Objectives:

While food demand is increasing in this century due to rapid population growth, diet transition from grain to meat, use of crops for bio-fuel, we are facing the shortage of arable land and water resource for agri-food crop production, and the frequent hazardous weather events such as flood and drought under global warming. Simultaneously, we have to break the dependency of agricultural production on the excessive use of chemicals which causes serious environmental impact and threats food safety. The Task Group (TG) 5 particularly addresses SDG 2 (“End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”), SDG 1 (“End poverty in all its forms everywhere”), and SDG 13 (“Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts”) and indirectly SDG 10 (“Reduce inequality within and among countries”) and SDG 15 (“Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems”).

Realizing that earth observation at the global/regional/local scale is one of the key factors to address the above issues, several groups have been involved in the satellite and ground-level observations with a collection of statistical information and trying to apply such data to agricultural models for crop yield forecast and assessment of crop damage. In spite of the importance of merging data from satellite and ground observations for better decision-support systems, integration of multi-platform data with models and available statistical information is still limited.

In TG5, participants representing different observation platforms and decision-support systems will discuss the present status and perspectives of multi-platform observations for sustainable food production. TG5 will focus on the use of wide range of observations in different domains such as water management, biodiversity and forest management. The outputs in TG5 will be reflected to the GEO GLAM (Global Agriculture Monitoring) project for G20 action plan, especially Asia rice crop team activity in GEO GLAM and other international projects such as FAO and ASEAN Food Security Information System (AFSIS).

Co-Chairs:
   Thuy Le Toan (Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, France)
   Yoichiro Kato (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Session Co-organizers:
   Shinichi Sobue (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
   Kei Oyoshi (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)

Program:
Day 1 (24 Oct. 2018, Wed) (14:00-17:40)
･ Rice monitoring through satellite and ground-level observations (14:00-15:40)
Session Chair: Dr. Thuy Le Toan
  Dr. Shinichi Sobue (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) [PDF 3.1]
  Dr. Thuy Le Toan (Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, France) [PDF 4.8MB]
  Dr. Vorawit Meesuk (Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute, Thailand) [PDF 7.5MB]
  Dr. Kei Oyoshi (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
  Discussion

Coffee Break (15:40-16:00)

･ Rice monitoring for regional food security and environment (16:00-17:40)
Session Chair: Dr. Yoichiro Kato
  Dr. Jean Balié (International Rice Research Institute, Philippines) [PDF 5.9MB]
  Dr. Rokhis Khomarudin (National Institute of Aeronautics and Space, Indonesia) [PDF 1.9MB]
  Mr. Jovino Ropez De Dios (Philippine Rice Research Institute, Philippines) [PDF 5MB]
  Dr. Hironori Arai (The University of Tokyo, Japan) [PDF 4MB]
  Discussion

Day 2 (25 Oct. 2018, Thu) (9:30-13:00)
･ GEOGLAM outlook activities and crop yield estimation model (9:30-10:50)
Session Chair: Dr. Shinichi Sobue
  Ms. Christina Justice (University of Maryland) [PDF 15.6MB]
  Mr. Tsugito Nagano (Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan) [PDF 5.7MB]
  Dr. Toshichika Iizumi (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan) [PDF 3.2MB]
  Discussion

Coffee Break (10:50-11:10)

･ Panel Discussion (11:10-13:00)
  Moderators: Dr. Yoichiro Kato, Dr. Shinichi Sobue
  Panelists: Day 1 & 2 presenters
  Keywords: SDGs, Paris Agreement, Sendai Framework

Lunch (13:00-15:00)

Day 2 (25 Oct. 2018, Thu) (15:00-17:00)
･ TG1(Water)-TG5(Agriculture) Joint Session

1) Collaborative Research Topics/Sites
-Water monitoring (inundated monitoring) to rice fields
-Early warning of flood and drought

2) Implementation Planning

[TG5]
Dr. Thuy Le Toan (Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, France)
Dr. Rokhis Khomarudin (National Institute of Aeronautics and Space, Indonesia)
Dr. Jean Balié (International Rice Research Institute, Philippines)
Dr. Vorawit Meesuk (Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute, Thailand)