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4 Key Points of Workshop Discussion
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... The use of remote sensing data for human health is not as advanced as for food security beyond a few case studies, although the potential is great. Workshop participants identified three themes that, if fostered, would help realize the potential for the application of land remote sensing to decisions about human welfare: (1)
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... Data collected over the long term are vital to understanding and characterizing longer-period environmental cycles. Because of the highly technical nature of the topic, the workshop committee decided that a different venue would be more appropriate to address the specific technical issues in integrating disparate data types into decision support systems that address human welfare, although most participants believed that this topic is vital for improving the effectiveness of decision support systems.


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