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

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Content Introduction Context ISAC team Project objectives Users Services 14/01/2011 2

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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: 3

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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, NEPADs Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development programme & Environmental programme, 14/01/2011 4

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5 ISAC team PartnerExpertiseUser contacts Deimos ImagingEO based agriculture (pastures, crops) & environment applications Spanish insurance sector (Agroseguro), ENESA IIASAModelling land use & land use trends, link between climate change & index insurance IFPRI, IGAD World Bank GeoSASFood security & disaster risk management, involved in Ethiopia Drought Insurance Pilot Project IGAD member countries, WFP, World Bank Eth. insurance sector Infoterra UKGeo-information provider, a.o. for emergency sector, leading SAFER & Garnet-E projects Emergency response community in Africa VITOImage 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

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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 14/01/2011 6 Existing services based on low/medium resolution satellite data Increased availability of high resolution, wide swath satellite data Long term sustainability: feed into existing GMES services, stimulate downstream services with paying clients

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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. 14/01/2011 7

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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 14/01/2011 8

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9 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 crops critical period: potentially damaged

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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

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Thank you! 14/01/2011 11