Scientific Support to the ESA project "Global Monitoring for Food Security"

01.09.2010 - 31.08.2013

Auftragsforschungsprojekt

The Global Monitoring for Food Security (GMFS) project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) aims to provide early warning, agricultural mapping and crop yield assessment services in support of food security monitoring activities in Africa. So far GMFS has mostly relied on optical remote sensing data to characterize the status of the vegetation, now also soil moisture data provided by active microwave remote sensing instruments (ERS SCAT, METOP ASCAT) are considered. The role of TU Wien is to provide scientific advice and enable the setup of operational services by the GMFS project partner GeoVille.

Personen

Projektleiter_in

Wolfgang Wagner (E120)

Projektmitarbeiter_innen

Alexander Gruber (E120)
Richard Kidd (E120)

Institut

E120 - Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation

Contract/collaboration

GeoVille GmbH

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Environmental Monitoring and Climate Adaptation: 100%

Schlagwörter

Deutsch	Englisch
Bodenfeuchtigkeit	Soil Moisture
Scatterometer	Scatterometer
Erntevorhersage	Yield Forecasting
Nahrungssicherheit	Food Security

Externe Partner_innen

GeoVille Informationssysteme und Datenverarbeitung GmbH

Publikationen

Publikationsliste