Zhong
Liu, NASA Goddard GES DISC and George Mason University, zhong.liu-1@nasa.gov
(Presenting)
William
Teng, NASA Goddard GES DISC and RSIS, wteng@pop600.gsfc.nasa.gov
Steven
Kempler, NASA Goddard GES DISC, steven.j.kempler@nasa.gov
Hualan
Rui, NASA Goddard GES DISC and ADNET, hualan.rui-1@nasa.gov
Monitoring global agricultural conditions during growing season and estimating potential production are critically important for market development of U.S. agricultural products and for global food security.
An Agricultural Information System (AIS), developed by the NASA Goddard GES DISC, is based on the existing TRMM Online Visualization and Analysis System (TOVAS). The AIS will provide environmental data and information to support agricultural activities; specifically, it will operationally provide access to NASA satellite and other data products (e.g., rainfall, crop model outputs) and services.
The AIS will enable the remote, interoperable access to distributed data. The subsetting capability allows users to retrieve a specified spatial region from a large data set, eliminating the need to first download everything. The analysis capability allows users to retrieve the results of an operation applied to one or more data sets on the server.
Two major operational users of AIS are the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) and the U.N. World Food Program (WFP), along with others, such as, meteorological consulting companies.
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