Geomatics in support of the Common Agricultural Policy- Proceedings of the 14th GeoCAP Annual Conference, 2008

Abstract

The 2008 Annual Conference, jointly organised by the GeoCAP (former MARS PAC) action of the Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food of the Republic of Slovenia, covered the Control with Remote sensing Activities as well as technical aspects of Land Parcel Identification Systems (LPIS) and ortho-imagery use in Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) management and control procedures. The conference was the 14th organised by GeoCAP to review this important and still growing area of technical activity, in support of the CAP implementation. The program was structured into two days of plenary sessions (Wednesday 3rd and Friday 5th December) and one day (Thursday 4th December) with parallel sessions, including a restricted session for national and regional administrations. More than 350 participants from 36 countries attended. The presentations delivered during the conference were made available on line within some days of the event, and this publication represents the best presentations judged worthy of inclusion in a conference proceedings aimed at recording the state of the art of technology and practice of that time.JRC.G.3-Monitoring agricultural resource