Agromonitoring system

Main purpose was creation of distributed system to provide information products for estimation of crop areas and monitoring of crops on a regular basis using both Earth remote probing and ground visits, which should provide verification for remote methods.

Main advantages:

• Ability to use the system by different users, both ministerial and private level
• Ability to use the system without Internet connection
• Satellite data of medium and high resolution usage
• Dynamical content generation
• Easy-to-use visualisation tools
• Ground-based observations presentation
• International standards of information exchange and sharing compliance

Geoportal of agromonitoring

• Web-interface
• Operational satellite information throughout Ukraine
• Automatic downloads of new products and placing them in a database
• Authorised access for individual farms
• Generalization information on administrative units and farms
• Lack of requirements for specialized software

Farmers can obtain

• Accurate digital maps of individual fields
• Maps fertilizer for precise and controlled farming
• Satellite operational objective information about the state of crops in each field
• Yield forecasting

Operational crops monitoring

• Control acreage
• Operational monitoring of crops using satellite data
• Maps fertilizer for precision farming

Analysis and yield forecasting

• Yield forecasting
• Analysis of changes in acreage
• Analysis of impact of climatic factors on yield