Description:
The session will cover the dedicated activities within the GEOGLAM initiative preparing for the necessary capabilities required for monitoring agricultural productivity at national to global scale in response to the G20 Agricultural minsters request for increased market transparency. It aims at reviewing the state-of-the art in large scale near real time monitoring, identifying the current successes and the knowledge gaps, and recommending a research agenda for the EO community.
Current operational crop monitoring systems are based on medium to coarse satellite remote sensing for the sake of consistency with the existing long-term archives. This session intends to cover these activities and also to put emphasis on the innovative experiments based on the 10 to 30 meters Copernicus Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat sensors which pave the way for crop monitoring at field level on national scale. Within this context, the generation of basic products such as crop masks, crop type maps or vegetation status (e.g. from the open source Sen2Agri system) should be seen as a unique opportunity to develop more advanced agriculture research and applications, like emergence date detection, crop rotation characterization, early crop area indicator, and last but not least, yield estimation.