12.3 Spatial and Temporal Monitoring Systems
for Agriculture
12.3.1 Web Service–Based Near-Real-Time Global
Agricultural Drought Monitoring System
The Global Agricultural Drought Monitoring and Forecasting System (GADMFS),
funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) BAA Program
(NA09NES4280007, NNX09AO14G, PI: Prof. Liping Di), is a Web servicebased, near-real-time global agriculture drought monitoring system (Yu et al.
2010; Deng et al. 2011, 2012; Yagci et al. 2012). It aims to provide a Web-based
service system for policy-makers and research scientists to monitor and forecast the
global agricultural drought status (Fig. 12.1).
For human society, agricultural drought information is vital to global agriculture
sustainable development, national economic status, and food security. To meet the
increasing and urgent demands for agricultural drought knowledge, GADMFS provides on-demand, near-real-time monitoring, on-the-fly analysis, and agricultural
drought prediction. GADMFS is also a contributed component of the Global Earth
Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) (GEOSS 2017). With the GADMFS
system, the global users can access, monitor, and analyze the temporal agricultural
drought conditions for any part of the world just through the network and without
requiring any other resources.
Fig. 12.1 Globe agricultural drought monitoring and forecasting system (GADMFS)
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