Monitoring crops using remote sensing and geospatial applications in Uruguay
01/07/2020
Innovative land cover monitoring and change detection applications are being used by the Ministry of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment of Uruguay (MVOTMA) with technical support from FAO for improved...
A remote sensing-based rapid assessment of Amphan cyclone in Bangladesh
01/06/2020
The super-cyclone Amphan slammed into the coast of eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday 20 May 2020, generating severe winds and heavy rainfalls, bringing heavy gales and the threat of...
Assessing impacts of 2019-2020 outbreak desert locust in the Horn of Africa using geospatial technologies
01/04/2020
The locust upsurge affecting East Africa is a graphic and shocking reminder of this region's vulnerability. The upsurge comes as an exacerbating factor to food insecurity. Indeed, the East and...
Remote sensing applications for monitoring floods in South Sudan
01/02/2020
Disasters affect people living, in particular, the most vulnerable communities and weather-driven natural hazards, including storm surges, floods, flash floods, and subsequent mass movements, are the most prominent natural disasters...
Agro-ecological zoning in Punjab helps to formulate strategies for sustainable and diversified use of natural resources
19/12/2019
Agriculture contributes approximately one-quarter of provincial gross domestic product (GDP) in the Punjab Province. The provincial share is two-third of the total national agricultural output, leading in major commodities meant...
Agro-ecological analysis should improve agricultural productivity in North Macedonia
06/12/2019
Improving productivity, increasing climate resilience of agricultural production, and making better informed policies in North Macedonia is now easier thanks to the establishment of national agro-ecological zones and an agro-environmental...
Collected in an agro-climatic atlas the results of the latest climate changes' studies in Afghanistan
22/11/2019
An agro-climatic atlas of Afghanistan has been developed by The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock through...
Improved agriculture monitoring systems through Satellite Imagery for the Islamic Republic of Iran TCP/IRA/3603
18/11/2019
Rome – A recent report on the first phase of the project ‘Improve agriculture monitoring systems through satellite imagery for the Islamic Republic of Iran’, reveals how the introduction of multi-temporal...
Land Cover Atlas of Jordan provides valuable baseline to monitor future land changes
19/07/2019
A new atlas expanding the coverage database of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is providing valuable baseline reference data that will support monitoring of land changes in the future.The atlas,...
FAO CBDS supporting innovative capacity building on land cover classification
24/06/2019
The recent availability of new satellite optical and radar Earth Observation missions, coupled with the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) pattern recognition technologies and integrated in cloud-based platforms such as...
On 13 June 2019, Geospatial Unit, CBDS, organized the Open House Day, at FAO HQs
21/06/2019
The Geospatial Unit organized the "Open House Day" to raise awareness and promote geospatial data and technology.FAO has more than 30 years of experience in the development and use of...
Use of Sentinel-1 imagery to support detection of land features
20/03/2019
With the increasing availability of multi-temporal and multi-sensor remote sensing imagery, mapping land features is less and less dependent on the existence of satellite information and more on the ability...
Ground-data collection training in Lao People's Democratic Republic
24/01/2019
11-23 January 2019, FAO’s Senior Land Resource Information Management Expert, Gianluca Franceschini trained the ground-data collection team working under the Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information System (SAMIS) project. The team...
South Sudan experts build their capacities in land use planning
20/11/2018
Experts from South Sudan increased their awareness on the land cover database that FAO is preparing and discussed about classification systems adopted suitable for their country adoption thanks to a...
FAO: Sharing and learning about latest trends in Earth Observation at the European Space Agency
16/11/2018
FAO’s Geospatial Unit took part in Earth Observation Week, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA). The event focused on Earth Observation (EO) Open Science and Future Earth Observation and took place...
Agricultural implications for ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change in Steppe ecosystems – Project updates
10/09/2018
FAO’s Subregional Office for Central Asia led workshops and field trips to the Turkish provinces of Ankara, Konya, Erzurum in July and September 2018 under the project ’Agricultural implications for...
Ecosystem based adaptation planning: ensuring continued food security in the Anatolian Steppe
29/05/2018
The Republic of Turkey’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (MFAL) is working on a detailed action plan to implement and monitor Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EBA) in the Anatolian Steppe following...
Consistent cross-border land cover assessments prove vital for natural resource management
02/04/2018
Last month’s workshop on Regional Land Cover Monitoring in Bangkok saw a strong coordinated effort among participating countries from the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region, to use the same land cover classification systems...
New developments for FAO’s Geospatial Unit
28/03/2018
This month FAO welcomed the new Head of the Geospatial Unit, Douglas Muchoney and launched this new website: ‘Geospatial information for sustainable food systems’. Both come at an opportune moment...
FAO provides technical support to build disaster resilience in Pakistan
19/03/2018
Under the ‘Building disaster resilience in Pakistan (BDRP)’ Programme, FAO’s Geospatial Unit has been supporting the implementation of Pakistan’s National Disaster Risk Reduction Policy Project in the Sindh and Punjab...