Geo-spatial information and remote sensing for crop production and environmental care

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Geo-spatial information and remote sensing for
crop production and environmental care
Dr. Hanns-Christoph Eiden

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German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food
www.ble.de
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Introduction Geo-information in Agriculture

• Most of the agricultural activities are area
  related and have a spatial reference
• Use of geo-information in the European
  agriculture is quite common
• Requirement of RD for a wider use of geospatial
  data still exists

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Content
Construction and equipment Companies
Farmers and Associations, Agricultural Industry
International Organizations
EU and National Authorities
Fertilizer and Plant protection Industry
Farmers Associations Agricultural enterprises
Provision of equipment, fertilizer and plant
protection Products, seeds, irrigation systems
Food production

• CAP
• INSPIRE
• COPERNICUS

• GEO-GLAM

• Precision and Smart Farming
• Subsidies
• Environmental commitments

Consumers
Precision farming
Trading Companies Retailer
Food Sec. price stability
Nature Climate Protection
CAP
International Organizations
Administration
EU
Nat. GOV.
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Precision Farming

• Precise management of heterogeneous agricultural
  areas
• Measurement and evaluation of intra-field
  variations of crop and soil parameter
• Adjustment of agricultural measures according to
  the different needs of field sectors precise
  inputs at the right time and place
• Several benefits
• Protection of environment based on precise
  targeting of agrochemicals
• Improvement of efficiency of farming, increase of
  yield, saving of time, labor and costs

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Precision Farming

• German studies
• Precision farming leads to significant saving of
  fertilizers and pesticides
• Higher acceptance by farmers in eastern parts of
  Germany, probably due to bigger farming companies
• Due to additional equipment costs precision
  farming is only feasible for farms with 300 -400
  ha of acreage
• For management of complex data and techniques
  training and competence of farmers is required
• Further technical development Smart Farming

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Control of the EU agricultural aid payments

• Long history of using geo-information and remote
  sensing for the control of agricultural aid
  payments
• Determination of area size (perimeter
  measurement)
• GNSS devices (validated or certified accuracy
  1.5 m)
• Since 1993 remote sensing, i.e. 20 years of
  controls with remote sensing in Germany
• satellite imagery (about 0.5 5 m resolution)
• aerial imagery (about 0.2 m resolution)
• Since 2005 mandatory introduction of GIS as
  managing tool for administration

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Control of the EU agricultural aid payments

• Capabilities of remote sensing
• Determination of size, land cover, location of
  areas and relevant changes

• Advantages of remote sensing
• quick
• staff saving
• cost-efficient
• reliable and accurate

• Limits of remote sensing
• weather
• sun zenith angle
• crown cover
• undergrowth

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Control of the EU agricultural aid payments

• Further needs - new requirements - new challenges
• Greening
• Cross Compliance
• Agri-environment-climate
• measures

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INSPIRE

• aimed at the establishment of an
  INfrastructure for SPatial
  InfoRmation in Europe
• leads to interoperability of spatial data sets
  and services
  throughout the EU
• supports the formulation and implementation
  of the EU
  environmental policy
• data accessible in principle to any citizen
• Directive 2007/2/EC (implemented by EU member
  states)
• Implementing EU regulations

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INSPIRE

• Examples for INSPIRE spatial data themes (34
  themes in total)
• Land cover
• Land use
• Habitats and biotopes
• Species distribution
• Step-by-step implementation is scheduled and will
  be completed in 2020

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INSPIRE
INSPIRE Geo-Portal
metadata discovery services view
services download services transformation services
Spatial data infrastructures of all European
Member States
German Geo-Portal GDI-DE
Geo-Portals of the German Federal States
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Copernicus

• aimed at the establishment of a European
  capacity for earth
  observation
• supports the development of environmental
  policies
• collection of data from multiple sources
• Earth observation satellites
  (5 specially
  developed Sentinel missions and about 30
  contributing missions)
• In situ sensors, e.g. ground stations
• data accessible in principle to any citizen

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Copernicus

• Monitoring services
• Land, climate change, weather, atmosphere,
  marine, emergency/security
• Opportunity to develop value added services based
  on these so called core services
• German projects DeCOVER, DeSECURE and DeMARINE
  concerning value added land, security and marine
  services.

• Monitoring services
• Land, climate change, weather, atmosphere,
  marine, emergency/security
• Opportunity to develop value added services based
  on these so called core services
• German projects DeCOVER, DeSECURE and DeMARINE
  concerning value added land, security and marine
  services.

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GEO-GLAM

• International initiative for global agricultural
  monitoring with Earth observation and GIS
  technologies, agricultural and meteorological
  expertise and information
• Support of G 20s Agricultural Market
  Information System (AMIS)
• Objective enhance international capacity to
  produce and disseminate
• relevant, accurate and timely forecast of
  agricultural production

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Conclusion

• Eradication of malnutrition and starvation are
  huge challenges, food production has to be
  increased due to rapid growth of population
• Sustainable agriculture such as precision farming
  is required to preserve the environment
• Use of geo-information systems and Earth
  observation techniques help to
• monitor real-time changes of agricultural
  production,
• predict crop requirements,
• estimate yield and support early-warning-systems
  for harvest losses
• Great effort is undertaken within the EU and
  worldwide to enhance agricultural monitoring with
  Earth observation
• Development of common international standards for
  data exchange is needed

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Geospatial information and remote sensing for
crop production and environmental care

• Thank you for your attention!

Dr. Hanns-Christoph Eiden