(SAR) to Support Agricultural Monitoring 2 - Group on Earth ...

International GEO Workshop on <strong>SAR</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Support</strong> <strong>Agricultural</strong> Moni<strong>to</strong>ring
• Water Availability: (Leader- Brad Doorn, National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, USA; Rapporteur- Estuardo Lira Prera,
USDA-APHIS-IS, Guatemala)
• Land Cover and Land Management: (Leader- Anne Smith,
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Rapporteur- Emil Cherring<strong>to</strong>n,
CATHALAC, Panama)
Special no-host dinner, cultural and networking evening (18:30)
Featured speaker: Robert Sandford (In<strong>to</strong> the Wild: Acts, Accidents & Heroes Who
have Defined Place in the Rockies)
Workshop Day 3: Wednesday – 4 November (8:30-17:00)
8:30-10:00: Breakout 1 (continued) on the technical and operational requirements,
challenges and strategies for exploitation of <strong>SAR</strong> in agriculture
10:00-10:30: Health Break
10:30-11:00: Reporting on breakout session
Session Chair: Don Ball (DB Geoservices Inc, Canada)
Session 4: Bridging the Discovery <strong>to</strong> Delivery Continuum – Capacity
Building Activities and Opportunities
Session Chair: Johnson Owaro (GEO Capacity Building Programme
Secretariat, Uganda)
11:00-11:20: RADARSAT-2: Science and Operational Applications Research (SOAR)
Program
Stéphane Chalifoux (Canadian Space Agency, Canada)
11:20-11:40: Agri<strong>SAR</strong> 2009 Campaign: Overview, Early Results and Analysis Plan
Ron Caves (MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., Canada)
11:40-12:10: Developing Earth Observation Agriculture Moni<strong>to</strong>ring Capacity
Building Programs in Developing Countries: Major Considerations and
Practices
Johnson Owaro (GEO Capacity Building Programme Secretariat,
Uganda)
12:10-12:30: Capacity Building in Earth Observation Applications for <strong>Agricultural</strong>
Moni<strong>to</strong>ring in Africa and Central America: A FEWSNET Perspective
Tamuka Magadzire (FEWS-NET, Botswana)
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