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Enhancing Agricultural Monitoring: The ISAC Project Overview

The ISAC project, initiated on January 1, 2011, aims to improve agricultural monitoring in response to increasing global pressures such as climate change and population growth. Funded by the EC under FP7, this 30-month collaborative project focuses on developing high-resolution satellite services to provide vital information on biophysical parameters, drought stress, and agricultural changes. With a budget of €1,250,757, the project engages various stakeholders, including the insurance sector and agricultural authorities in Europe and Africa, to ensure food security and sustainable agricultural practices.

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Enhancing Agricultural Monitoring: The ISAC Project Overview

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  1. Project Overview Isabelle Piccard (VITO) Presented by, Lieven Bydekerke GEO European Projects workshop London, 8-9 February 2010

  2. Content • Introduction • Context • ISAC team • Project objectives • Users • Services

  3. Introduction • FP7 collaborative project, SPACE-2010-1 call: “Stimulating the development of GMES services in specific areas” • Basicidea: agriculturalmonitoring in a changing environment using high resolutionsatellite images (20-30m) • Start date: 1 January 2011 • Duration: 30 months • Budget: 1 250 757 EUR (EC grant) • Co-ordinator: • Partners:

  4. Context • Increase of worldpopulation: land resources under stress… • Climatechange: more natural disasters… • Agriculture more exposed to evolution of worldmarketprices… → Europe: CAP states “farmers shouldtakemeasures to manage risk” (insurance, mutualfunds,…) → Africa: agriculturalsystems are lesswellunderstood, resilienceafter disasters is low,… = foodaid & development programs are needed to remedy and formulateactionsforsustainable management and development needfortransparent & reliableinformationonagriculture and the agri-environment = supportedbyLisbon protocol, CAP, NEPAD’sComprehensiveAfrica Agricultural Developmentprogramme & Environmentalprogramme,…

  5. ISAC team Clearneeds: frequent information covering large areas

  6. Project objectives Existing services basedon low/medium resolutionsatellite data Increasedavailability of high resolution, wideswathsatellite data • Development of 3 prototype services: • Core Mapping Service on High ResolutionBiophysical Parameters (ABP-CMS) • Core Information Service onDrought stress (DS-CIS) • Core Information Service on Agricultural change (AC-CIS) • Service demonstration in Belgium, Spain and Ethiopia Long term sustainability: feedintoexisting GMES services, stimulate downstream services withpayingclients

  7. Users & demonstrations • Insurance sector (Agroseguro Spain, Belgianinsurance sector - Assuralia, CEA, NYALA Ethiopia,…) • Authorities(FlemishAgricultureadministration, ENESA Spain, Ministry of AgricultureEthiopia,…) • Foodsecurity & Emergency response sector • Currentinitiatives in IGAD regionrelated to foodsecurity & emergency response (ICPAC, REFORM, cropproductionmonitoring database of CPSZ/FAO/EC, …) • Information provider activities: GMES Africa, JRC Africa, GEO/GEOSS, FAO, USAID and UN activities.

  8. Service R&D – CMS HR BioPar • Role of VITO (WP leader): development of a processing chain to derivebiophysical parameters from high resolution DMC/Deimos-1 satellite images • Methodology: Basedon CTIV, MARS-OP and Geoland-2 experience in processing low & medium resolutionsatellite data (SPOT-VGT, NOAA & METOP AVHRR, MODIS, MERIS) and experience in (very) high resolutionairborne & UAV data processing

  9. Service R&D – CIS Drought stress • Development of a prototype service fordroughtrelatedcropdamage & risk assessmentbasedon HR BioPar • Methodology: Basedon ADASCIS, project forBelgian Agricultural CalamityFund → anomalydetection, cropdamage & risk assessment per municipality, basedon SPOT-VGT fAPAR fAPAR exceptional? Return frequency Large number of exceptional values in crop’s critical period: “potentially damaged”

  10. Service R&D – CMS Agricultural change • Short-term AC to improve crop yield forecast & early warning • Long-term AC detection integrating EPIC outputs with GLOBIOM for long term CC impact Courtesy IIASA, Steffen Fritz, Marijn De Valck

  11. Thankyou!

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