EO-based Services and Products for Agriculture
Organized with support from the EARSeL’s Agriculture SIG:
Enrico Corrado Borgogno Mondino, PhD, Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences – University of Torino, homepage: https://www.geografia.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?enrico.borgognomondino#tab-profilo
Francesco Pirotti, PhD, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, homepage: https://www.tesaf.unipd.it/en/francesco-pirotti
A) EO-based Services and Products for Agriculture
Topics:
- EO data for supporting risk modelling and management in agriculture
- Direct and indirect economic benefits of EO products and services in agriculture
- EO data integration with other services (e.g. agro-meteo networks, phenological networks etc…)
- Crop mapping for yield monitoring and optimization
- EO data for environmental impact mitigation in farming activities – e.g. monitoring of the emissions of particulate matter and gases, reduction of impact from treatments, optimization of water usage etc….
- Crop damage assessment for multiple purposes – insurance, the estimate of economic losses, etc…
- EO for supporting Common Agricultural Policies (CAP)
B) Standardization and Certification of Data Processing for EO-based agricultural applications
Topics:
- Accuracy (spatial and semantic) requirements for EO end-products to be used in Agriculture
- Potential standardized procedures for quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) about EO-derived products
- Present and ongoing strategies for QA/QC from institutional subjects, Agencies and Companies; how do they face this topic?
- Policies and regulations from national and international Agencies that emanate mandatory guidelines and laws
- Automated methods for fast assessment of EO data quality for agricultural applications
- Innovative methods for quality improvement of EO-derived products for agriculture