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1 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 1 Overview of USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. –Mission of the Production Estimates and Crop Assessment Division (PECAD) and estimating World Agricultural Production –All source methodology and how FAS uses satellite imagery Integrated Systems Solution –Information Delivery –Daily Land Observations –Systematic Vegetation Condition Measurements –Rainfall Monitoring using TRMM-MPA –Improving Global Water Availability Monitoring Research to Operations –Characterization of Earth Observation Satellites/Sensors –New Research –Benchmarking

2 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 2 1 of 2 examples of successful technology transfer from NASA to U.S. Federal Agencies LACIE & AgriStars pioneer programs for monitoring agriculture with satellites NRC, http://www.nap.edu/ssb/rapch2.htm

3 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 3 FAS missions performed by Production Estimates and Crop Assessment Division (PECAD) Global Crop Production Information and Analysis core mission –World Agriculture Production (WAP) –World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) –Market and Food Security Reporting FSA Early Warning and Crop Conditions program efficiency –Domestic early warning and disaster response USDA Satellite Imagery Archive (SIA) program efficiency –USDA space program leadership and centralized acquisition management

4 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 4 Monthly Reports Interagency Commodity Estimates Committees World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) RELIABLE OBJECTIVE TIMELY TRANSPARENT GLOBAL ACCURATE U.S. Crop Production (NASS) Foreign Crop Production (PECAD) SUPPLY Food Security Decisions Global Agriculture Monitoring and Reporting Role U.S. Demand (ERS,FSA, AMS) Foreign Demand (FAS, ERS) DEMAND

5 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 5 Global Crop Production Information and Analysis COMMODITYPERCENT OF WORLD PRODUCTION COMMODITYPERCENT OF WORLD PRODUCTION BARLEY81PEANUT94 COPRA94RAPESEED97 CORN89RICE94 COTTON93RYE96 COTTONSEED93SORGHUM88 OATS81SOYBEAN99 PALM KERNEL95SUNFLOWER95 PALM OIL95WHEAT88 PECAD reports estimates of area, yield and production for 80 countries. (384 country X commodity pairs) Information is updated monthly and can be found at: –http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/wap.cfm

6 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 6 Convergence of Evidence, All-Source Methodology PECAD Models and Expert Analysis PECAD Ground Truth Land Remote Sensing FAS Attaché Ground Truth Atmospheric Remote Sensing External Ground Truth (Country Reports/News Services) Ag Industry Trade Industry Gov’t Policy Makers

7 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 7 How does the Foreign Agricultural Service use satellite imagery? 1.Aids in yield analysis prior to harvest. 2.Aids in crop identification and determining key growth stages. 3.Aids in confirming or denying rumors and discovering unreported events. Why is it useful? 1.Objective 2.Reliable 3.Timely

8 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 8 Evaluate similar seasons based on vegetation index data. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN SPOT NDVI Current Season

9 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 9 How does the Foreign Agricultural Service use satellite imagery? 1.Aids in yield analysis prior to harvest. 2.Aids in crop identification and determining key growth stages. 3.Aids in confirming or denying rumors and discovering unreported events. Why is it useful? 1.Objective 2.Reliable 3.Timely

10 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 10 Satellite Data Over Important Agricultural Regions Canola Victoria, Australia Field-Level Time-Series Analysis Using Landsat TM Satellite August 19September 4September 20October 22November 23December 9 Crop Stage and Field Activity Coverage: Multi-temporal over 112 days of the 170-day growing season.

11 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 11 How does the Foreign Agricultural Service use satellite imagery? 1.Aids in yield analysis prior to harvest. 2.Aids in crop identification and determining key growth stages. 3.Aids in confirming or denying rumors and discovering unreported events. Why is it useful? 1.Objective 2.Reliable 3.Timely

12 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 12 Ukraine Russian Central District Russian Volga District Russian Southern District Belarus Independent information that supports or conflicts with in-country reports -Supports – continue to monitor -Conflicts – notify country, collect new data and analysis, resolve conflict (if possible)

13 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 13 Information on Impacts of Disasters is needed quickly Hurricane Mitch Oct. 1998, Aguan Valley, Honduras Before After Tropical Oil Plantations

14 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 14 NASA transfers technology to the user community through partnerships and an “integrated systems solution” model. Earth Observation Systems SPOT VEG/HRV TRMM Jason-1 & Topex/Poseidon MODIS VIIRS Landsat ALI/Hyperion GPM IRS-P6 Earth System Models Soil moisture (Modified Palmer, Penman-Monteith) Crop yield/stage (Robertson BMTS, EPIC, Hanway, and others) Hazard models (Winter kill and others) US Air Force weather (AGRMET) Predictions/Forecasts National and sub-national yield forecast (grains, oil seeds, cotton and rice) Condition forecasts Observations, Parameters and Products NDVI Rainfall Land use Reservoir height Soil moisture Weather Crop condition Decision Support Tools PECAD/CADRE Famine Early Warning Societal Benefit Areas Global Commodity Forecast, Mitigate climate change, Disaster response NASA/FAS partnership Information Delivery WAP WASDE Crop Explorer Commodity Intelligence Reports

15 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 15 www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer Crop Explorer: Standard Analysis Product Format for Analysis Information Delivery

16 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 16 Assimilating NASA Results into FAS/PECAD NASA-USDA/FAS Cost-Sharing Project Tasks: –Daily Land Observations –Systematic Vegetation Condition Measurements –Rainfall Monitoring using TRMM-MPA –Improving Global Water Availability Monitoring

17 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 17 Daily Land Observations Jan.2004

18 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 18 Daily Land Observations July 7, 2004 July 13, 2004 NASA-MODIS Rapid Response Products: SE Asia Floods (Bangladesh) Dhaka July 13, 2004

19 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 19 Daily Land Observations from MODIS July 2006

20 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 20 Systematic Vegetation Condition Measurements

21 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 21 Systematic Global Vegetation Indices

22 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 22 Cross-Sensor Comparisons GIMMS @ NASA/GSFC Systematic Vegetation Condition Measurements

23 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 23 TRMM Precipitation from NASA GSFC DAAC Coming soon PECAD DSS Integration Rainfall Monitoring Using TRMM-MPA

24 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 24 Monitoring Global Water Availability

25 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 25 Geopositional, Radiometric and Spatial Characterization (Joint Agency Commerical Imagery Evaluation) Four targets of opportunity near SSC were selected that are 100s of meters across –Two gravel pit sand sites –Large monoculture fields –Cut grass-amateur golf course Specific Target Areas Highlighted

26 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 26 Preparing for Future NASA Results Transition from Research to Operations: –Daily Land Observations –Systematic Vegetation Condition Measurements –Rainfall Monitoring using TRMM-MPA –Improving Global Water Availability Monitoring Prepare for –MODIS -> NPP -> NPOESS –Landsat Data Continuity [http://ldcm.nasa.gov] –Future of Land Imaging [http://landimaging.gov] –GEOSS/JACIE[http:usgeo.gov] New Research (SBIR and other funding) Benchmarking –Do the new NASA results improve decision making?

27 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 27 Aqua*Aura CHAMPCluster (with ESA) FASTGOES-M* Geotail (with Japan)GRACE* ICESat*JASON-1* EO-1*Landsat-7* NOAA-M(POES)Polar QuickSCATSAGE III (with Russia) SeaWinds* (with Japan)SORCE TERRA*TIMED TRMM* (with Japan) *Land observations NASA Earth Observing Systems AIMAquarius CALIPSOCloudSat CINDIGOES Series* GPM*LDCM* NPP*NPOESS* OSTMOCO *Land observations CurrentPlanned

28 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service 7/30/2006IGARSS_2006 Integrated Systems for Agriculture 28 Contact Information Bob Tetrault Robert.tetrault@usda.gov 202 690-0130

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