Approach to GEOGLAM Information & Dissemination Inbal Becker-Reshef Chris Justice

GEOGLAM Data and Information GEOGLAM Components that will generate data and information : 1.Monitoring Global Ag monitoring system of systems (Producers/Exporters) 2.Monitoring Countries/regions at Risk 3.Strengthening National Capacity for Ag Monitoring 4.Coordinating Satellite data and products and In Situ Observations

Squares indicate official statistics Circles indicate in-season estimates GEOGLAM GOAL: improve operational global and national crop production estimates using EO and their timely dissemination (AMIS) Crop Forecasts and Estimates Vary!

Data Policy GEOGLAM will promote free and open data sharing (in line w. GEO Data Policy) Data provided specifically through GEOGLAM should be free and openly available to all – Most of this will be in the context of component 1 and 2 ( global data sets ) and 4 satellite and in-situ Data generated as a result of GEOGLAM National Capacity Building component 3 - will be subject to national data policies Satellite data to be worked through CEOS (fine/more –res) Data products/processing/collection standards

Primary Information Types Crop Statistics – Forecasts – Final estimates Data Inputs – Derived Products Crop calendars Crop maps, crop type maps, crop group maps (updated seasonally- 5 yer) Biophysical parameters/metrics (LAI, soil moisture, ET, drought indices, WRSI etc.) (time-series) – Time series EO (SR, indices ) – High/mod res sampled EO – Agromet including rainfall, temp, ET, etc – field data

Indicators – Alerts (drought) – Production Anomalies (global) (extraordinary events?) – Seasonal forecasts/outlooks Tools – Models (yield) – Area estimation (regression estimators/AF) – Mapping/classification – Flood mapping – Frost detection – Crop map inter-comparison/validation (GEOWiki) – Crop condition Workshops/training Best Practices Guidelines

Current Approaches to Dissemination Data portals (Metadata) and access tools – GEOSS common infrastructure (GCI) Satellite data (raw data/derived products): – Coordinated Acquisition requests (for mod/fine res data) JECAM – distributed system & coordinated through CEOS – Data systems (push/pull) space agencies and data providers (brokers) – NRT (LANCE) – Archives and derived long term data records (LTDR)

Satellite Data Continued Value added products from the community (university, govt, research, institutes, private industry etc. ) Agromet Data Seasonal outlooks, forecasts, precip, ET (WMO, national/regional met services & data centers, GCOS etc) Online GUI information analysis and querying systems (MARS, Cropexplorer, FEWS, GIEWS, CropWatch,) Method/Product Inter-comparison – JECAM – AgMIP – PAY Crop Bulletins outlook and reports (national, GEIWS MARS, FEWS, USDA, CropWatch etc) Online stats data bases – USDA/FAO/AMIS/PAY etc

GEOGLAM General Approach Previous CoP discussion have decided to implement a distributed rather than centralized system of systems for data dissemination – Recognizing sovereignty of national systems – requirement for long term institutional and operational commitment – EO data policies Emphasis therefore placed on: providing shared tools and models (area frame, yield models etc) standardized processing and products (SR, crop-type, etc) community best practices documents Modular approach to building capacity – Augmenting current systems with enhanced components Coordinated data acquisition (working with CEOS)

GEOGLAM Contributions Global/Regional systems --> Global Systems & National Systems  AMIS – Global EO datasets(NRT, indices) – Agromet gridded datasets – Modules (software, data, architecture) – Models (WOFOST/BioMA/analog year) – Indicators (Frost alerts, drought alerts) – Mod/high res?? (data buys?) National Systems  National & Global  AMIS – In situ data – Country specific data layers: crop calendars, crop maps, models, stats – High res – Training Satellite  national & global – Articulation of specific EO data requirements (vetted) – Coordinated Ag Acquisition strategy (working w/ CEOS) COVE tool – High/moderate res data sharing – Standardized NRT processing (sentinel2 LDCM) Ag Task: – JECAM – PAY – GEOWiki

Data Availability Categories for GEOGLAM Exist & are generally unavailable – Additional Rainfall data & gridded products – Fine res – Sub-national stats archive (yield /area) Don’t exist which are needed – High temporal, high quality mod res data for ag regions – Mod/fine res ET, soil moisture – Operational yield models Exist but currently incomplete/inadequate – Global Cropland map – Crop type/group – Crop calendars – Soil moisture

Possible Approach to System of Systems? GEOGLAM website Database inventory (GEOGLAM portal?) of current shareable ‘information’ according to: – agency/partner, – information type (time-series, models, software, stats, etc) – best practices guidelines by cropping systems – Conditions/policies GEOGLAM Centralized distribution (ie PAY) GEOGLAM Distributed (ie JECAM) Tools (ie GEOWiki) Training/workshops Articulation of EO data requirements & Work with CEOS and commercial providers to meet needs Links to AMIS – crop condition, forecasts, alerts