For logistical and security reasons, various institutions and organizations monitor vegetation condition in food insecure regions of the world using remote sensing techniques from space. In this study, we...
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The turnover of the EU agri-food sector overtops 2,000 billion Euros a year and employs roughly 22 millions workers. The focus of this paper is on the sectors directly linked to agricultural...
The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission operationally monitors semi-arid countries using Earth Observation (EO) systems. This contribution describes the application of a new method for assessing...
The length of the crop season is a major determinant of yields in Sahel. Higher variability being observed on when the season starts rather than when it finishes, accurate estimates...
Agri-environmental schemes (AES) have had a limited effect on European agri- culture due to farmers¿ reluctance to participate. Information on how farmers react when AES...
Mapping cropland areas in a dynamic way is of great interest to successfully monitor agricultural areas and food security. Existing cropland masks are either too coarse...
This technical report provides an overview on the AgroSAM project carried out at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS). The objective was to create a set of Social Accounting Matrices...
Abstract— A procedure for the calculation of a “built-up presence index” is presented. The index is based on fuzzy rulebased composition of anisotropic textural measures derived from the satellite data by the gray-level co-occurrence...
topsoil organic carbon used for chemical fate calculations (see documentation)