Environmental data sets provided
byInstitute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO

Takuji Kiura (kiura@affrc.go.jp, kiura.naro@gmail.com)
Senior Researcher
Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

Institute for Agro-Environment Sciences, NARO
• National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (〜2016-03-31)https://www.niaes.affrc.go.jp/index_e.html (will be closed soon)• Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food ResearchOrganization (2016-04-01〜)
https://www.naro.affrc.go.jp/english/niaes/index.html• Takuji Kiura• Agroinformatis Division, Agricultural Research Center, NARO (〜2016-03-31)• Division of Informatics and Inventory, Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences,
NARO (2016-04-01〜)
NARO
NARO

NIAES

NIAES

(〜2016-03-31)(2016-04-01〜)

Data and Maps (old page, in English)

http://www.niaes.affrc.go.jp/newtopie.html

Data & Maps (new page, in English)

https://www.naro.affrc.go.jp/english/niaes/dat
abase/index.html

Agro-Environmental Data Center (gamsDB)

MeteologicalSoil

GHG

Agro-Stat

Mesh
Point

http://agrienv.dc.affrc.go.jp/

Meteorological Data
Point Data
• Point: AMeDAS + JMA Weather Stations• Daily data : air temperature(mean, min, max), precipitation, air pressure, vaporpressure, vapor pressure deficit, relative humidity(mean, min, max), max wind velocity,
sunshine duration, solar irradiance, downward long-wave radiation, potential
evaporation, FAO reference evapotranspiration, water temperature (LAI=0, ∞)Downscaled data
• App. 1km x 1km mesh• Daily data: air temperature(mean, min, max), sunshine duration, solar radiation,
precipitation

Soil Data•••••Mesh data
2001 onlyDominating soil typeArea of soil surface types including agricultural field
Soil temperature (30 – 50 cm depth)

GHG Data••••

Point Data (9 locations, 27 paddy fields)
CO2, nitrous oxide, methane flux
User: ghgdatabaseuser, password: gamsdbuser is required
Oops! Currently filtered by MAFFIN web application firewall!!

Agro-Stat Data
• Mesh data
• Aproxmately 1km x 1km• Yearly• Cultivated area (paddy, others), crop area(wheat, pseudocereals, root vegetables,pulses, vegetables, flower, orchard, tea), number (cows, pig, chicken)

Application (MeteoCrop DB)• Meteorological Data and Rice
growth model integration• Estimate growing stage andpanicle temperature

http://meteocrop.dc.affrc.go.jp/

Field Server Data
• IoT device for Agriculture, NARO
• Http://fsds.dc.affrc.go.jp/data[1-4]/• > 100 million files without controlled metadata• > 64 million time series images• > 36 million observation dataIssues• Data policy is not clear in NARO
• Sometime difficult to publish data
• Divisions decide to publish and researchers are taking
care of their sites• Shortage of budget, or movement of researcher
means discontinueity of the site
• Data is provided without metadata using controlledterms (i.e. Web Ontology)• Data sets and maps provided in Japanese only
• English pages poorly described• Using data access APIs, but no document

Plan (2016-04-01 – 2021-03-31)• Publish data in NIAES• increase data sources• increase downscaled items• increase crop models• improve• Open data
• Metadata with controlled, standardized terms• provide to DIAS!!
• API• crop model service API• data access service API• Open access• Documentation in Japanese and English

Idea• 1km x 1km estimation of rice growing stageeveryday• paddy field coverage using satellite• heading date using UAV and field server• high density ground truth data using fieldserver• detection of trans-plantation date, disasterdamage, plant height using satellite, UAV, IoT• computing powerSummary• NIAES provides 28 data sets or maps in Japanese, but only 10in English• Agro-Environmental data sets are provided at AgroEnvironmental Data Center (gamsDB)( http://agrienv.dc.affrc.go.jp/ )• Language: Japanese only
• Coverage: Japan• Agro-Meteorological (Observed and Estimated), Soil
(Chemical and Physical), Green House Gas Flux,
Agricultural Statistical data
• Point data and mesh data (1km x 1km, if possible)• Application: MeteoCropDB (Rice growth model using gameDBpoint data) (http://meteocrop.dc.affrc.go.jp/ )• Planning to open data in NIAES in English