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Establishment of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for Food and Agriculture

Year of publication 2016

Pages 2p.

Author DDNS

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

ISBN No ISBN

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) There is no world-wide common platform that stores and provides core data and information related to the assessment, monitoring and mapping of agri-food, environmental and water resources through indicators derived by the combination of remote sensing, geospatial anlysis, in-situ measurement and country reporting. The initiative aims to establish it.

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