Synthesis of Points Made

GEOGLAM General Guidance – Greater institutional engagement needed – Identify some near term manageable successes – focus on gap filling – Sustainability of initiative ? – Will be addressed by building on national and global operational systems – Need a means by which to keep this issue on the G20 Ag Ministers agenda – Maintaining commitment from individual countries – Need to continue to engage related global initiatives e.g. Global Ag Stats Strategy – Build at the institutional level where there is a mandate ( Min of Ag ) – Clear Incentives for participation needed – data policy for consortium – Need targets and measures of “improvement” and demonstrated effectiveness – Focus on areas/topics where RS can make a positive difference – Timeliness should be a focus – Ensuring satellite continuity “operational’ issue – Clarification of Objectives of GEOGLAM

Engaging Relevant Partners – WMO high level discussion needed on GEOGLAM participation (as a GEO Partner) – CEOS ditto ( CEOS Plenary Nov ) – FAO Ag Stats (guidance needed) – UNCCD, Conv Biodiversity Players (rangelands) – Pro-active International Agencies can help change the status quo ! – National Ag Ministries – in some cases can be problematic to engage – long term availability of proven higher quality products can pay off G20 presents an opportunity to rekindle or initiate interactions between the new and traditional methods

Linkages to AMIS – Common interest between the global action of GEOGLAM and AMIS in terms of main crops and the 30 producers /exporter countries - prioritization of where to focus capacity building effort would help – Augmenting current systems with new EO-based methods e.g. acreage and yield obvious candidates – Strength of GEOGLAM on observations & data utilization – Mechanism for communication between GEOGLAM and AMIS needed – Need a tight coupling to decision processes - timing critical for markets – traders - governments – Which information is missing (Ag Ministers?) - what new information is needed – How to proceed with explanation of numbers and harmonization? – Need one estimate ? ? – multiple similar numbers would be stronger – Reduced uncertainty– increased stabilization – JRC is actively supporting AMIS ( w. MARS data and infrastructure )

Countries at Risk – GEOGLAM could contribute to GIEWS auxiliary data set initiative – crop calendars, field size, – Improved rainfall data (encourage/strengthen on- going WMO initiatives?) – Area planted identified as a tall pole – Potential area for expansion into land use, farming system changes, vulnerability – Pasture/Rangeland emphasis – Inventory surface water

Operational Research and Development – Utilize JECAM – already in process – Harmonization of sensing systems (Mod Res’n examples) – Minimizing field survey with remote sensing – Models and Data Assimilation – Continue to expand microwave capabilities for cloud impacted areas (Tropics +) – Tools for Integration at the operational level – linking field data to satellite data (indices) – interpretation and feedback - – Characterizing Farming system changes – Making new sensing systems operationally relevant – Explore hyper-spectral opportunities (italy/israel/aus) – Ground-based remote sensing methods – Need to examine appropriate methods for Research to Operations – Upscaling and Downscaling issues

Break Out Groups Global Producer / Exporter (Wu, Leo) – Next steps – Linkage to Food Security – Inc. Satellite Component Countries at Risk (Ahmed, Eilerts) – Priorities and next steps – Discussion with WMO on rainfall est National Capacity Building (Jarvis, Latham) – Best practices – Priority G20 Countries