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Early crop yield assessment

The Monitoring Agriculture with Remote Sensing (MARS) project was established by a Council Decision of 26 September 1988. The Institute for Remote Sensing Applications of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), which is responsible for the implementation of the project, has recently ...

The Monitoring Agriculture with Remote Sensing (MARS) project was established by a Council Decision of 26 September 1988. The Institute for Remote Sensing Applications of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), which is responsible for the implementation of the project, has recently published a book detailing the results of the first phase of the project. The aims of the MARS project, which was to last ten years, relate to support of the Common Agricultural Policy in the following areas: - Crop inventories; - Vegetation and crop state monitoring; - Crop yield forecasting; - Rapid and timely estimation of the EU's total production of the most important crops. The first phase of the project was implemented using the results of existing national and international research, leaving more fundamental research to the second phase (1994-1998). The book describes the techniques used and shows some of the outputs from the first phase.

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