Abstract
Asian countries are responsible for approximately 90 % of the world’s rice production and consumption. As a result, rice is the most significant cereal crop in Asia. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) developed a work plan for monitoring the Asian rice crop in GEO Global Agriculture Monitoring (GEO-GLAM) as the Asia-Rice Crop Estimation and Monitoring (Asia-RiCE) project. In 2013, the GEO-GLAM project began to implement its Phase 1 proof of concept in selected countries, and the Asia-RiCE team set up 100 km × 100 km technical demonstration sites in Asia-RiCE team locations. This paper presents an overview of Asia rice crop monitoring in GEO-GLAM and Phase 1 implementation.
