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Dear Colleagues,
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<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 class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ermes-fp7space.eu/">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>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Il 13/02/2016 08:52, Suchith Anand ha
scritto:<br>
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#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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