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... Although remotely sensed data are combined with other data types for purposes such as weather forecasting, remotely sensed observations of the land surface are not routinely applied to decisions about human welfare. This report summarizes a two-day workshop on the contributions of land remote sensing to human welfare decisions.
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... Applications of land remote sensing to monitor crop yields, enable precision agriculture, and identify impending food shortages in developing countries offer successful examples. The use of remote sensing data for human health is not as advanced as for food security beyond a few case studies, although workshop participants believe the potential is great.
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... and development of capacity to interpret these data. Workshop participants agreed that maintenance of the continuity of current satellite coverage monitoring environmental conditions over extended time frames is most important to the realization of any potential in applying land remote sensing to human welfare.
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... The workshop underscored the large, unrealized potential of the use of land remotely sensed data to a range of human welfare issues that, if developed, could parallel the significant advances in the use of remotely sensed data in the Earth sciences and global climate research in the past several decades.


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