AIP-5 Agriculture SBA Demo Prof. Liping Di Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems George Mason University ldi@gmu.edu Agriculture SBA Tasks • Three tasks for the GEO Agriculture SBA • AG 01: initiating the creation of a 5- to 10-year strategic plan and creating a plan of action for GEO in agriculture; • AG 02: developing and improving analytical tools and methods for agricultural risk assessment, particularly for crop failure, and establishing common standards and formats; • AG 03: supporting operational agricultural monitoring systems, enhancing the current capabilities in the areas of agricultural monitoring, famine early warning and food security. AIP-5 Agriculture SBA Implementation • Pilot the implementation of a prototype distributed system for operational global agricultural monitoring – Support Agriculture SBA, especially task AG 03 • Theme: crop condition monitoring and analysis • Scenario: – A government agricultural decision maker or an agriculture commodity trader wants to know the current crop condition of major crops in the world’s major production areas in comparison with the last year, a specific year in the past, or multi-year average. GEOSS Ag. SBA Wiring Diagram PYXIS GMU WMS (NDVI, VCI) users GMU WCS (NDVI, VCI) GMU/NASS WFS (ASD, state/county) GMU VegScape GMU CropScape GMU GADMFS GMU DEM GMU WMS GMU WCS Explorer (DEM) (DEM) GMU/NASS WMS (CDL) GMU/NASS WCS (CDL) GMU WMS (Ag. Drought) GMU WCS (Ag. Drought) CAASS WMS CAAS WCS (corn, wheat con.) (corn, wheat con.) Demo video show Demo video show Summary • • • OGC Interoperability technology brings the agricultural information providers and users together Under the GEOSS Architectural framework, it is possible to construct operational global agriculture monitoring and analysis system. Any user with an Internet can access and utilize the agricultural information equally. Decision Makers OGC Services brings together agriculture information providers and information users Ag information Providers Credits • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason University Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Tsinghua University, China National Agricultural Statistics Services, USA PYXIS CIESIN, Columbia University, USA GeoViQua GEOWOW Arch GIS-FCU, Taiwan India Institute of Technology INCOSE TUD-GLUES UNEP-Live And many more…