Coordination in Support of Food Security & Ag Decision Making
Ian Jarvis (GEOGLAM Director) and Alyssa Whitcraft (Harvest Program Manager & GEOGLAM Program Scientist) presented in a recent webinar organized by the Global Open Data on Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) Initiative.They provided a high level overview of GEOGLAM, then focused on the monthly crop condition consensus reports – The Crop Monitors, capacity development efforts from a regional perspective, and concluded with examples of how GEOGLAM is making a difference to global food security with Earth observation data.
The Crop Monitor is coordinated by UMD on behalf of the GEOGLAM Secretariat, with support through Harvest from NASA Applied Sciences.