CEOS ad hoc team on GEOGLAM 14 September 2012 Washington DC

1. Status of the CEOS Ad Hoc Team Activities on GEOGLAM CEOS ad hoc team on GEOGLAM 14 September 2012 Washington DC

2. Outline • Team members • Deliverables • Activities: • User Requirements Meeting, July 2012 • Working with GEOGLAM on capacity development (regional and countries at risk component) • Summary

3. CEOS Ad Hoc Team on GEOGLAM • Team members (alphabetical order): • Yves Crevier (CSA) • Sujay Dutta (ISRO) • John Faundeen (USGS – Co-Chair of SDCG) • Brian Killough (NASA and SEO) • Benjamin Koetz (ESA) • Joao Soares (INPE – GEO SBA Coordinator for agriculture) • Shin Ichi Sobue (JAXA – CEOS ad hoc Team Liaison to GEO) • Prasad Thenkabail (USGS – CEOS liaison to GEO AG SBA) • Stephen Ward (JAXA)

4. Deliverables and Next Steps

5. GEOGLAM User Requirements Meeting • Held at CSA on 10 – 11 July 2012, with CEOS involvement. • Involved representatives from over 12 different organizations regrouped under 2 distinct communities – the GEO Agriculture community of practice and the CEOS Ad Hoc working group on GEOGLAM. • Meeting objective was to provide CEOS with an understanding of the agricultural monitoring observation requirements for GEOGLAM and initiate a process by which those requirements can be translated into operational data acquisition.

6. GEOGLAM User Requirements Results • The results package includes the following elements: • A summary table of requirements developed taking into consideration the observation needs, the derived products they will serve, and high-level regional specificities; • The spatial and timing components to qualify and characterize the table (multi-scale shape files and crop calendars for the various cropping regions identified in the table); • The operational considerations (data latency, data quality, need for high-level products, interoperability, etc.)

7. Relevant Satellite EO Products for Various Required Information Credit: Pierre Defourny

8. Spatial Resolution and Observation Frequency for Various Satellite EO Products Credit: Pierre Defourny

9. GEOGLAM User Requirements Results

10. GEOGLAM User Requirements Results • The results package includes the following elements: • A summary table of requirements developed taking into consideration the observation needs, the derived products they will serve, and high-level regional specificities; • The spatial and timing components to qualify and characterize the table (multi-scale shape files and crop calendars for the various cropping regions identified in the table); • The operational considerations (data latency, data quality, need for high-level products, interoperability, etc.)

11. WHERE? Cropmask Sources: USGS NLCD (USA), CORINE (Europe), Africover (Africa), South Africa, Zimbabwe (national products), MODIS UMD MCD12q1 (rest of world). compiled by UMD

12. AT WHAT LEVEL OF DETAIL(SPATIAL RES.)? Data Source: IIASA, Ecosystems Services & Management, based on interpolation of 50,000 IIASA GEOWIKI collected validation points

13. WHEN? Data source: UMD crop calendar (USA), SAGE crop calendar (rest of world)

14. WHEN? Data source: UMD crop calendar (USA), SAGE crop calendar (rest of world)

15. HOW OFTEN? Data source: UMD, based on MODIS Terra data from 2000-2011

16. HOW OFTEN? Data source: UMD, based on MODIS Terra data from 2000-2011

17. GEOGLAM User Requirements Results • The results package includes the following elements: • A summary table of requirements developed taking into consideration the observation needs, the derived products they will serve, and high-level regional specificities; • The spatial and timing components to qualify and characterize the table (multi-scale shape files and crop calendars for the various cropping regions identified in the table); • The operational considerations (data latency, data quality, standardized geometrical and radiometric corrections, need for high-level products, interoperability, etc.)

18. Operational Considerations • Operational considerations: data latency, data quality, need for high-level products, interoperability, etc • Tasks associated with monitoring crop growth and production are time-sensitive and the goal for data delivery is for near real-time data (defined as no later than 48 hours from acquisition). • Preference for delivery of useful information products rather than raw data. • Essential that the underlying data are calibrated and geo-located with the appropriate documentation needed to use the data. • Need for fusion of data from multiple systems. • Need for standard data formats.

19. Operational Considerations • While the broader remote sensing community is moving towards generating standard data products for climate change studies (i.e. ECV’s), there has yet to be a similar initiative with an agricultural monitoring focus. • Procedures for ordering data and data delivery need to facilitate data access and use. • For operational monitoring at national to global scales, large volumes of data will be generated, and so procedures for automatic download need to be made available. • Procedures will be needed for accessing and processing high volume data for example from both Very High Resolution (VHR) and Microwave systems. • Special consideration is needed for the provision of data to monitoring groups in developing countries which may not have the benefit of high speed internet.

20. Operational Considerations • Facilitating data inter-use in terms of formats, tools and functionality of delivery systems will enhance the utility of the data and reduce obstacles to the uptake of use of the data. • While the first priority will be to make sure the required data are acquired for a given area at the appropriate time, ease of data access and timely delivery will also be critical to effective use of the data.

21. Asia Rice Crop Monitoring Purpose: Compile Asia rice crop monitoring requirement and develop a workplan of Asia rice crop monitoring as a part of GEO GLAM workplan. Link to GEOGLAM WP: Linked to Capacity Development and Regional Needs components Relevance: Addressing Climatic and socio-economic aspects and imperative technologies in Asian region Team members: Shin-ichi Sobue (JAXA) , Kei Oyoshi (JAXA), Jai Singh Parihar (ISRO), Sushma Panigrahy (ISRO), Preesan Rakwatin (GISTDA), Lam Dao Nguyen (VAST), Agus Hidayat, Dr Mahkmoud, Ratih Dewanti (LAPAN), Muhrizal Sarwani, Rizatus Shofiyati ICALRD (Indonesia), Heng Suthy (MRC), Wu Bingfang (IRSA) Supported by Stephen Ward, George Dyke, Matthew Steventon (Symbios) and Toshio Okumura, Akira Mukaida, Nobuhito Tomiyama (RESTEC)

22. Work plan for Asia Rice Crop Monitoring 2012/7: Report about Asia rice crop monitoring requirement to CEOS UR meeting at Montreal (by Shinichi) 2012/9: Develop draft Asia rice crop monitoring work plan 2012/11: Review the work plan at ACRS2012 hosted by GISTDA, Thailand with AARS 2012/12: Approve the work plan at APRSAF-19 hosted by ANGASA and Japan and submit it to GEOGLAM With monthly Asia rice crop monitoring telecon

23. Summary • Continue to work closely with the GEOGLAM task team • Organize a GEOGLAM focused SDCG meeting – development of a draft global acquisition strategy. • SDCG co-leads have confirmed their willingness and capacity to address the acquisition strategy for GEOGLAM following delivery of the Baseline Global Acquisition strategy for GFOI. As actioned by SIT this will be put to CEOS Plenary and work can commence thereafter. • Propose SDCG 3 – Feb 2013 – for the development of a draft coordinated acquisition strategy • Conduct a volumetric and cost assessment of GEOGLAM imaging needs (Feb/Mar. 2013) • Provide results of analysis and recommendations to CEOS leadership on further steps vis-à-vis the GEOGLAM initiative – including a plan for the pre-2015 outcomes (@ CEOS SIT-28, Mar. 2013).