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SAFARI Symposium

SAFARI held its International Symposium on Remote Sensing and Fisheries from February 15-17, 2010 in Kochi, India More…

IOCCG Monograph

IOCCG Report 8, entitled "Remote Sensing in Fisheries and Aquaculture", has been published and is now available for distribution. A digital copy can be found here…

Science Articles

A series of Spring 2009 articles in Science takes a look at shrimp populations, algal blooms and climate change. More…

PICES Symposium

There will be an international symposium on Climate Change Effects on Fish and Fisheries: Forecasting Impacts, Assessing Ecosystem Responses, and Evaluating Management Strategies, to be held in April 2010 in Sendai, Japan More…


The SAFARI Initiative

Earth observation has a great deal of potential to benefit society through activities covered generally under the heading Fisheries and Aquaculture (see article from Platt et al. in "The Full Picture", GEO publication, 2007). The primary objective of the SAFARI Project is to integrate the activities of selected experts in fisheries and Earth Observation (EO) to accelerate the pace of assimilation of EO into fisheries research and ecosystem-based fisheries management on a world scale. SAFARI will also help to build capacity at the science level and the operational level, and facilitate the application of rapidly evolving satellite technology to fisheries management questions.





Earth Observation Initiatives

Existing Projects


Among the existing elements that will be highlighted under SAFARI are:


New Projects


The following are some examples of the kinds of projects that will be developed under SAFARI: