Real-time monitoring of crops in the region using satellite data
The organization of providing information about status of agricultural crops, derived from data of satellite monitoring.
User have access to the WEB-interface that allows you to view information about his fields, administrative district or region as a whole.
The user can specify a field by using follows ways:
- View a map of NDVI (current and historical data) on the whole territory of Russia
- View Landsat scenes (current and historical) on the whole territory of Russia
- Ability to obtain current and historical information for several fixed objects located on the whole territory of Russia
- The possibility of operational and historical information for the two districts, selected for demo mode (open access to all information for this areas)
For the selected fields, the user can obtain the following information:
- The time course of the vegetation index NDVI (an indicator of the crop) within the selected objects during the growing season for 2000 - 2011 and for the current year. (The data are updated at least once a week).
- For information about the type of cultivated crops (winter / spring in the current season and previous seasons).
- The time course of mean temperature (daily data) and accumulated temperature over any period from 2000 to the current time.
- The time course of precipitation (daily data) and the amount of precipitation for any period from 2000 to the current time.
- The time variation of solar radiation (daily data) and accumulated radiation for any period from 2000 to the current time.
- Information to assess the presence of snow cover for any period from 2000 to the current time (the image of the area where the object located).
The user can also get these kinds of information are averaged for the region, or administrative districts, or on the farm. You can also obtain information averaged over arable land, land occupied by winter and spring crops, as well as land covered by forest.
For the region, administrative districs or farms also provide the average ("normal") time variation of vegetation indices on arable lands, the lands occupied spring and winter crops.
For the administrative districs, the farms and the regions is possible to obtain estimates of predictive yield of the current season based on a comparison with the relevant parameters of the previous years (NDVI, temperature, precipitation, solar radiation) and historical data on the yield obtained from Rosstat, or from other sources on the user's choice.
To work with such information was developed specialized web-interfaces. Information can also be stored in tabular form for export to the user Information Systems by the agreed format.
Specialized Web-interfaces allow:
- Compare these different current settings with those of previous seasons (at the user's choice), or with historical averages.
- Conduct a spatial comparison of crop conditions (for example, in neighboring fields, or fields of a farm, or on any two user-selected fields).
- Analyze data in graphical form or as cartograms.
- To receive "warning signs" indicating the areas in which the relevance of the above parameters significantly deviate from the average (including the shift of the growing season)
As additional options in the service, by user request, can be included the following:
- Getting the curves of "normal" growing of major crops in the region, which will recognize not only the winter and spring crops, but all the main crops separately.
- Calculation of productivity forecasts at the individual fields (in the presence of the users of statistical information about their productivity over the past 10 years).
- Assessment of the correctness of the declaration of planted crops and crop rotation.
- Estimation of effective productivity of individual fields.
- Assessment of non uniformity of soils of fields and the main soil factors limiting crop yield in a particular field.
- Automatically import different data provided by service in the user Information Systems in a consistent format.
This service is provided on the territory of the Russian regions. Upon request, the service can be extended to the territory of Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus.
Service developed and provided by the Space Research Institute (IKI) of Russian Academy of Sciences.