Glad to contribute to this very interesting Webinar organized by FAO: In the context of the Soil-Land-Water Digital Integrated Information System (SoLaWISe) initiative, the webinar entitled “Adaptive and innovative tools and approaches for crop mapping” is designed in order to address strategies and tools for effective mapping and monitoring of crop types with worldwide applications. Agenda 10:00 - 10:05 Opening - Introduction of the event "Mapping crops to support SoLaWISe initiative: adaptive and innovative tools and approaches" Matieu Henry, Technical officer, Geospatial Unit, FAO 10:05 - 10:25 Introduction to remote sensing data and tools applied to crop type mapping Gautam Dadhich, Geospatial expert, FAO; Dario Spiller, Land use and land cover specialist, FAO 10:25 - 10:35 Field data collection, accuracy assessment and validation Filippo Sarvia, Land and crop monitoring specialist, FAO 10:35 - 10:45 SAR remote sensing for crop mapping and monitoring in India Vineet Kumar, Assistant Professor - Centre for Geoinformatics, JTSDS, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India 10:45 - 10:55 Data-driven solutions for crop type phenology and dynamic land use mapping from remote sensing Andries Potgieter, Associate Professor - Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI); University of Queensland 10:55 - 11:05 Artificial intelligence to advance Earth observation with practical applications Fabio Del Frate, Full professor, Tor Vergata University of Rome 11:05 - 11:15 Remote sensing based crop monitoring during flood event in Mozambique José Bofana, Research Assistant - Faculdade de Ciências Agronómicas, Universidade Católica de Moçambique 11:15 – 11:25 Questions and discussion 11:25 – 11:30 Closing remarks Sven Gilliams, Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring
