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Setting the Scene: Integrated Flood Risk Management

26 July 2018
Flooding is the most frequent and the most damaging of all natural hazards. It comprised 43% of all recorded natural events affecting nearly 2.5 billion people. As urbanization accelerates, damages and losses due to floods will likely increase. There is no one-size fits all flood protection…

Increase Agricultural Productivity and Natural Resource Monitoring

25 July 2018
Earth observation can provide the tools to monitor the status and trends of production in agricultural areas. It can provide a continuous assessment of agricultural production. It can rapidly show where change happens in a consistent and unbiased manner.

Introduction and Welcome

25 July 2018
Earth Observation for Sustainable Development or EO4SD is a dedicated program for sustainable development. It aims to show the effectiveness of Earth observation-based products and services in agriculture and rural development. Through satellite data, EO4SD demonstrates how remote sensing can…

Monitoring and Evaluation Using Earth Observation

25 July 2018
Earth observation can be a very useful tool for monitoring and evaluation. It can help monitor land degradation and productivity and quantify trends to improve performance. it can also contribute to strategic management and capacity building.

Monitoring and evaluation using Earth Observation

25 July 2018
The Water SG and Agriculture TG, in cooperation with European Space Agency, sponsored a one-day training to build staff awareness on the utility and potential benefits of using Earth Observation information services for agriculture and rural development.

Optimize Water Use Efficiency

25 July 2018
Water is indispensable to food security. To achieve high food production in a world with rising population, water management should be top priority. Earth observation can assist in this regard. It can provide estimates of already irrigated areas and identify land suitable for irrigation. It can…

Inundation Frequency Mapping

25 July 2018
We need to increase agricultural productivity while decreasing agricultural risks to be able to feed the projected 2 billion increase in the global population by 2030. Inundation mapping and analysis through earth observation can help achieve these twin goals. Earth observation can generate reports…

Earth Observation Services in the Context of Sustainable Development: Key Concepts, Examples and Opportunities

25 July 2018
Earth observation through remote sensing can bring many advantages to agriculture and food production. Remote sensing is the science of acquiring information about a specific subject from a distance. It is a tool to study the environment. When its use is maximized, earth observation can help…

An Overview of Available Satellite Data and Services

25 July 2018
The Water SG and Agriculture TG, in cooperation with European Space Agency, sponsored a one-day training to build staff awareness on the utility and potential benefits of using Earth Observation information services for agriculture and rural development.

OnTrackPH: Driving Data on Philippine Roads and the Path Forward

23 July 2018
Stef Sy, CEO of Thinking Machines presented OnTrackPH - a big data machine learning and natural language processing algorithm - that enabled the fast, efficient, and scalable matching of government records across multiple disparate government databases to link national budgets to project across the…