Remotely sensed surface soil moisture data was assimilated into a soil moisture model to improve forecasts of global vegetation productivity. The assimilation significantly improved correlations between root-zone soil moisture estimates and vegetation index anomalies compared to the model alone, especially in data-poor regions prone to food insecurity. Future work will apply the method to SMOS surface soil moisture data to further enhance global vegetation productivity forecasting.
Framework
Farm operators make strategic and tactic decisions based on dynamic climate and market processes. However, they do not access and use all the information enabled by powerful information technologies.
Summer Allen
WEBINAR
Using Satellite Imagery for Early Warning of Productivity Constraints
Organized by the Food Security Portal (FSP)
OCT 31, 2019 - 11:00 AM TO 12:30 PM EDT
Belen Franch
WEBINAR
Using Satellite Imagery for Early Warning of Productivity Constraints
Organized by the Food Security Portal (FSP)
OCT 31, 2019 - 11:00 AM TO 12:30 PM EDT
Framework
Farm operators make strategic and tactic decisions based on dynamic climate and market processes. However, they do not access and use all the information enabled by powerful information technologies.
Summer Allen
WEBINAR
Using Satellite Imagery for Early Warning of Productivity Constraints
Organized by the Food Security Portal (FSP)
OCT 31, 2019 - 11:00 AM TO 12:30 PM EDT
Belen Franch
WEBINAR
Using Satellite Imagery for Early Warning of Productivity Constraints
Organized by the Food Security Portal (FSP)
OCT 31, 2019 - 11:00 AM TO 12:30 PM EDT
Jake Campolo
WEBINAR
Using Satellite Imagery for Early Warning of Productivity Constraints
Organized by the Food Security Portal (FSP)
OCT 31, 2019 - 11:00 AM TO 12:30 PM EDT
Daily evapotranspiration by combining remote sensing with ground observations...CIMMYT
Remote sensing –Beyond images
Mexico 14-15 December 2013
The workshop was organized by CIMMYT Global Conservation Agriculture Program (GCAP) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Mexican Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), CGIAR Research Program on Maize, the Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) and the Sustainable Modernization of the Traditional Agriculture (MasAgro)
Climate and crop modeling by Gummadi Sridhar,Gizachew Legesse,Pauline Chiveng...ICRISAT
Climate effects on agriculture are of increasing concern in both the scientific and policy communities because of the growing population and the greater uncertainty in the weather during growing seasons. Changes in production are directly linked to variations in temperature and precipitation during the growing season and often to the offseason changes in weather because of soil water storage to replenish the soil profile. This is not an isolated problem but one of worldwide interest because each country has concerns about their food security.
Summary: The province of Mendoza can administrate water using digital tools that are used for the Science of Earth, and that way to optimize the use of resource, with an intrinsic impact on Economic Science, it is said projections on its productive array. Thus, early development of abilities on this kind of tools that takes part of the so-called Administration 4.0, allows to the professional future of Economic Science and more specifically to the Public Administrators, being more competitive, keeping up online with the new demands that visualize by the digital revolution that are undertaking.
Geospatial Techniques for Measuring SI Assessment Indicatorsafrica-rising
Presented by Vara Prasad [Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab - Kansas State University] about the geospatial techniques for measuring SI assessment indicators. This poster was presented on 5 - 8 February 2019 at the Africa RISING Program Learning Event.
Development and application of core attributes, A first approximation nation...Richard Thackway
Revegetation, including restoration and rehabilitation, is a major public-private strategy to protect natural resources, repair stressed ecosystems and habitats and is essential for maintaining sustainable production and delivery of ecosystem services. Revegetation and rehabilitation activities are funded via public or private investment, or a combination of both, at national, state and regional levels. A capacity to routinely track changes and trends in revegetation type, extent and condition at a national level has lagged behind considerable investments over several decades in on-ground strategic revegetation activities and changes in land management practices. The extent of revegetation may be derived from multiple sources including: regional surveys, remote sensing, catchment-based data and site-based inventory. States and territories use a range of methods to record and report site and landscape scale revegetation extent. Despite the development and endorsement of national standards for the tracking changes in the type, extent and condition of revegetation, these standards have not been systematically or comprehensively adopted at regional, state and national levels. The national standard was used to report on the extent of national revegetation using the best available regional and national scale data and information; the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Agricultural Census and the National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS). This approach provides a first approximation of changes in the extent of revegetation or rehabilitated land in Australia. Systematic and comprehensive monitoring and reporting of revegetation extent at site and landscape scales are critical for consistently evaluating successes of revegetation outcomes. Improved accuracy of reports would be achieved by using the national standard.
Drought monitoring and early warning in the MENA region: The ICBA contributio...NENAwaterscarcity
Workshop on Operationalizing the Regional Collaborative Platform to Address ‘Water Consumption, Water Productivity and Drought Management’ in Agriculture, 27 - 29 October 2015, Cairo, Egyp
II WORKSHOP INTERNACIONAL: GESTÃO SUSTENTÁVEL DE RECURSOS HÍDRICOS NA AGRICULTURA IRRIGADA:
Pesquisa, Políticas Públicas, Extensão Rural e Participação dos Agricultores do Nebraska, USA e do Oeste da Bahia, Brasil
AUDITÓRIO AIBA - BARREIRAS, BA
Climate Change and Future Food Security: The Impacts on root and Tuber CropsACDI/VOCA
Background: Climate Sensitivity of Agriculture
Importance or Root Crops to Jamaican Food Security
Estimating Yields (Manually)- Yield vs. Climate Dilemma
Methodology: Tools and Approaches
Results: Parameterization, Future Production under Climate Change
Conclusions: Climate Smart Implications & Main lessons learnt
Applications of ecological niche modelling for mapping the risk of Rift Valle...ILRI
Presentation by P.N. Kiunga, P.M. Kitala, K.A. Kipronoh, G. Mosomtai and B. Bett at the 9th biennial scientific conference and exhibition of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi, 3-5 September 2014.
Remote sensing based water management from the watershed to the field levelCIMMYT
Remote sensing –Beyond images
Mexico 14-15 December 2013
The workshop was organized by CIMMYT Global Conservation Agriculture Program (GCAP) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Mexican Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), CGIAR Research Program on Maize, the Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) and the Sustainable Modernization of the Traditional Agriculture (MasAgro)
Presentation on FAO's integrated climate change impact assessment tool called MOSAICC (Modelling System for Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change).
Info: MOSAICC@fao.org
Jake Campolo
WEBINAR
Using Satellite Imagery for Early Warning of Productivity Constraints
Organized by the Food Security Portal (FSP)
OCT 31, 2019 - 11:00 AM TO 12:30 PM EDT
Daily evapotranspiration by combining remote sensing with ground observations...CIMMYT
Remote sensing –Beyond images
Mexico 14-15 December 2013
The workshop was organized by CIMMYT Global Conservation Agriculture Program (GCAP) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Mexican Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), CGIAR Research Program on Maize, the Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) and the Sustainable Modernization of the Traditional Agriculture (MasAgro)
Climate and crop modeling by Gummadi Sridhar,Gizachew Legesse,Pauline Chiveng...ICRISAT
Climate effects on agriculture are of increasing concern in both the scientific and policy communities because of the growing population and the greater uncertainty in the weather during growing seasons. Changes in production are directly linked to variations in temperature and precipitation during the growing season and often to the offseason changes in weather because of soil water storage to replenish the soil profile. This is not an isolated problem but one of worldwide interest because each country has concerns about their food security.
Summary: The province of Mendoza can administrate water using digital tools that are used for the Science of Earth, and that way to optimize the use of resource, with an intrinsic impact on Economic Science, it is said projections on its productive array. Thus, early development of abilities on this kind of tools that takes part of the so-called Administration 4.0, allows to the professional future of Economic Science and more specifically to the Public Administrators, being more competitive, keeping up online with the new demands that visualize by the digital revolution that are undertaking.
Geospatial Techniques for Measuring SI Assessment Indicatorsafrica-rising
Presented by Vara Prasad [Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab - Kansas State University] about the geospatial techniques for measuring SI assessment indicators. This poster was presented on 5 - 8 February 2019 at the Africa RISING Program Learning Event.
Development and application of core attributes, A first approximation nation...Richard Thackway
Revegetation, including restoration and rehabilitation, is a major public-private strategy to protect natural resources, repair stressed ecosystems and habitats and is essential for maintaining sustainable production and delivery of ecosystem services. Revegetation and rehabilitation activities are funded via public or private investment, or a combination of both, at national, state and regional levels. A capacity to routinely track changes and trends in revegetation type, extent and condition at a national level has lagged behind considerable investments over several decades in on-ground strategic revegetation activities and changes in land management practices. The extent of revegetation may be derived from multiple sources including: regional surveys, remote sensing, catchment-based data and site-based inventory. States and territories use a range of methods to record and report site and landscape scale revegetation extent. Despite the development and endorsement of national standards for the tracking changes in the type, extent and condition of revegetation, these standards have not been systematically or comprehensively adopted at regional, state and national levels. The national standard was used to report on the extent of national revegetation using the best available regional and national scale data and information; the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Agricultural Census and the National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS). This approach provides a first approximation of changes in the extent of revegetation or rehabilitated land in Australia. Systematic and comprehensive monitoring and reporting of revegetation extent at site and landscape scales are critical for consistently evaluating successes of revegetation outcomes. Improved accuracy of reports would be achieved by using the national standard.
Drought monitoring and early warning in the MENA region: The ICBA contributio...NENAwaterscarcity
Workshop on Operationalizing the Regional Collaborative Platform to Address ‘Water Consumption, Water Productivity and Drought Management’ in Agriculture, 27 - 29 October 2015, Cairo, Egyp
II WORKSHOP INTERNACIONAL: GESTÃO SUSTENTÁVEL DE RECURSOS HÍDRICOS NA AGRICULTURA IRRIGADA:
Pesquisa, Políticas Públicas, Extensão Rural e Participação dos Agricultores do Nebraska, USA e do Oeste da Bahia, Brasil
AUDITÓRIO AIBA - BARREIRAS, BA
Climate Change and Future Food Security: The Impacts on root and Tuber CropsACDI/VOCA
Background: Climate Sensitivity of Agriculture
Importance or Root Crops to Jamaican Food Security
Estimating Yields (Manually)- Yield vs. Climate Dilemma
Methodology: Tools and Approaches
Results: Parameterization, Future Production under Climate Change
Conclusions: Climate Smart Implications & Main lessons learnt
Applications of ecological niche modelling for mapping the risk of Rift Valle...ILRI
Presentation by P.N. Kiunga, P.M. Kitala, K.A. Kipronoh, G. Mosomtai and B. Bett at the 9th biennial scientific conference and exhibition of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi, 3-5 September 2014.
Remote sensing based water management from the watershed to the field levelCIMMYT
Remote sensing –Beyond images
Mexico 14-15 December 2013
The workshop was organized by CIMMYT Global Conservation Agriculture Program (GCAP) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Mexican Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), CGIAR Research Program on Maize, the Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) and the Sustainable Modernization of the Traditional Agriculture (MasAgro)
Presentation on FAO's integrated climate change impact assessment tool called MOSAICC (Modelling System for Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change).
Info: MOSAICC@fao.org
Drought monitoring, Precipitation statistics, and water balance with freely a...AngelosAlamanos
The aim of this study is to showcase and discuss these new technologies for hydrometeorological studies. Six of NASA’s web-repositories that can be used to freely download and
visualise such spatial and/or time-series factors are listed and explained with examples for Ireland: ways
to access hydrological, meteorological, soil, vegetation and socio-economic data are shown, and
estimations of various precipitations statistics, anomalies, and water balance are presented for monthly
and seasonal analyses. The advantages, disadvantages and limitations of the satellite datasets are
discussed to provide useful recommendations about their proper use, based on purpose, scale, precision,
time requirement, and modelling-expansion criteria.
This presentation was given by Dr Eva Mockler, EPA Catchment Science and Management Unit, at the 2020 annual meeting of the Irish Freshwater Sciences Association.
It covers 4 tools:
1.Pollutant Impact Potential (PIP) Maps
2.SANICOSE Model for septic tanks
3.Source Load Apportionment Model
4.Morphological Quality Index for Ireland (MQI Ireland)
See www.freshwaterscience.ie and www.catchments.ie for more information.
Learn from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) about what their modeling and forecasting says about current and future weather patterns, and the impacts these patterns will have on agriculture, food security, climate, natural disasters, and more, especially for the Southeast.
Radar’s Potential to Estimate Crop Bio-Physical Parameters & BeyondCIMMYT
Remote sensing –Beyond images
Mexico 14-15 December 2013
The workshop was organized by CIMMYT Global Conservation Agriculture Program (GCAP) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Mexican Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), CGIAR Research Program on Maize, the Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) and the Sustainable Modernization of the Traditional Agriculture (MasAgro)
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...
Crow.IGARSS.talk.pptx
1. Enhancing vegetation productivity forecasting using remotely-sensed surface soil moisture retrievals Wade T. Crow USDA Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, USA John D. Bolten NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA Research funded by a grant from the NASA Applied Sciences Program (W.T. Crow PI, Bradley Doorn, program manager)
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3. Vital for economic competitiveness, national security and food security applications.
4. Utilizes a wide-range of satellite data sources, input databases, climate data, crop models, and data extraction routines to arrive at yield and areaestimates.
7. Monthly reporting cycle (< weekly latency).2-Layer Soil Moisture Model Analysts Global Rain and Met Forcing Data Crop Stress (Alarm) Models Crop Models
8. New USDA IPAD Treatment of Soil Moisture Funded by the NASA Applied Sciences Program (joint with NASA HSB, NESDIS STAR, USDA ARS, and USDA FAS, W.T. Crow PI, Brad Doorn, program manager) Remotely-Sensed Soil Moisture Data Assimilation 2-Layer Soil Moisture Model Analysts Global Rain and Met Forcing Data Crop Stress (Alarm) Models Crop Models
9. What is the added value of integrating remotely-sensed soil moisture information? Remotely-Sensed Soil Moisture Data Assimilation 2-Layer Soil Moisture Model Analysts Global Rain and Met Forcing Data Crop Stress (Alarm) Models Crop Models
20. LPRM snow cover maskNo data assimilation…yet LPRM soil moisture provides the most forecasting information
21. Soil moisture DA impact on lag = -1 month correlation Water Balance Model Only EnKF (Water Balance Model + LPRM AMSR-E) EnKF – Water Balance Model (Net Impact of LPRM AMSR-E)
22. Soil moisture DA impact on lag = -1 month correlation EnKF – Water Balance Model (Net Impact of LPRM AMSR-E)
23. Variation of added skill between “data-rich” and “data-poor” areas “Data-rich” countries July 20, 2011 - UN declares Somalia famine in Bakool and Lower Shabelle “Data-poor” and food-insecure countries
24. Conclusions 1) The assimilation of surface soil moisture retrievals significantly improves the utility of root-zone soil moisture estimates for vegetation condition/productivity forecasting. 2) Added benefits (relative to model-only) are relatively small in data-rich areas but large in data-poor locations prone to food insecurity. Future Work Apply to SMOS. Bolten, J.D. and W.T. Crow, “Improved forecasting of quasi-global vegetation conditions using remotely-sensed surface soil moisture,” in submission, 2011.
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