Keynote presentation to Agro-Geoinformatics Conference
20 July 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
http://agro-geoinformatics.org/
** What is agro-geoinformatics and why need for exchange of Agriculture Geo-Information?
Efficient exchange of data on utilization of farmland, soil and crop characteristics, water availability, environmental impacts, …
Many user roles: growers, advisors, landowners, foodstuff processors, regulators and all levels of government
Major challenges to agricultural: climate change, increasing population, shortage of water and arable land
Increasing need for information standards to support transparency in agricultural goods and services markets
** Projects showing the progress of standards-based agro-geoinformatics technology
SoilML for information exchange
Soil information platforms
Precision Agriculture and In-situ networks
Remote sensing from satellites and drones
Big Data processing for decision support
Climate - Food - Water nexus
** OGC support of Agro-Geoinformatics
- Agriculture Domain Working Group
Identify geospatial interoperability challenges in agriculture domain
Forum to identify standards-based solutions, new standards
- Discrete Global Grid Systems standards development
Geometric partitioning of Earth surface into cells with identifiers
Enable fusion of disparate data for spatial analysis and modeling
- Soil Data Interoperability Experiment (SoilIE)
Testing standards for exchange of soils data
Results to converge and mature soil information standards.
Get involved as participant or an observer, contact:
David Medyckyj-Scott Medyckyj-Scottd@landcareresearch.co.nz
…and others
6. OGC
®
Agriculture Info Exchange Environment
Agriculture System
Product,
Production
Information
Equipment-based
Recording
In-situ
and Remote
Sensing
Maps
Geo-data
Source: Frans van Diepen, frans.vandiepen@rvo.nl OGC TC March 24, 2014
7. OGC
®
• Urgent need for more
information on soils at varying
geographic scales
• Diversity of data makes
integration and harmonisation
difficult
• Soil data needs to be freely
available and in formats that
can be readily used for a wide
range of purposes
• Need for harmonization of
methods
UN General Assembly declared 2015
The International Year of Soils
16. OGC
®
2www.foodie-project.eu
One platform for all the most common tasks
• Production planning
• Production monitoring, alerting and analyses
• Subsidies management
• Environmental burden monitoring
Ownership of farmer’s data
• Farmer’s data are private and sensitive data
• Remains farmer’s property
Modularity
• Customizable and scalable platform
User needsFOODIE project
• Creating a platform where spatial and non-spatial data
related to agricultural sector are available in the cloud
for agri-food stakeholders
• One Platform for most Common Tasks
– Production Planning
– Production monitoring, alerting and analyses
– Subsidies Management
– Environmental Burden Monitoring
• Project is defining Data Models and APIs
20. OGC
®
GeoWebAgri Project - FMIS interoperability
• Interoperability with commercial FMIS demonstrated with
real farm data exchange via WFS and WFS-T (ISO 19142)
• Proved that agricultural machines can request and update
field operational data on-line, in real time and at high
update rate using open standards.
• Agricultural machinery supporting a web client platform can
use several services simultaneously (‘scalability’)
• However, complex feature mapping is needed, i.e.
knowledge of the domain via GML application schema (ISO
19109) used with SoilML and many others
Source: Nørremark, M. et.al., “Data interchange between Web client based task controllers and
management information systems using ISO and OGC standards”, EFITA-WCCA-CIGR Conference:
Sustainable Agriculture through ITC Innovation, Torino, Italy, June 2013
21. OGC
®
GeoWebAgri Spatial Data Components
Implement
actuator
Interface InterfaceService FMIS
SQL database
Web client
Electronic control
unit (ECU) and
terminal
Controller
Data acquisition
Web serverGML
(ISO
19136)
XML
(SOAP)
Web client
Web browser
Task
management
Data utilisation
WFS
(ISO 19142)
Transactional-
WFS (ISO19142)
Source: Nørremark, M. et.al., “Data interchange between Web client based task controllers and
management information systems using ISO and OGC standards”, EFITA-WCCA-CIGR Conference:
Sustainable Agriculture through ITC Innovation, Torino, Italy, June 2013
24. OGC
®
Real-time In-situ Soil Monitoring in Canada
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada deployed network of
monitoring stations for soil moisture, soil temperature and
meteorological data for the main crop types, soil textures
• Near real-time data helps researchers develop better
predictive models for crop yield or flooding using soil
moisture values from satellite imagery
• Canadian producers can use this information in adjusting
their operational decisions based on changing weather,
water and climate conditions.
• SMAP Validation Site - Data sharing will occur for the
duration of the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)
Source: Allan Howard, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
25. Locations of In-Situ Monitoring Sites
25
Real-Time In-Situ Soil Monitoring for Agriculture (RISMA)
Source: Allan Howard, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
26. Data Collection and Dissemination
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Data recorded at 15 min intervals
and transmitted hourly:
Soil Moisture (m3/ m3)
Soil Temperature (oC)
Precipitation (mm)
Air Temperature (oC)
Relative Humidity (%)
Wind Speed (m/sec)
Wind Direction (deg)
Solar Radiation (MJ/ m2)*
*At some sites
Datalogger
Telecom
AAFC Firewall
Data Receiver
LoggerNet &
Adcon Gateway
Processing
& Storage
Server
Internet
SOS Server
Raw and QC
Data
AAFC Internet
Server
Download
via User-
Friendly
Website
Download
via AAFC
FTP
Real-Time In-Situ Soil Monitoring for Agriculture (RISMA)
Source: Allan Howard, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
28. OGC
®
SMAP's Radiometer
captures views of
Global Soil Moisture
• SMAP = Soil Moisture
Active Passive
– NASA spacecraft
– Rotating 6-m reflector
– L-band radar and
L-band radiometer
• Global soil moisture
– 3 Day Composites of
SMAP radiometer data
– Volumetric water
content in top 5 cm
29. OGC
®
SMAP's Radiometer
captures views of
Global Soil Moisture
• SMAP = Soil Moisture
Active Passive
– NASA spacecraft
– Rotating 6-m reflector
– L-band radar and
L-band radiometer
• Global soil moisture
– 3 Day Composites of
SMAP radiometer data
– Volumetric water
content in top 5 cm
30. OGC
®
SMAP EASE-Grid 2.0
• Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid)
• Global-scale gridded data
– Defined on WGS 84 ellipsoid
– GeoTIFF compatibility
– Simplified nested grids
• Data from various sources
expressed as digital arrays
of varying grid resolutions
• Visualization and intercomparison are
simplified, making analysis more convenient
Source: Brodzik, et. al., ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2012, 1, 32-45; doi:10.3390/ijgi1010032
34. RFCLASS – Remote Sensing based Flood Crop
Loss Assessment Service Systems
• Online system supported with
Open Geospatial Web services
• OGC WCS, WMS, WFS are the
backbone components
• Crop loss assessment using crop
condition profiles
• Flood time series analyses
Source: GMU, AIP-6 Agriculture/Disaster Engineering Report, 2014
35. GADMFS - Global Agricultural Drought Monitoring
and Forecasting System
• Low latency information production
with Open Geospatial Web
services
• OGC WCS, WMS, WFS supports
data access
• Global coverage
• Interactive query, visualization and
data retrieval
Source: GMU, AIP-6 Agriculture/Disaster Engineering Report, 2014
41. DEMAND INCREASES FOR
FOOD, ENERGY & WATER
2010 2050
FOOD
2010 2050
ENERGY
2010 2050
WATER
Food-energy-water nexus risk
The 2050 perfect storm
33% to >9
BILLION
WORLD’S POPULATION
BOOMS
biofuels
hydro-
electric
http://www.ecoclimax.com/2010/06/2030-perfect-storm.html
20102050
URBAN AREAS ABSORB
GROWTH
70% LIVE IN
CITIES
2010 2050
DEMAND
increases
50%
DEMAND
increases
50%
DEMAND
increases
30%
Presented by Brant Foote, NCAR to to WWHGD WG Meeting –
Climate and Human Security Symposium: June 03 & 04 - Univ of Colorado, Boulder