COFFEE PROJECT 
  
We imagine that all the participants of this Pan 
nel are familiar with the coffee farming in Brazil which covers - 
approximately 600.000 sq. km. 
An inventory of the coffee crops and a survey of 
the coffee trees population is highly recommended at least every 
two years, including the identification of new, mature and decre- 
pit trees, so that an estimate of each harvest could be performed. 
The Brazilian Institute of Coffee - IBC - is co- 
ordinating a large remote sensing programme which is being finan- 
ced by the Diversification Fund of the International Coffee Orga- 
nization and to which the Food and Agriculture Organization of 
United Nations is providing technical assistance. 
Part of the remote sensing programme involves - 
the development of an advanced survey system for coffee inventory 
on the basis of a system designed by a brazilian engineering group, 
composed of experts of the Technological Institute of Aeronautics 
(ITA), of the State University of Campinas (UEC), and of the Spa- 
ce Research Institute (INPE), under the coordination of the Photo 
interpretation Service of IBC, The system should provide useful © - 
information on yield prediction, as well as regional information 
on the physical aspects of the crop, which are of importance for 
the control of coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix). This survey 
  
system has been based upon photogrammetric and television cameras, 
and a especial video recorder; an outline of the system follows, 
- SYSTEM OUTLINE 
  
The survey sensor system consists of two sub-uni 
ts: 
1. A mapping camera 
2. A sampling camera.