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The @FoodSecurityTEP will undergo a scheduled maintenance today (02/05/2019) from 11:00 to 18:00 CEST. This is necessary to update a number of #backend features. Running #services will be restarted automatically after the maintenance period. Please excuse the inconvenience!

Due to an update of the CREODIAS Sentinel catalogue, users may experience delays or unsuccessful processing jobs. Temporary outages may occur unitl 24/04/2019 14:00 CEST. Upgrade of the Sentinel catalogue will be going on until 25/04/2019. After that, the satellite data catalogue shall be complete again and updated to contain all data sets provided by Copernicus.

FS-TEP team collaborated with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to publish a spatial technologies guide that provides concepts and technical information on relevant technologies available to decision-makers, managers and technical personnel involved in disaster risk management (DRM) for aquaculture.

The Guide addresses the use of spatial technologies that support those working to reduce disaster risks and respond to emergencies in the aquaculture sector. It describes the principles for using spatial technologies in DRM and will therefore remain relevant, even in the context of rapid technological innovation and the advancement of these technologies.

"This summer’s drought is a harsh reminder of how unusual weather can cause havoc for farmers – even in a rich part of the world like Western Europe. While there is a wealth of satellite data available to help predict the risk of drought, it can be daunting for a non-expert to handle. ESA’s Food Security Thematic Exploitation Platform makes this task much easier."

Read more on what the Food Security TEP can do to support managing droughts in this article on the ESA website.

 

Do you have a great idea of how to use satellite information to help making agricultural in Europe and Africa sustainably more efficient? Do you want to try out the unique capabilities of the Food Security TEP as well? So we have good news for you! There is a limited budget still available for additional users within our Early Adopters Program! 

At the moment please contact us (info@foodsecurity-tep.net) with your short proposal of what you want to do. The invitation for short proposals is open as long as there is budget left, so take your chances today and contact us. If you are still unsure, please come back to this website soon as we will provide more information and help for applications on our website soon.

Just before the ESA PhiWeek 2018 in ESRIN, the Food Security TEP has been assigned a new domain: https://foodsecurity-tep.net

Sp if you want to contact us, please write us to info@foodsecurity-tep.net from now on.

But please don't worry, the old addresses will be valid for some more months!

On 5th and 6th of March 2018, the Food Security platform team organized a workshop at the ESRIN facilities of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Frascati, Italy bringing together its diverse agricultural user community. The workshop, titled “EO for Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture”, brought together stakeholders from the public sector including science and education, from the farming and insurance industry as well as from organizations providing EO services. More details can be found here.

On March 8, 2018 Hatfield Consultants led a user workshop titled “Supporting Sustainable Aquaculture Production from Space” at FAO in Rome, Italy. It brought together various stakeholders to discuss the use of high-performance cloud-computing systems that use satellite Earth Observation (EO) datasets to support sustainable aquaculture development. A short summary as well as the presentations can be found here.