Panel on User Needs Related to Food Resilience - Moderated by Brad Doorn, NASA

Abstract/Agenda: 

Feedback to ESIP is often, 'we want to hear from the users of Earth science data and systems.' This panel is an attempt to answer that request. Panel participants will each have 10 minutes to (1) introduce their community (2) describe the kinds of data used, (3) problems related to Earth science data and information systems and (4) (hopefully) success stories of Earth science data or decision support systems providing benefit. The panel will be moderated by Brad Doorn. 

Panelist

  • Molly Brown, NASA/SMAP Early Adopter Program
  • John Bolten, NASA (GEOGLAM)
  • Gary Eilerts, Famine Early Warning Systems Network
  • Josh Lieberman, OGC Agriculture & Climate WG
  • Liangzhi You, International Food Policy Research Institute
Notes: 
Introduction to the panel
Brad Doorn - User Needs related to Food resilience
Speaker: Molly Brown NASA/SMAP Early Adopter Program
Africa's Food Security challenges - how to get data into the hands of the farmers themselves
value-chain
NASA ACCESS Project
AGRA mFarms Platforms  - mobile website and text messages - works in 17 countries
SMAP data coming
Speaker: Gary Eilerts, Famine Early Warning Systems Network
(no slides)
FEWSnet - human problems - long term relationships with multiple agencies data
measure food security data on a monthly basis for countries
drought is the biggest issue
Things looking for - 
  • a common metric
  • water availability - a way of measuring this at local levels on a regular basis
  • issues of famine - forecasting
 
Speaker: Josh Lieberman, OGC Agriculture and Climate Working Group
Agriculture and interoperability
what data means to agriculture
Collection, sharing, specificity of agricultural context
Interoperability issues, sources and scales
question of data - driven agriculture - learning how to apply - levels of sophistication for user
connecting the large scale to the local scale
Discusses initial OGC targets
 
Speaker: Liangzhi You, International Food Policy Research Institute
Statistics from Space?
describing partnership CGIAR
Discusses a hierarchy of crop related statistics that might be improved using Earth Science data
 
moderator welcomes comments and questions

 

Citation:
Panel on User Needs Related to Food Resilience - Moderated by Brad Doorn, NASA; Winter Meeting 2015. ESIP Commons , December 2014
Submitted by Annie Keyes on 2014-12-30 12:27.