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Professor Philip Lewis and Dr Qingling Wu present work at COP26

5 November 2021

Prof Philip Lewis and Dr Qingling Wu have discussed their agricultural monitoring work in the “Earth Information Day - Perspective from UK Presidency” event at COP26

Professor Philip Lewis and Dr Qingling Wu present work at COP26

This session, on Wednesday 3 November, was chaired by , the Chief Scientific Advisor of Defra.

Professor Lewisintroduced the methodological approach of Earth Observation-based crop monitoring techniques along with two UK examples.

Dr Wushowcased two international collaborations in China and Ghana.

Professor Lewis said: "Earth Observation has a really important part to play in food security, forming part of crop early warning systems and allowing yield predictions.

"It was great to bepart of the COP26 Earth Information Day andshowcase some of our work in this area with colleagues around the world.”