Hard Facts

In response to growing pressure on the world’s crop supply, an increasing demand exists for agricultural monitoring providing intelligence for: i) the agricultural industry for pre-financing, managing water demand and crop development as well as insurances; ii) the responsible public organisations at regional, national and trans-national for formulating directives and laws, controlling and reporting obligations; iii) the international development agencies and financing institutions for assessing development requirements, ensuring efficient developments and monitoring food security. EO data contribute to crop monitoring as a proven source for transparent, timely and consistent information on agricultural productivity at field, regional or national scale. The project’s long term aim was to develop the basis for an operational crop monitoring service applying time-series Copernicus Sentinel-2 data (crop type / area identification, crop condition monitoring).