EO for agriculture monitoring in Ukraine within international

EO for agriculture monitoring in Ukraine within international initiatives GLAM and JECAM Nataliia Kussul Space Research Institute NASU-NSAU

Who we are: Current Expertise & International Activities • Space Research Institute National Academy of Science & National Space Agency of Ukraine – Department of Space Information Technologies • Active participation in the Working Group on Information System and Services (WGISS) of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). • Participation in international collaborative activities within GEO Working Plan • UN-SPIDER RSO GEPW-7

Space Research Institute (Ukraine) in GEOSS • GEO 2012 -2015 Work Plan – IN-05 GEOSS Design and Interoperability • Architecture Implementation Pilot 2 (AIP -2) – “Sensor Web for Flood Applications” – DI-01 Informing Risk Management and Disaster Reduction • “Namibia Sensor. Web Pilot Project” – AG-01 Global Agricultural Monitoring and Early Warning • GEO-GLAM • JECAM GEPW-7 • GEO-UA Conference on “Earth Observations for Sustainable Development and Security” (2008, 2010, 2012) Prof. José Achache, GEO Secretariat Director, at GEO-UA Conference, 2008 Meeting at NASA on Namibian Sensor. Web Project, 2011 Meeting at University of Maryland on GEO-GLAM and JECAM, 2011

JECAM-Ukraine • Test sites were officially established in 2011 • Test sites – Kyiv oblast (SRI) • Crop area estimation • In-situ measurements Administrative map of Ukraine and location of Kyiv and Lviv region – crop types, along the roads and segment surveys – Pshenychne (National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine) • Biopar parameters retrieval and crop growth model calibration • In-situ measurements Map of intensive observation sub-site – crop types, crop height, LAI, f. Cover, soil parameters – Lviv oblast (The State Science. Technological Centre of Soil Fertility Protective) GEPW-7 • Crop rotation identification Relationship between humus and satellite-derived biomass

JECAM-related tasks (cont’) • SOAR-JECAM – “SAR parameters optimization for crop classification” • Based on Radarsat-2 quad-polarized images • GEO-GLAM – Winter Wheat Yield Forecasting for the whole Ukraine – Based on satellite data, meteorological observations, crop growth model • ESA Sentinel 2 -Agriculture – Participation as a “Champion User” – SPOT-4 will observe JECAM Ukraine every 5 days to simulate Sintenel-2 GEPW-7

Methodology: the EC project “The Monitoring Agricultural Resource. S” (MARS) • Project ЕС JRC “Crop area estimation with satellite images in Ukraine”, 2009 -2011 GEPW-7 Data: • MODIS • AWi. FS • Landsat-5/TM • LISS-III • Rapid. Eye Area frame sampling (segments) and along the road surveys (curves) The benefit from satellite data usage: Decrease of work cost in 1. 5 times

SOAR-JECAM • SAR parameters optimization for crop classification • Data – Radarsat-2 (quad-pol) • 27 and 30 August 2012 – EO-1/ALI • 28 July and 05 August 2012 Radarsat-2, 2012 -07 -30 RADARSAT-2 Data and Products © Mac. Donald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (2012) - All Rights Reserved. • Major crop types GEPW-7 – – – Maize Soybeans Sunflower Sugar beet Winter and spring crops (wheat) EO-1, 2012 -08 -05

SOAR-JECAM (cont’) • Classification algorithms – DT – SVM – NN (MLP) • Overall accuracy – 80. 4% (MLP) Classification map of Radarsat-2 and EO-1/ALI images using ensemble of MLPs GEPW-7

Crop rotation identification • Lviv oblast • Satellite data – Landsat 7 (2012. 05. 10) – Landsat 5 (2011. 05. 25) • Crop rotation violation – Winter rapeseed Landsat 5 2011 -05 -25 Landsat 7 2012 -05 -10 GEPW-7

Winter wheat yield forecasting • Three approaches – empirical regression-based model using MODIS data, – empirical regression-based model using meteorological parameters, and – adapted for Ukraine Crop Growth Monitoring System (CGMS) based on WOFOST crop growth simulation model and meteorological parameters; GEPW-7

Winter wheat forecast for 2012 • Operational forecasting of winter wheat yield in Ukraine for 2012 based on Earth observation GEPW-7 Winter wheat forecasts for Ukraine for 2012 as of 2 June 2012

Collaboration with Univ. of Maryland on GEO-GLAM • Meeting in College Park, MD, USA, 07 November 2011 – Discussion of tasks and current results in JECAM, and participation in GEO-GLAM Meeting at University of Maryland on GEO-GLAM and JECAM, 2011 • Meeting on GEO-GLAM in Kyiv, 07 April 2013 GEPW-7 – Discussion of progress in JECAM and SOAR-JECAM – Participation of Ukraine in GEOGLAM Implementation Phases 1 and 2 Meeting in Kyiv on GEO-GLAM and JECAM, 2013

Geoportal: delivery of EO products (jecam. org. ua) soybean, 90 ha Not planted, 40 ha GEPW-7

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