Partecipanti: Elisabetta Carfagna
Organizers: Paolo Pizziol – Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Elisabetta Carfagna – Department of Statistical Sciences - Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna 11:00 Welcome – David Wilkinson, Commissioner General for EU participation to EXPO and Director of the JRC's
Institute for Environment and Sustainability
11:15 Welcome – Gianluca Fiorentini, Vice Rector for Teaching and Education of Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
Chair: Neil Hubbard – Head of MARS Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Centre
11:30 Opening by Paolo De Castro – S&D Coordinator, Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Parliament
11:50 Giampiero Genovese – DG-AGRI/Joint Research Centre
Improving agricultural statistics for market management, food security and agro-environmental monitoring –
12:10 Stefan Niemeyer – Joint Research Centre The MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System
12:30 John Latham – FAO
Monitoring land cover with GIS and remote sensing
12:50 Discussion
13.10 – 14:30 Lunch
14.30 – 15:00 Tour of EU pavilion
Chair: Elisabetta Carfagna, – University of Bologna 15:00 Philippe Loudjani – Joint Research Centre
Use of New Technologies for agricultural monitoring
15:20 Giuseppe Arbia – Cattolica University
Statistical modelling of agricultural data in a world of big data
15:40 Michael Steiner – United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Appropriate Survey Methods for Different Country Profiles - Key Challenges, Gaps and Remaining Methodological Issues
16:00 Cristiano Ferraz – Federal University of Pernambuco and Fulvia Mecatti - University of Milano Bicocca Combining different sampling frames for agricultural statistics -
16:20 Discussion
16:40– 17:10 Coffee break
Chair: Giampiero Genovese – DG-AGRI/Joint Research Centre
17:10 Monica Pratesi – University of Pisa and Alessandra Petrucci - University of Firenze
Disaggregating agricultural statistics by small area models
17:30 Roberto Benedetti and Paolo Postiglione – University of Chieti-Pescara and Federica Piersimoni – Istat More efficient and accurate methods for using remote sensing
17:50 Javier Gallego – Joint Research Centre
Satellite images and crop area estimation: perspectives with new sensors
18:10 Zhengyuan Zhu – Iowa State University and Sarah Nusser – Iowa State University confirmed Advanced methods for agricultural and agro-environmental monitoring
18:30 – 19:00 – General discussion and concluding remarks.
Further details can be found at https://eventi.unibo.it/expo2015ruralplanning