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The new UN report provides insight into how geospatial technology can advance the global food security agenda
FAO and Unosa highlight the importance of collaboration to benefit space technology for small-scale farmers
**Rome – **Many of the new satellites currently in Earth’s orbit are equipped to provide innovative tools and data to improve global food security and enhance the agrifood system. Masu. A new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Space and Space Administration (UNOOSA) aims to inform and guide an array of experts and policymakers on the various intersections of space technology and agriculture. It’s there. Forestry and land use management, climate and environmental trends.
“Space technology has emerged as a game changer. Satellite imagery, global navigation satellite system data, and its integrated applications enable stakeholders from local farmers to international policymakers, and crop health. Monitor, manage water resources, detect pests, reduce harm and enable planning of weather uncertainty. Lifeng Li, director of FAO’s Land and Water Division, said, “Agricultural Development and Food.” “Utilizing Space Technology for Security” is among the various other applications, according to director of Unosa Aarti Holla-Maini.
The use of geospatial technology is far from new, which began in 1957. Since then, more than 17,000 satellites have been launched, with rates reaching around 3,000 each year. However, that possibility is magnified by the increased accuracy and diverse capacity of satellites, as well as many cloud-based applications that allow granular Earth data to be accessed to smartphones for a long time.
From technological interoperability and data harmony to capacity-building initiatives, there is a growing need to bridge the gap between space and agriculture. and the need for international collaboration to help small farmers and developing countries access satellite data and benefit from it.
The new report will strengthen global capabilities in using satellite data for agriculture, increasing international coordination on agricultural-centric satellite missions, and increasing accessibility and interoperability between space data and services. Recommended. It promotes the establishment of a centralized UN image procurement hub for satellite output to reduce duplication and increase synergy.
He also emphasized that increasing collaboration and integration not only leads to greater concrete benefits for everyone, but also contributes to reducing the looming risks of rapidly expanding space activities. Masu. This could threaten the operational safety of the satellite and hinder future missions.
FAO achievements
The FAO award-winning hand-in-hand geospatial platform leverages the power of satellite-derived analysis and data, consolidating over 2 million layers of open-access geospatial and agricultural statistical data from global providers .
Furthermore, FAO’s forest cover monitoring tool Sepal is an easy-to-use Google Earth Engine platform and an increasingly accurate way to detect landscape changes in virtually real-time, with the help of precious inputs. It is provided for your device. Satellite services in many FAO members.
Another cutting-edge FAO tool is Wapor. It taps on satellite data to track the actual water consumption of crops with high levels of accuracy, allowing farmers and policymakers to optimize resource utilization.
FAO’s ability to directly bring space technology to farmers through tools such as Sepal and Wapor is a unique product. Geospatial technology also contributes to regional and international emergency response initiatives, pest control, soil fertility management, water stress assessment, crop calendars, efficient use of fertilizers and pesticides, and a range of precision agriculture technologies. Masu.
Report
The report highlights the need for multi-stakeholder partnerships to exploit the full potential of agriculture space technology.
FAO’s agricultural intelligence activities and rapid crop mapping efforts in Togo during the Covid-19 pandemic led by the government, NASA Harvest, Planet Lab and the University of Maryland will prompt public agencies to release interventions immediately. It has made it possible. Tensions in the country’s agri-food system.
Reports split to cover up the upstream, midstream and downstream sections of the space agriculture value chain, ensuring that developing countries have access to appropriate spatial infrastructure and establish standards for methods, data, information and procedures It emphasizes avoiding temporary things. Additionally, the spatial coverage gaps in remote sensing data are all keys to optimizing global Agrifood system strategies.
One of Unosa’s central agendas is to help the United Nations establish legal and regulatory frameworks for space activities, but FAO is actively working with the International Standards Organization (ISO). and develops functional metalologies for land cover and land use issues. Effective exercises in data harmony, integration and interoperability are all essential to making the most of the innovative opportunities offered by geospatial technology. It also allows farmers to upload validated observations in fields that allow them to spread profits through cloud computing platforms such as Sepal. Because of that.
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