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Thank you Suchith!<br>
<br>
I immediately accept your invitation and diffuse an event regarding
Italian public (in particular kids) <br>
<br>
Its name is "A tu per tu con la ricerca - La sicurezza alimentare e
le risorse ambientali con il CNR", and it is hosted by the Museo
Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milan (Italy)<br>
The aim is diffusing the results and innovation of research about
challenges in food security and environmental resources <br>
In this framework IREA CNR researchers will held a seminar on <br>
<blockquote type="cite">Satelliti e matematica in campo<br>
DOMENICA ORE 15.00 E 17.00 • VISITA GUIDATA A #FOODPEOPLE<br>
Visita lo “schifidarium” della mostra per conoscere le piante e i
microrganismi che minacciano<br>
la crescita del grano e della vite e scopri in che modo la
matematica e le immagini satellitari<br>
contribuiscono a combatterli.</blockquote>
i.e. <br>
Satellites and maths in the field<br>
SUNDAY 28/02/2016, h 15.00 and 17.00<br>
A guided tour to know plants and micro-organisms threatening wheat
and grapes and to discover how maths and satellite images help
fighting them<br>
<br>
See program and invitation in attachment<br>
<br>
Paola<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Il 17/02/2016 01:34, Suchith Anand ha
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#000000;font-size: 10pt;">Dear Paola,<br>
<br>
Thank you for accepting our invitation. Many thanks for sharing
with us this information on these excellent AgriGIS research you
and colleagues are doing at the Institute for Electromagnetic
Sensing of the Environment of the National Research Council of
Italy.
<br>
<br>
1. We want to invite you to present a webinar for our Geo4All
webinar series so we can get more ideas and expanding
collaboration opportunities. Rafael will be in touch with you on
this.<br>
2. Please join and contribute ideas in our AgriGIS maillists and
invite other colleagues in ERMES project also to join and
contribute ideas for research, joint bids, publications etc.<br>
<br>
Looking forward to work with you on this.<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Suchith<br>
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color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Paola Carrara
[<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:carrara.p@irea.cnr.it">carrara.p@irea.cnr.it</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 16, 2016 4:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Suchith Anand<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a>; BORDOGNA
Gloria; Alessandro Oggioni; BOSCHETTI Mirco<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Invitation to join
our Geo4All AgriGIS research thematic and help contribute
to Global Food Security<br>
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<div>Dear Colleagues, <br>
<br>
as Geo4All Lab 103, we're happy to accept your invitation
and join the AgriGIS group
<br>
<br>
Our Institute, one of the oldest Italian institutions in the
field of satellite Remote Sensing, is engaged in projects
regarding applications in agriculture at different scales,
from the global to the regional one.
<br>
In particular IREA is coordinating the European FP7 Project
ERMES (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ermes-fp7space.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.ermes-fp7space.eu/</a>)
that integrated satellite RS and mobile technologies in
order to improve monitoring of rice cultivation and to
support farmers activities at a regional dimension.<br>
<br>
Citizen science, VGI and Sensor Web are also everyday
keywords in our Insititute. In particular, we're proud to
offer GET-It Starter Kut, an open and free software suite
enabling domain users in building OGC Web services (like
SOS, WMS, WFS), in uploading dataset and in editing
associated metadata (also for sensors used to collect data).<br>
<br>
Whoever wishes to know more of the above listed activities
is invited to write and, in the meanwhile, we're immediately
going to welcome your invitation<br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
Paola<br>
<br>
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Anand ha scritto:<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma;
color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Dear colleague,<br>
<br>
I am emailing you to invite you to join the <b>Geo4All
AgriGIS thematic</b> that is lead by
<b>Dr Didier Leibovici (University of Nottingham, UK ) </b>and
<b>Dr. Nobusuke Iwasaki ( National Institute for
Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES), Japan</b>).
<br>
<br>
Mobile broadband networks, location-based technologies,
sensor-web technologies and cloud computing offer the
potentials to develop location independent, sustainable
living and to provide flexible and low cost information
and services networks, linking individuals and
communities in a scale that transcends national
boundaries. Rapid developments in positioning,
broad-band mobile communications, sensor platforms,
sensor-web enablement, spatial search and pervasive
computing fundamentally change the access to and use of
location-based data for agriculture. However, the
necessary multi-disciplinary approach needed to
transform raw data and information into useful
intelligence and knowledge for scientists is still
constrained by disciplinary and organisational silo's
and legacy concepts. Geospatial interoperability and
open source standards-based GIS and open data will help
deliver holistic solutions in geospatial technologies in
AgriGIS by enabling the ready integration of separate
location relevant technologies and lowering costs. The
expanding range of open source GIS tools and open data
will greatly enhance the use of geospatial technologies
in agriculture and facilitates the sharing of
information across various stakeholders and
collaborative work.<br>
<br>
To give you some background information, myself and
Didier Leibovici in 2012 established AgriGIS theme [1]
at the University of Nottingham through a
<b>BBSRC funded GRASP research</b> [2] that we were
successful in collaboration with Plant Science
colleagues . The aim of establishing AgriGIS research
theme at Nottingham was to expand cross-disciplinary
research into the application of geospatial science to
agriculture, in genetic diversity including identifying
new sources of trait variation, planning breeding
objectives with local knowledge input, and evaluating
the effect of climate change scenarios . We also build
wider research collaborations with
<b>Crops for the Future , Malaysia</b> [3] and <b>the
Open Source Geospatial Lab, UNMC, Malaysia</b> (Tuong
Thuy Vu) [4] through various ongoing research (incl.
fully funded PhD studentships) and AgriGIS workshops
[5].
<br>
<br>
You can get some overview of GRASP from AgriGIS workshop
that we held at Nottingham
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://rd-alliance.org/sites/default/files/AgriGIS2014.pdf"
target="_blank">
https://rd-alliance.org/sites/default/files/AgriGIS2014.pdf</a> <br>
<br>
I am also contributing to RDA's Agriculture Data IG and
i have presented our work at the RDA Agriculture IG
session in Dublin in 2014 looking into
<b>Geospatial interoperability in Agriculture research</b>.
I also know the chair of the Agriculture IG , Devika
Madalli (Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore) and
other colleagues in the IG.<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://rd-alliance.org/group/agriculture-data-interest-group-igad/post/geospatial-interoperability-agriculture-research"
target="_blank">https://rd-alliance.org/group/agriculture-data-interest-group-igad/post/geospatial-interoperability-agriculture-research</a>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://rd-alliance.org/sites/default/files/GRASP_GFS_for_RDA_Dublin2014.pdf"
target="_blank">https://rd-alliance.org/sites/default/files/GRASP_GFS_for_RDA_Dublin2014.pdf</a>
<br>
<br>
Aiming to expand our AgriGIS research globally, we have
been building global research collaborations through our
involvement in global research initiatives like the
<b>Research Data Alliance (RDA)</b> ,for example leading
the Geospatial IG [4]. Research Data Alliance builds the
social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of
data. The RDA vision is researchers and innovators
openly sharing data across technologies, disciplines,
and countries to address the grand challenges of
society.The Research Data Alliance is supported by the
European Commission, the National Science Foundation and
other U.S. agencies, and the Australian
Government.Details at
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://rd-alliance.org/" target="_blank">https://rd-alliance.org/</a>
<br>
<br>
I am also in discussions for expanding collaborations
with Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition
(GODAN) initiative [7] . The<b> Global Open Data for
Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)</b> initiative seeks
to support global efforts to make agricultural and
nutritionally relevant data available, accessible, and
usable for unrestricted use worldwide. The initiative
focuses on building high-level policy and public and
private institutional support for open data. The
initiative encourages collaboration and cooperation
among existing agriculture and open data activities,
without duplication, and brings together all
stakeholders to solve long-standing global problem.
GODAN has high level governmental support (G7, United
Nations, FAO) and strong collaborations in place with
governments worldwide so it is important that we have
synergies with GODAN and work together AND support the
proactive sharing of open data to make information about
agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and
usable to deal with the urgent challenge of ensuring
world food security.<br>
<br>
Capacity Building and Training in the latest geospatial
technologies is key for staff and students in
Agriculture to take advantage of the technological
innovations in AgriGIS(removing the need for high cost
proprietary GI software).
<b>It will also encourage more collaborations and
startups which will help accelerate digital economy
for the future . This will create innovation
opportunities globally and locally.</b> For example,
the startup community is especially open to the use of
open software and data avoiding huge licensing costs and
restrictions which may impact on their business plans,
raise early start-up costs and restrict their ability to
innovate and it frees them of the need to use
proprietary software and data allowing them greater
branding freedom and product flexibility. <br>
<br>
BBSRC Funded GRASP is a good example of open philosophy
(open source, open standards, open data, open access )
in AgriGIS research and now with over 100 dedicated Open
Source Geospatial Labs already been established in
universities and research organisations around the world
as part of the "Geo for All" initiative in just two
year's time, we are now expanding research in AgriGIS
through our global research labs for this, so please
join us at
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-agrigis"
target="_blank">
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-agrigis</a> AND let
us work together to support open principles in
Agriculture research to deal with the urgent challenge
of ensuring world food security.<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Suchith Anand<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.geoforall.org" target="_blank">http://www.geoforall.org</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx"
target="_blank">
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx</a>
<br>
[2] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/projects/grasp-gfs.aspx"
target="_blank">
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/projects/grasp-gfs.aspx</a>
<br>
[3] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cffresearch.org/" target="_blank">http://www.cffresearch.org/</a>
<br>
[4] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx"
target="_blank">
http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx</a>
<br>
[5] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/documents/news-pdfs/agrigis2012proceedings.pdf"
target="_blank">
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/documents/news-pdfs/agrigis2012proceedings.pdf</a>
<br>
[6] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://rd-alliance.org/groups/geospatial-ig.html"
target="_blank">https://rd-alliance.org/groups/geospatial-ig.html</a>
<br>
[7] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.godan.info" target="_blank">http://www.godan.info</a>
<br>
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Via Bassini, 15
(ingresso Via Corti, 12)
I20133 Milan (Italy)
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