drsrs e-agri: activities in kenya 24 th march,2011 charles situma nairobi, kenya...
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DRSRS
KENYA
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DRSRS
1970’s 1980’s 2000’s
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DRSRS
Agricultural areas – Kenya Provinces
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Agriculture
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DRSRS
• Expanding Earth Observation Applications in Agriculture and Promoting Capacity Building in Developing Countries
• Monitoring of agricultural production leading to accurate and timely reporting of national agricultural statistics and accurate forecasting of shortfalls in crop production and food supply
• Effective early warning of famine, enabling timely mobilization of an international response in food aid
Observation
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DRSRS
Required
• Capacity building– state-of-the art models for Agricultural and forest
monitoring– gain experience in applicability of these models to
local conditions– adapt or select the appropriate models for integration
in local operational workflows
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DRSRS
Activities
• Agricultural crop and biomass predictive models• Short term on-hand workshop (expose DRSRS
participants to state-of-the art models and newly available satellite data
sets)• 1-2 month training• Exposure on existing cases (Morocco, China etc)• Tools (infrastructure): AMESD
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DRSRS
Collaborative effort: DRSRS, Alterra and VITO to set-up:
•Local crop data infrastructure and database.
• Train on generation of crop calendars, plant density, area, yields, LAI, ETP, etc.
•Train on calibration of crop parameters at local level
•Calibrate crop model local varieties especially for phenology and yield level
Collaborative effort: DRSRS, Alterra and VITO to set-up:
•Local crop data infrastructure and database.
• Train on generation of crop calendars, plant density, area, yields, LAI, ETP, etc.
•Train on calibration of crop parameters at local level
•Calibrate crop model local varieties especially for phenology and yield level
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DRSRS
Collaborative effort: DRSRS, Alterra and VITO to set-up:
•Local crop data infrastructure and database.
• Train on generation of crop calendars, plant density, area, yields, LAI, ETP, etc.
•Train on calibration of crop parameters at local level
•Calibrate crop model local varieties especially for phenology and yield level
Collaborative effort: DRSRS, Alterra and VITO to set-up:
•Local crop data infrastructure and database.
• Train on generation of crop calendars, plant density, area, yields, LAI, ETP, etc.
•Train on calibration of crop parameters at local level
•Calibrate crop model local varieties especially for phenology and yield level
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DRSRS
Area estimation: CGMS China( ); Morocco ( )
Yield estimation: BioMA China( ); Morocco ( )
Workshops: Kenya ( ); Morocco ( )
Training:
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DRSRS
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DRSRS
Workplan
2011
2012
2013
Theme Activity Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep OctNov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May JunJul Aug Sep Oct
Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Capacity Buidling
1Workshops
2Training (model)
3Training (parame)
4Calibration
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DRSRS
Thank you!