The ever-increasing spatial resolution offered by the newest generation of satellite sensors allow us to monitor at the scale of an individual parcels and to quantitatively estimate or predict agricultural production (area × yield) and water-use for applications in food security analysis. This course will provide/present participants with (i) the most relevant data sources and data analysis techniques related to parcel-based crop monitoring and crop yield estimation; (ii) knowledge on the primary plant functions photosynthesis and evapotranspiration in the context of the surface energy balance with the aim to build EO-based methods from the ground up; and (3) practical assignments that employ Sentinel-2 and Landsat-9 image data to estimate the fraction of photosynthetically available radiation and land surface temperature as proxies for agricultural production and water-use, respectively.
- Teacher: Jeroen Degerickx
- Teacher: Michael Marshall