Project OverviewIsabelle Piccard (VITO)Presented by, Lieven Bydekerke

GEO European Projects workshopLondon, 8-9 February 2010

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Introduction Context ISAC team Project objectives UsersServices

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Introduction

FP7 collaborative project, SPACE-2010-1 call: “Stimulating the development of GMES services in specific areas”

Basic idea: agricultural monitoring in a changing environment using high resolution satellite images (20-30m)

Start date: 1 January 2011 Duration: 30 months Budget: 1 250 757 EUR (EC grant)

Co-ordinator: Partners:

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Context

Increase of world population: land resources under stress… Climate change: more natural disasters… Agriculture more exposed to evolution of world market prices…

→ Europe: CAP states “farmers should take measures to manage risk” (insurance, mutual funds,…)

→ Africa: agricultural systems are less well understood, resilience after disasters is low,… = food aid & development programs are needed to remedy and formulate actions for sustainable management and development

need for transparent & reliable information on agriculture and the agri-environment

= supported by Lisbon protocol, CAP, NEPAD’s Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development programme & Environmental programme,…

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ISAC team

Partner Expertise User contacts

Deimos Imaging EO based agriculture (pastures, crops) & environment applications

Spanish insurance sector (Agroseguro), ENESA

IIASA Modelling land use & land use trends, link between climate change & index insurance

IFPRI, IGADWorld Bank

GeoSAS Food security & disaster risk management, involved in Ethiopia Drought Insurance Pilot Project

IGAD member countries, WFP, World BankEth. insurance sector

Infoterra UK Geo-information provider, a.o. for emergency sector, leading SAFER & Garnet-E projects

Emergency response community in Africa

VITO Image processing & EO based applications for monitoring agriculture & food security: leading GMFS, involved in geoland2, MARSOP, ADASCIS projects

Belgian and Eur. insurance sector, Flemish Agriculture Administration, Belgian Agricultural Calamity Fund, JRC-MARS,Food security community in Africa + international (UN, EC) Global Land user community

Clear needs: frequent information covering large areas

Project objectives

Development of 3 prototype services: Core Mapping Service on High Resolution Biophysical

Parameters (ABP-CMS) Core Information Service on Drought stress (DS-CIS) Core Information Service on Agricultural change (AC-CIS)

Service demonstration in Belgium, Spain and Ethiopia

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Existing services based on low/medium resolution satellite dataIncreased availability of high resolution, wide swath satellite data

Long term sustainability: feed into existing GMES services, stimulate downstream services with paying clients

Users & demonstrations

Insurance sector (Agroseguro Spain, Belgian insurance sector - Assuralia, CEA, NYALA Ethiopia,…)

Authorities (Flemish Agriculture administration, ENESA Spain, Ministry of Agriculture Ethiopia,…)

Food security & Emergency response sector Current initiatives in IGAD region related to food security

& emergency response (ICPAC, REFORM, crop production monitoring database of CPSZ/FAO/EC, …)

Information provider activities: GMES Africa, JRC Africa, GEO/GEOSS, FAO, USAID and UN activities.

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Service R&D – CMS HR BioPar

Role of VITO (WP leader): development of a processing chain to derive biophysical parameters from high resolution DMC/Deimos-1 satellite images

Methodology:Based on CTIV, MARS-OP and Geoland-2 experience in processing low & medium resolution satellite data (SPOT-VGT, NOAA & METOP AVHRR, MODIS, MERIS) and experience in (very) high resolution airborne & UAV data processing

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Service R&D – CIS Drought stress

Development of a prototype service for drought related crop damage & risk assessment based on HR BioPar

Methodology:Based on ADASCIS, project for Belgian Agricultural Calamity Fund → anomaly detection, crop damage & risk assessment per municipality, based on SPOT-VGT fAPAR

fAPAR exceptional? Return frequency

Large number of exceptional values in crop’s critical period: “potentially damaged”

Service R&D – CMS Agricultural change

Courtesy IIASA, Steffen Fritz, Marijn De Valck

Short-term AC to improve crop yield forecast & early warning

Long-term AC detection integrating EPIC outputs with GLOBIOM for long term CC impact

Thank you!

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