Joint Workshop “Information Needs in Crop Monitoring”

On 22-23 of October in Kiev, Ukraine a Joint Workshop “Information Needs in Crop Monitoring” funded by European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and co-funded by the UN-SPIDER office of UNOOSA will be held.

Representatives from institutional users in Ukraine and neighboring countries,  governmental representatives from the EU and technology experts from neighboring countries, international programmes and European institutions will be invited.

At the meeting of governmental representatives with Ukrainian and international experts in agricultural monitoring domain it will be discussed how actual requirements for information on agricultural statistics, crop monitoring and crop production can be threated with modern satellite based technologies. Feasibility of specific future actions under national, bi-lateral or joint collaboration, as well as identification of common research and development needs and possible funding mechanisms will be discussed.