Geomatics in support of the Common Agricultural Policy - Proceedings of the 17th GeoCAP Annual Conference, 2011
The 17th Annual Conference GEOCAP, took place from 23 to 25 November, in Tallinn, venue Meriton Hotel, and was organised by JRC MARS with the support of Estonian Ministry of Agriculture and of the Estonian Paying Agency (PRIA).The Conference covered the 2011 Control with Remote Sensing (CwRS) campai...
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Publications Office of the European Union
2012
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| Online Access: | https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC73275 https://doi.org/10.2788/52169 https://doi.org/10.2788/51820 |
| Summary: | The 17th Annual Conference GEOCAP, took place from 23 to 25 November, in Tallinn, venue Meriton Hotel, and was organised by JRC MARS with the support of Estonian Ministry of Agriculture and of the Estonian Paying Agency (PRIA).The Conference covered the 2011 Control with Remote Sensing (CwRS) campaign activities in the frame of CAP (common agricultural policy) controls for area-based subsidies. As usual, the Conference has offered an overview on the state of art technologies and methods applied to the above mentioned controls.Registered participants were 301, but 270 turned up. The composition of the audience was Commission Services, industry (image providers and software providers), Member States administrations (Ministries of Agriculture, Paying Agencies and academia). Participants came from all MSs, plus Croatia, Turkey, FYROM, Iceland, Switzerland and Norway. The opening speech was given by the Estonian Minister of Agriculture, Mr Seeder, The Conference format had the following structure:• Opening session dedicated to policy impact and policy developments.• 4 Parallel sessions dedicated to technical discussions and developments about sensors, GAEC controls, LPIS and GNSS. • Closing session dedicated (first part) to CwRS campaign statistics, GEOCAP WP, LPIS QA and (second part) to summarise sessions content then giving a forward look about policies, their implementation and technology.We had a total of 36 presentations: 13 by industry, 12 by JRC, 9 by MSs administrations and 2 by DG AGRI. There were also 6 posters, 3 by JRC MARS and 3 by industry.The presentations were made available on line. This publication includes the best of them according to the opinion of the Scientific Committee. JRC.H.4 - Monitoring Agricultural Resources |
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