Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring: Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring

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Title:: Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring

Sub title:: techniques and impacts ; September 17 - 21, 1990, Victoria Conference Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Year of publication:: 1990

Place of publication:: Victoria, BC

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Identifier (digital):: 856665355

Language:: English

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Persistent identifier:: 856669164

Title:: Proceedings of the Symposium on Global and Environmental Monitoring

Sub title:: techniques and impacts; September 17 - 21, 1990, Victoria Conference Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Scope:: XIV, 912 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1990

Place of publication:: Victoria, BC

Publisher of the original:: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]

Identifier (digital):: 856669164

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Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Editor:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Commission of Photographic and Remote Sensing Data

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

Document type:: Volume

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: [TP-1 GLOBAL MONITORING (1)]

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Title:: Operational Environmental Satellite Remote Sensing for Food Security and Locust Control by FAO The ARTEMIS and DIANA Systems. by Jelle U. Hielkema

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Operational Environmental Satellite Remote Sensing for Food Security and Locust Control by FAO The ARTEMIS and DIANA Systems by Jelle U. Hielkema Senior Remote Sensing Officer (Environmental Monitoring) FAO Remote Sensing Centre Rome, Italy ABSTRACT Since 1976, the Remote Sensing Centre of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has, in cooperation with relevant FAO user divisions, actively been developing and testing the operational use of data from environmental and earth resources satellites for improving the information bases of the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) on Food and Agriculture and Desert Locust Plague Prevention Programme at international, regional and national levels. This paper describes the operational satellite environmental monitoring system, ARTEMIS, implemented by FAO in 1988, in cooperation with NASA Goddard Space Right Centre (GSFC), the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) of the Netherlands and the Universities of Reading and Bristol (UK), for real/near realtime precipitation and vegetation assessment in Africa, the Near East and southwest Asia, based on the integrated use of high frequency Meteosat and NOAA AVHRR data. The paper furthermore summarizes the development status of the DIANA satellite telecommunication system of the European Space Agency (ESA). This system, which was formulated jointly by ESA and FAO, will permit near realtime transmission of high volume ARTEMIS digital data products to microcomputer based terminals of users at regional and national levels in Africa. 1. Introduction Since 1975, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has been pioneering the development of the use of satellite remote sensing techniques for improving the surveillance and forecasting capabilities of FAO’s Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) on Food and Agriculture and Centralized Desert Locust Reporting and Forecasting Service at its Headquarters, as well as those of related organizations at the regional and national levels, primarily in Africa. On the basis of findings from experimental activities on the use of Landsat, NOAA and Meteosat satellite data for vegetation monitoring and precipitation assessment, FAO defined an operational system for largely automated satellite environmental monitoring for the above programmes, based on the use of hourly Meteosat thermal infrared and daily NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data covering Africa, the Near-East and South-West Asia. The system, Agricultural Real Time Environmental Monitoring Information System (ARTEMIS) was developed as a result of close technical cooperation between the FAO Remote Sensing Centre, the FAO Global Information and Early Warning Service, Plant Protection Service, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), the Universities of Reading and Bristol and the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) of the Netherlands, with financial assistance from the Government of the Netherlands through an FAO Trust Fund. The ARTEMIS system was installed in the FAO Remote Sensing Centre in Rome during August 1988 and has since then operationally generated an increasing number of information products on the occurrence of rainfall and vegetation development, on a ten-day and monthly basis, which are currently being used by a number of 20

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