Project Overview Isabelle Piccard VITO Presented by Lieven

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

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

Introduction § FP 7 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 -30 m) § Start date: 1 January 2011 Duration: 30 months Budget: 1 250 757 EUR (EC grant) § § Co-ordinator: Partners: 3

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, NEPAD’s Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development programme & Environmental programme, … 14/01/2011 4

ISAC team Partner Expertise Clear needs: frequent information covering large areas User contacts Deimos Imaging EO based agriculture (pastures, crops) & environment applications Spanish insurance sector (Agroseguro), ENESA IIASA Modelling land use & land use trends, link between climate change & index insurance IFPRI, IGAD World Bank Geo. SAS Food security & disaster risk management, involved in Ethiopia Drought Insurance Pilot Project IGAD member countries, WFP, World Bank Eth. insurance sector Infoterra UK Geo-information provider, a. o. for emergency sector, leading SAFER & Garnet-E projects Emergency response community in Africa VITO Image processing & EO based applications for monitoring agriculture & food security: leading GMFS, involved in geoland 2, 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 14/01/2011 5

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

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

Service R&D – CMS HR Bio. Par § 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

Service R&D – CIS Drought stress § Development of a prototype service for drought related crop damage & risk assessment based on HR Bio. Par § Methodology: Based on ADASCIS, project for Belgian Agricultural Calamity Fund → anomaly detection, crop damage & risk assessment per municipality, based on SPOT-VGT f. APAR exceptional? Return frequency Large number of exceptional values in crop’s critical period: “potentially damaged” 14/01/2011 9

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

Thank you! 14/01/2011 11