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International GEO Workshop on <strong>SAR</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Support</strong> <strong>Agricultural</strong> Moni<strong>to</strong>ring
• “The last point is the most important! 1 ”
Table 9 Fac<strong>to</strong>rs that Encourage Greater Operational Use of <strong>SAR</strong> Data
Influence existing and new <strong>SAR</strong> sensor development by
documenting the requirements of the agriculture community
with respect <strong>to</strong>:
• Spatial resolution
• Spatial coverage
• Temporal revisit/re-look
• Data latency/delivery
• <strong>SAR</strong> sensor parameters (frequency, polarizations, angles) 265
Document best practices or approaches <strong>to</strong> designing area
sample frameworks, data pre-processing and processing,
methods and accuracy assessments related <strong>to</strong> <strong>SAR</strong> and
agriculture 251
Encourage international space agencies <strong>to</strong> consider data
exchanges <strong>to</strong> meet the needs of the agriculture community 246
Develop a consensus on data policy needs for agriculture and
design a strategy <strong>to</strong> negotiate liberal data policies 239
Coordinate data procurement <strong>to</strong> take advantage of economies
of scale 221
Create an international team <strong>to</strong> assess interoperability among
sensors and <strong>to</strong> design approaches <strong>to</strong> inter-calibrate among
sensors 220
Encourage the creation of <strong>SAR</strong> satellite constellations <strong>to</strong>
improve data continuity, revisit, provide consistency and
prevent redundancy 133
1 However, the last point scored lowest! Some of the surveys that were sent out unfortunately did not allow
the respondents <strong>to</strong> enter a score for the last row, and this may explain the low score.
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