| METART - ARTEMIS and AGROMET Data and Information |
| A profile of METART including links to visualize different applications such as low-resolution satellite images from the ARTEMIS archive, by product, or by country, to create graphs of satellite image time-series or to look at the weather over many parts of the world. It also contains a list of available software tools and documentation and further information about how the ARTEMIS and AGROMET dat... more |
| English: http://metart.fao.org/default.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Bringing Africa to the desktop: the ARTEMIS Charting Applet |
| The ARTEMIS Charting Applet represents a new way of bringing satellite derived information to the user. Enclosed in a small webpage is a complete charting programme, together with 20-years of satellite derived statistics covering Africa. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0502_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0502_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0502_es.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Agrometeorological Crop Forecasting |
| Low resolution satellite imagery, meteorological data and derived products and information on software tools, methods
and techniques used for environmental monitoring, crop forecasting, early warning, desert locust control and others from the ARTEMIS and Agrometeorology Groups, FAO Environment and Natural Resources Service (SDRN).
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/agromet/forecast.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| FAO activities: Environmental monitoring by satellite |
| A brief overview of FAO activities on environmental monitoring by satellite, including ARTEMIS system and the Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS). |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/EIre0007.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS) Partnership Forum during the Unispace III Conference |
| The Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS) intends to unite the major satellite and surface-based systems for global environmental observations of the atmosphere, oceans and land. It is a strategic planning process, involving many partners, that links research, long-term monitoring and operational programmes, as well as data producers and users, in a framework that delivers maximum benefit an... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/EIre0073.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Incorporating the use of VEGETATION data in FAO programmes |
| Data from low-resolution earth observation satellites have been used operationally by FAO for many years. The recent launch of the VEGETATION instrument on board SPOT, however, offers for the first time global coverage processed at a single
centre. This article describes the various actions taken to explore the new data and to make them routinely available for use in early warning for food securi... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/EIre0087.htm |
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