), together with Met data (GCOM-W, TRMM…) and with moderate resolution crop type masks – CEOS data used to-date : Optical Low Res, Optical Moderate Res » Future: sampled optical high resolution ; microwave SAR • Rice – Rice regions: China, India, South-East Asia (90% world prod. & consumption) – Rice monitoring, using Agro. Met data (GCOM-W, TRMM…) & local experts » Asian collaborative network, coordinated by JAXA (S. Sobue) – CEOS data used to-date : Optical Low Res. (OLR) ; microwave SAR (just starting – Other crop monitoring activities • Generally multi-source information: – Low (MODIS), Moderate (Landsat TM), High Resolution (Rapid. Eye etc) optical data, Agro. Met data, field tours, expertise… – CEOS data used : Optical Low Res. (OLR), Mod Res. (OMR), High Res. (OHR)

Task C#1 – Crop Monitor – AMIS countries AG-01

Task AG-01 Production & Exports of AMIS members Wheat production Maize production Soybean production 2012 – 2014 average Maize Exports Soybean Exports Rice Exports 2012 – 2014 average Wheat Exports 2012 – 2014 average

GEOGLAM Crop Monitor in AMIS Market Task AG-01 Monitor September October November December Operational GEOGLAM Global Crop Condition Assessments published monthly within the G-20 AMIS Market Monitor Bulletin

Present use of EO data in GEOGLAM AG-01 Task projects • EO data for Pillar #2 – Capacity Building – National CB projects based on: • Optical Low (MODIS), Moderate (TM), High (Spot, Rapid. Eye) resolution data, together with Agro. Met info, used in Crop Yield Forecast Models, with local experts – Argentina, Ukraine, Morocco, South Africa, Ethiopia… – CEOS data : optical low / medium / high resolution (Free-of-Charge + Commercial) • ASIA-Ri. CE project, a multi-national rice- monitoring project: – for 8 ASEAN countries, with JAXA coordination & participation of India & China – CEOS : from Autumn 2013, use of SAR data (Scan à Hi. Prec. modes) for national & sub-natl Crop area assessment & Crop yield forecast, obt. Through CEOS • EO data for Pillar #3 – Countries at Risk – Early Warning Systems based on: • Multi-source information: Agro. Met & Optical Low Resolution data, moderate and high resolution + expertise

Component#2 -Capacity Building ex. Pakistan: Strengthening Provincial Capacity Task (collaboration between USDA, FAO, SUPARCO, CRS AG-01 Pakistan, & UMD) Training Workshops

Component #4 – EO data coordination with AG-01 Task CEOS • Continued exchanges with CEOS – in particular with CEOS GEOGLAM Adhoc Group, re. definition of EO data needs for GEOGLAM components • Present situation: – Global Crop Outlook: Free and open access to MODIS and Landsat data – Main specific data deliveries to JECAM sites (HR & VHR optical, SAR) – Recent delivery of SAR data over South-East Asia (ASIA-Ri. CE) • Wish of more rapid access to SAR data • Wish of EO data exchange between JECAM partners

Component #5 – R&D -JECAM Task AG-01 • JECAM – Joint Experiment of Crop Assessment and Monitoring – pre-existing to GEOGLAM, now the R&D compoent of GEOGLAM • Objective: – to reach a convergence of approaches, develop monitoring & reporting protocols and best practices for a variety of global agricultural systems • Present status – about 40 test-sites on all continents! – 2013 Annual Report just published – 2014 JECAM Science workshop, Ottawa, 21 -23 July • New projects – EU-FP 7 SIGMA project (2013 -2017): 27 partners (EU, Russia, Ukraine, China, Ethiopia. . ) – ESA Sentinel-for-Agriculture (2014 -2017) – Ex. Ag. Mon for 2 African countries

Task CEOS Support - JECAM Data Requests AG-01 (2013) 14 14

Task AG-01 Existing and Potential Cross-Task Activities • Link with Task WE-01 High-impact Weather Prediction & Information – Medium term Weather Prediction: use of El Niño forecasts to intensify monitoring over potentially affected regions (Countries at risk) – Short term Weather Information: confirmation (explanation) of NDVI anomalies with weather events (droughts, frost, floods. . ) – Cf. Agro-Met models for yield forecast • Link with Task SB-02 – Global Land Cover – Crop masks, parts of global/regional Land Covers – Potential of synergy cf. differences between different Land

Differences in Cropland Extent MODIS Task AG-01 Glob. Cover Fritz and See, 2008

Task AG-01 Evidence of the Use of Task-related Task AG-01 Systems, Datasets, Information Products, and Services • Cf. GEOGLAM Crop Monitor Assessment Interface

GEOGLAM Crop Monitor Assessment. Task AG-01 Interface Enables comparison among relevant datasets (global, regional and national), by crop type and accounting for crop calendars; enables crop condition labeling and commenting to reflect national expert assessments 18/35