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About
The AmeriGEOSS initiative (https://www.amerigeoss.org/about/overview) is a framework that seeks to promote collaboration and coordination among the GEO (http://earthobservations.org) members in the American continent, “to realize a future wherein decisions and actions, for the benefit of the region, are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations and information”.
The AmeriGEOSS Week 2018
The event took place from 6 to 10 August, 2018, at the National Institute for Space Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais – INPE) in São José dos Campos, São Paulo State, Brazil.
The main objectives of AmeriGEOSS Week 2018 were to share of good practices and knowledge within the priority areas established for the Americas region and develop new ways of strengthening relations. You will find next some of the presentations provided during the five days of the event. (https://www.amerigeoss.org/amerigeoss-events/amerigeoss-week-2018/)
AmeriGEOSS Week 2018 Final Agenda
Day 1
- GEO Overview and Future Plans (Gilberto Camara, GEO Secretariat)
- AmeriGEOSS Initiative Overview (Angelica Gutierrez, NOAA)
- EuroGEOSS Initiative Overview (Karine Siegwart, Swiss Federal Office for the Environment)
- MBON Initiative Goals and Outcomes (Frank Muller-Karger, University of South Florida)
Day 2
- AmeriGEOSS Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture GEOGLAM-Latinoamerica AMA-WG/GT (Alyssa Whitcraft, GEOGLAM Secretariat, USA)
- The CBERS Satellites (Joao Vianei Soares, INPE)
- Red Colombia de Agricultura (Cesar Valbuena Calderon)
- Estimating the impact of climate change on Brazil's agricultural sector (Marcia Zilli, INPE)
- Information for support systems for decision making in agricultural production: an Uruguayan example (Guadalup Tiscornia, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria)
- The Global Agricultural Monitoring (GLAM (Michael Humber, University of Maryland )
- GeoNetCast Americas (Luiz Augusto Machado, INPE)
- CEOS Working Group on Capacity Building and Data Democracy (Nancy Searby, NASA)
- Mapping Precipitation and Solar Potential in the Guiana Shield with Satellite Data (Tommy Albarelo, University of French Guiana)