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MOnitoring Crops in Continental Climates through Assimilation of Satellite INformation
Start date:2010-12-01
End date:2013-05-31
Project Acronym:MOCCCASIN
Project status:Execution
Coordinator
| Organization name:STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Allard |
Costerweg 50 9101 WAGENINGEN NEDERLAND Region:NOORD-NEDERLAND FRIESLAND Noord-Friesland |
| Tel:+31-317-481914 | |
| Fax:+31-317-419000 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
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Description
Objective:
Information on the outlook of yield and production of crops over large regions is essential for government services, food relief agencies, and international organizations monitoring the world food production and trade. In 2007, unbalances in the global production of agricultural commodities caused the marked prices of agricultural commodities to peak. Given this background the need for a global monitoring system for agricultural production is undisputed and included in the priority themes for GEO. In Europe, agricultural monitoring has been implemented through the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System (MCYFS) operated by JRC and also embedded in the European Union s GMES initiative. Recently, the MCYFS was extended and now includes the monitoring of crops in all of Russia, Central-Asia and China. These regions are characterized by harsh winter conditions and warm and dry summer conditions. Particularly winter-crops are affected by low temperatures during the winter which determine whether rapid re-growth is possible in spring. However, the effects of winter-kill are poorly described in the crop models used by MCYFS.
Earth observation data provide an opportunity to derive such information and can form a basis for real-time updating of wheat growth parameters in the MCYFS. Within the proposed project we plan to combine earth observation capabilities as well as improvements in crop modelling approaches. Data from the Russian RESURS-DK and KMSS sensors complemented with observations from the MERIS and MODIS sensors should allow to obtain: 1) masks of winter-wheat planting; 2) time-series of crop-specific variables and 3) maps of (relative) winter kill damage. Moreover, recent advances in crop modelling allow to take EO data into account through data assimilation techniques. Validation of these principles must be carried out both at local scale with observed field data, as well as on regional scale by evaluating the adapted and default models with regional statistics.
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Project Details
Start date:2010-12-01
End date:2013-05-31
Duration:30 months
Project Reference:262755
Project cost:685410 EURO
Project Funding:495659 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP7-SPACE
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:EU-Russia Cooperation in GMES (SICA)
Contract type:Small/medium-scale focused research project for specific cooperation actions dedicated to international cooperation partner countries(SICA)
URL:http://www.mocccasin.eu
Subject index:Space & satellite research, Coordination, Cooperation
Results for this Project
| Periodic Report Summary - MOCCCASIN (Monitoring crops in continental climates through assimilation of satellite information) | 12/12/2012 |
Other participants
| Organization name:UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Pierre |
Place De L'Universite 1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE BELGIQUE-BELGIË Region:RÉGION WALLONNE BRABANT WALLON |
| Tel:+32-10472374 | |
| Fax:+32-10478898 | |
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| Organization name:SPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Igor |
PROFSOYUZNAYA MOSKVA Russian Federation Region: |
| Tel:+7-4953335313 | |
| Fax:+7-4953331248 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.iki.rssi.ru | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:THE STATE ENTERPRISE NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC & RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGY*SE NSRIAM GU VNIISHM NIAM | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Oleg |
LENIN street OBNINSK Russian Federation Region: |
| Tel:+7-4843944599 | |
| Fax:+7-4843944388 | |
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| URL:http://cxm.obninsk.org/ | Organization Type: |
Record control number:96902
