GEO-GLAM
Asia-RiCE: Rice Crop Estimation andMonitoring status

Shin-ichi Sobue
January 12, 2017

Agriculture and Food Security
Task 5 is GEOGLAM Asia RiCE crop team activity and ground based observation / field survey network
in Asia for Agriculture and Food Security.

www.asia-rice.org

satellite agro-met
information (JASMIN)

Observations
Remote sensing and filed survey

Rice-plantd Area
(INAHOR)

Publish “MarketMonitor” (FAO)
ID Asia Rice Target Agricultural Products
P1 Rice Crop Area Estimates/Maps
P2 Crop Calendars/Crop Growth Status
P3 Crop Damage Assessment
P4

Information delivery for action

P5

Agro-meteorological Information
ProductsProduction Estimation andTake action

Background of GEOGLAM/Asia-RiCE• The GEO GLAM serves as a useful input for the AMIS. (four type ofcommodity crops – wheat, maize, rice, and soybeans)• Since rice is the main commodity crop in Asia, Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency (JAXA) proposes and leads the Asian Rice Crop Estimation &Monitoring project (Asia-RiCE) for GEO GLAM.
• Asia-RiCE is a collaborative effort between a number of Asian organizations.

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Asia-RiCE Home Page – www.asia-rice.org

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Asia-RiCE Target Agricultural Products
Example of Products
ID

ProductP1

Rice Planting Area Estimates andMapping

P2

Crop Calendars/Crop GrowthStatus

P3

Crop Damage Assessment

P4

Agro-meteorological Information
Products

P5

Production Estimation andForecasting

P1: Planted Area

P2: Crop Calendar

P3: Drought Warning

P4: Precipitation

Asia-RiCE Work Plan http://www.asia-rice.org/files/workplan.pdf

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Major Achievements- Rice Crop Area Estimates/Maps -1. Content• Time series SAR data from multiple providers to estimate rice planted area, growing status, etc.
(Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan and others).
• NASA/CEOS SEO developed & tested a cloud computing SAR processing (INAHOR) platform forIndonesia• GEORIICE for Vietnam• ADB project for 4 countries – rice crop area estimation Innovative Data Collection Methods for
Agricultural and Rural Statistics results sharing finished by November 2016 with holding regionalworkshop
2. Target area and period• Phase 1 (from 2014).
Technical demonstration sites (100x100km) in Asia
countries & focus on development of provincial-level
rice crop area estimations.
• Phase 2 (from 2016).
Wall-to-Wall: 1) Low mekong region – Vietnam andCambodia, 2 9 Top 10 rice production provinces inIndonesia, Add new countries : Myanmar andCambodia. JECAM coordination

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Indonesia
SubangJapan
Yamagata

Vietnam(S)An Giang

Chinese Taipei

ThailandSphan Buri

Malaysia
Barat Laut Selango7

Data distribution system for Asia-RiCE KC4• Since AUIG-2 account isprovided for PI only, we
have to distribute data to CI
after getting the productsby AUIG-2.
• We developed a websystem to distribute
PALSAR-2 data to CI.
• The system requires ID &password so that CI can’t
get other country’s data.

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Major Achievements- Monthly rice crop outlook / Agro-meteorological
Information Products • Provision agro-meteorological information derived
from satellites with NDVI• Worked with ASEAN food security information system(AFSIS) to provide crop condition overview
information and outlooks for FAO AMIS through
GEOGLAM• The JAXA/RESTEC
teams developed theJASMIN (agro-met
information provisionsystem for outlook)tools
9 / 10Major Achievements- Monthly rice crop outlook / Agro-meteorologicalInformation Products Drought IndexNakhon
SwanMay, 2015
Red color = high number

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Asia-RiCE Strategic Issuess
Contribution to UN SDG2 through how and with who? Indicator (GEO-FAO->>>>) for end
hunger, ahieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture)
Secure observation, continued and easy data access: Share observation / acquisition planof multiple satellites at one site to conduct information validation for rice growing andproduction estimation (especially for wall-to-wall (whole country – country scale) starting frommain crop area of Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand) in cooperation with CEOS
Need Support ICT environment with applications for data archive and processing
Expand SDMS / cloud computing system to do practical use for end users such as
Ministries of Agriculture -> in cooperation with CEOS Data Cube and Servir-Mekong
Promote EO data and related information sharing (especially ground base data and baseline map such as LULCC / rice crop mask, rice crop calendar, etc.)
Promote cross validation for outlook and rice crop growing and production estimation ->Develop standard ground observation data collection method guideline
Promote regional coordination (need donor such as ADB, UN-ESCAP, MRC, CEOS, andGEO support, and contribution/endorsement from national monitoring systems)
Sustained institutional support to promote satellite data usage & validation (many Asian
11 / 10countries are developing countries)

New Draft
Organizational
Framework for
GEOGLAMCEOS Plenary 2016, 1-2 November

12How GEOSS can / should contribute to SDGs

• To understand current and future perspectives of foodproduction and consumption• To map current activities onto action items for SDGs
• To prioritize current activities for SDGs
• To discuss how agriculture related observations and data areimportant for SDGs
• Etc.

CEOS Plenary 2016, 1-2 November

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SDG 2: End hunger, achieve the food security
and improve nutrition, and promote sustainableagriculture.
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By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations,
including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year roundBy 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting andwasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating
women and older persons
By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women,indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, otherproductive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and nonfarm employment
By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase
productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change,
extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and theirrelated wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national,
regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from theutilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed
Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agriculturalresearch and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance
agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries
Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel
elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordancewith the mandate of the Doha Development RoundAdopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely
access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility

CEOS Plenary 2016, 1-2 November

14Agri-GEOSSAGRICULTURE THEMATIC COMMUNITY• Support of the SDG 2: End hunger, achieve the food security andimprove nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
• Support the development of a Latin American Regional GEOGLAM.
• Greater collaboration between US and Canada on GEOGLAM activities.
• Enhance current GEOGLAM monitoring activities to better encompass
the priorities of Latin America (e.g. regionally important crops).
o Early Warning Crop Monitor (for countries-at-risk)o (eventually) Rangeland & Pasture Productivity (RAPP) Monitoro (eventually) full GEOGLAM Crop Monitor (all crops ofnational/regional importance)• Continue to develop the Rangeland & Pasture Productivity (RAPP) subInitiative (www.geo-rapp.org)
o Australian leadership; large focus on South America.
o Further grow Community of Practice.
o Seek participation of aquaculture and fisheries.
CEOS Plenary 2016, 1-2 November15