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The Emergency Sequence: Phase Three - Early Warning Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - 1998 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2.3.1 Remote Sensing
2.3.2 Agrometeorology
2.3.3 Analysis Tools for Global Monitoring
2.3.4 Baseline or Reference Data for Early Warning
| AFSP | Procurement Service |
| AGAH | Animal Health Service |
| AGL | Land and Water Development Division |
| AGPP | Plant Protection Service |
| AGSE | Agricultural Engineering Service |
| AGSM | Marketing and Rural Finance Services |
| ARTEMIS | Africa Real Time Environmental Monitoring Information System |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometry |
| CCBS | Country Cereal Balance Sheet |
| CCD | Cold Cloud Duration |
| CFSAM | Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission |
| CILSS | Early Warning and Food Information System |
| CPSZ | Crop Production Systems Zones |
| CWSI | Crop Water Satisfaction Index |
| ECG | Emergency Coordination Group |
| EMPRES | Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases |
| ENSO | El Nino Southern Oscillation |
| ESAF | Food Security and Agricultural Projects Analysis |
| ESCG | Global Information and Early Warning Service |
| ESN | Food and Nutrition Division |
| EWFIS | Early Warning and Food Information System |
| FIVIMS | Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Maping System |
| FSNIS | Food Security and Nutrition Information System |
| GIEWS | Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| IASC | Inter-Agency Standing Committee |
| IDA | Image Display and Analysis Software |
| IGAD | Inter-Governmental Authority on Development |
| ISO | Index of Southern Oscillation |
| LIFDC | Low-Income Food-Deficit Country |
| MCBS | Monthly Cereal Balance Sheet |
| NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
| NGO | Non-Governmental Organization |
| NOAA | United States National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration |
| OCHA | Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian |
| OCD | Office for Normative, Operational and Decentralized Activities |
| REWS | Regional Early Warning System |
| SADC | Southern Africa Development Community |
| SCF/UK | Save the Children Fund (UK) |
| SDRN | Environmental and Natural Resources Service |
| TCAR | Policy Coordinating Service |
| TCOR | Special Relief Operations Service |
| UNDP/UNDRO | United Nations Development Programme/Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator |
| UNHCR | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| USAID | United States Agency for International Development |
| WFP | World Food Programme |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organization |