@InProceedings{WhitcraftPuriGalvBell:2019:BuReCo,
               author = "Whitcraft, Alyssa Kathleen and Puricelli, Estefania Ines and 
                         Galvez, Antonio Sanchez and di Bella, Carlos Marcelo",
          affiliation = "{GEOGLAM Secretariat} and {University of Maryland} and {University 
                         of Maryland} and {Instituto Nacional de Tecnolog{\'{\i}}as 
                         Agropecuarias}",
                title = "Agricultural monitoring in the Americas: building a regional 
                         community to reinforce national capacity use remote sensing 
                         technology for agricultural decision making",
            booktitle = "Anais...",
                 year = "2019",
               editor = "Gherardi, Douglas Francisco Marcolino and Sanches, Ieda DelArco 
                         and Arag{\~a}o, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz de",
                pages = "2204--2207",
         organization = "Simp{\'o}sio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto, 19. (SBSR)",
            publisher = "Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)",
              address = "S{\~a}o Jos{\'e} dos Campos",
             keywords = "Agriculture, Americas, Food Security, Earth observations, 
                         GEOGLAM.",
             abstract = "The Agricultural Monitoring in the Americas (AMA) Community of 
                         Practice is an open community composed of national and 
                         international agencies concerned with agricultural monitoring and 
                         food security in the Americas (from Canada to Chile). The AMA is 
                         the convening body of GEOGLAM Latinoam{\'e}rica (G-LA) and the 
                         AmeriGEOSS Food Security \& Sustainable Agriculture sister 
                         initiatives. Both initiatives focus on strengthening national 
                         systems monitoring capabilities through the use of Earth 
                         observations (EO), as well as on fostering with-in-region 
                         international collaboration around research and development and 
                         operational implementation of monitoring tools for the main crops 
                         types and rangeland/pasture areas in the Americas. Through 
                         facilitating contact and coordination between researchers and 
                         decision-makers at the ministerial level, the AMAs implementing 
                         body (AMA-Working Group) uses EO data to confront challenges 
                         around food production, food security, climate change, and 
                         sustainable development. This brief paper details the origin, 
                         objectives, formation, status, activities, and future work of the 
                         AMA and AMA-WG since their early 2018 establishment.",
  conference-location = "Santos",
      conference-year = "14-17 abril 2019",
                 isbn = "978-85-17-00097-3",
             language = "pt",
         organisation = "Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)",
                  ibi = "8JMKD3MGP6W34M/3UA3SPH",
                  url = "http://urlib.net/ibi/8JMKD3MGP6W34M/3UA3SPH",
           targetfile = "97857.pdf",
                 type = "Produ{\c{c}}{\~a}o e previs{\~a}o agr{\'{\i}}cola",
        urlaccessdate = "10 maio 2024"
}