Hello everyone,
Our February speaker will be Ramin Azar, who will be speaking about ERMES, a
service offering satellite-based assessments of rice crops in Italy.
This season we are again fortunate to be guests in the offices of the
Geological Survey of Canada at 605 Robson Street in Vancouver, in their 15th
floor boardroom. There is a link on the web site to Google Maps. Remember
that the talks will begin at 5:30. The lobby doors and the elevators are
locked at 6:00. Please try and be in before then. When you arrive on the 15th
floor you will see a sign directing you to the boardroom in the SW corner of
the building.
Hope to see you tomorrow,
Doug Hrynyk
Steering Committee Coordinator
Vancouver GIS Users Group
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7 February, 2018
Time: 5:30 pm
Topic: ERMES: An Earth obseRvation Model based RicE information Service,
European Project
http://www.ermes-fp7space.eu/en/about-ermes/project-summary/
Speaker: Ramin Azar, GIS & Remote Sensing specialist, Former Research
Consultant at National Research Council, Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing
of the Environment, Milan, Italy (CNR-IREA)
Food security is one of the most challenging tasks in the world. Italy produces
most of the consumed rice in Europe within its northern territories, along with
other European-Mediterranean countries such as Spain and Greece, most of the
rice production is in this region. European Union decided to run a project
under Horizon2020 program to support agricultural studies related to food
security. As the result ERMES project was started to develop a downstream
service based platform dedicated to rice farming systems based on Earth
Observation (EO) products and in-situ data within crop modeling solutions.
ERMES was launched to deliver two services, 1) The Regional Rice Service (RRS)
intended to provide public authorities in charge of regional planning with a
customized agro-monitoring system devoted to monitoring of crop status,
analysis of regional yield estimates and alerting on potential biotic and
abiotic risks. 2) The Local Rice Service (LRS) provides the private sector
(farmers or agro-services and insurance companies) with information on yield
variability at farm scale. Spatially distributed assessment in form of High
Resolution (HR) maps related to Cultivated area, Yield variability pattern,
Risk alert (biotic/abiotic) and Crop damage are disseminated to final End-User
via smart technology applications.
Bio: Ramin Azar is a GIS and Remote Sensing research consultant. He obtained
his PhD in remote Sensing from Politecnico di Milano, Italy and his Msc in GIS
& Remote Sensing from UPM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has worked in National
research Council of Italy for over 5 years participating in many different
Local, Regional, European and International projects. His specialty is in
Satellite data processing and natural resources monitoring along with GIS
multi-purpose applications. He recently moved to Canada, BC and wants to share
his experience in high-end international projects with you.
https://raminazar.weebly.com/
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