WG III/10: Agriculture and Natural Ecosystems Modelling and Monitoring
Working Group Officers:
Chair |  | Mitsunori Yoshimura Center for Spatial Information Science the University of Tokyo As-208 4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku Tokyo 153-8505 Japan + 81 3 3715 4011 +81-3-5452-6414 mitsu_yoshimura@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp home page |
Co-Chair |  | Shibendu Shankar Ray Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers' Welfare Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare Pusa Campus New Delhi - 110 012 India + 91 11 2584 3224 +91 11 2584 3225 shibendu.ncfc@nic.in shibendu.ray@gmail.com home page |
Co-Chair |  | Francesco Pirotti Interdepartmental Research Center in Geomatics Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry University of Padova Via dell'Università, 16 35020 - Legnaro (PD) Italy +39 049 827 2710 +39 049 827 2750 francesco.pirotti@unipd.it home page |
Secretary |  | Jaime Hernández Palma Laboratorio de Geomática y Ecología del Paisaje Facultad de Cs. Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza Universidad de Chile Santa Rosa 11315 La Pintana, Santiago Chile +56 2 9785873 +56 2 5414952 jhernand@uchile.cl home page |
Terms of Reference:
- Development of new methodologies and algorithms for improving the contribution of remote sensing towards knowledges related to agriculture and natural ecosystems
- Test and assess new remote sensing algorithms for monitoring natural and anthropogenic ecosystems
- Apply remote sensing for supporting precision agriculture by spectral signature in crops for smart farm management
- Support climate change studies through remote sensing applications for global and regional scales dynamics monitoring and modelling
- Collaborate with related academia, researchers, industry and other stakeholders