ISAC
Description
|
ISAC |
| Information Service for Agricultural Change |
| Contact |
Herman Eerens |
Start (End) Date |
01/12/2010 (30/11/2013) |
| Consortium |
4 partners |
Project Coordination |
VITO |
| Website |
www.gmes-isac.info (new window) |
Related Projects |
GMFS, Adascis,
Marsop, G2-Biopar |
| Keywords |
DMC, Deimos, biophysical parameters, drought stress,
agricultural change, insurance sector, food security sector |
Project Objectives
Satellite images with a high temporal frequency (daily) but low spatial resolution (>250m) are frequently used for agricultural monitoring. However, since the early 2000, new high frequency, high resolution (<30m) wide swath sensors have become available. ISAC intends to explore improvements of current Agricultural Services based upon such high frequency, high resolution data acquired by DMC and Deimos-1 sensors. It intends to expand the capabilities of GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS) and Emergency Response Core Service (ERCS) for what concerns the agro-environment. ISAC proposes to develop and test feasibility of 3 services:
- Core Mapping Service (CMS) on High Resolution Biophysical Parameters (ABP-CMS)
- Core Information Service (CIS) on Drought Stress (DS-CIS)
- Core Information Service (CIS) on Agricultural Change (AC-CIS)
Purpose of the ABP-CMS, in analogy to the BIOPAR-CMS of the LMCS, is to produce vegetation indices and biophysical parameters (NDVI, fAPAR,…) with much greater spatial detail based on sensors like DMC and Deimos-1.
Purpose of the DS-CIS is to build synergy between vegetation indicators of high and low spatial detail in order to enhance the current capabilities of satellite-based drought information systems.
Purpose of the AC-CIS is to analyse agricultural change taking global seasonal climate forecasts as well as satellite data into account.
Methodology
- Assessment of service prospects and user requirements from the commercial (insurance) sector and the food security and emergency sector;
- Service R&D: development of a high resolution (HR) processing chain for DMC/Deimos-1 images, development of services for crop damage and risk assessment, pasture monitoring and agricultural change detection;
- Service demonstration in Belgium, Spain and Ethiopia;
- Service benchmarking;
- Preparation of a future operational service.
(Expected) Results
3 pre-operational (generic) services providing information on agricultural change. Specific results: a HR processing chain and HR biophysical parameters, drought related crop damage and risk indicators, indicators for pasture monitoring and study results on the impact of climate change on agriculture for the 3 demonstration countries.
Partners
Deimos Imaging (Spain)
IIASA (Austria)
GeoSAS (Ethiopia)
Infoterra UK (United Kingdom)
Illustration
'Wide swath' DMC image covering large parts of Belgium, the Netherlands and Northern France at a spatial resolution of 32m. This type of images offers new opportunities for agricultural monitoring at field level.
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