(22 March 2018)

On March 8, 2018 Hatfield Consultants led a workshop at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy bringing together stakeholders to discuss the use of high-performance cloud-computing systems that use satellite Earth Observation (EO) datasets to support sustainable aquaculture development. The workshop, titled “Supporting Sustainable Aquaculture Production from Space”, brought together stakeholders from academia, the private sector, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the FAO.

This workshop was organized as part of the Food Security Platform project that is developing a cloud-computing system that offers satellite EO data as well as auxiliary data and tools to analyze data for food security. Aquaculture is a focus for the second phase of the project, commencing in March 2018. Three pilots will be conducted over the two phases (two in agriculture, one in aquaculture) to showcase the capabilities of the Platform.

The focus of the workshop was to share knowledge of how satellite EO and geospatial platforms can be used for aquaculture, and to documented requirements for the aquaculture service trial that are planned to take place in Tanzania using the Food Security Platform.

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