Results
1. Development of a PoC on yield assessment of agricultural crops using satellite data
In November 2020, the PoC Yield Determination was delivered. The report of this PoC development can be found at the bottom of this page.
The assignment has shown that yield determination based on earth observation data can achieve good, accurate results. However, to further improve the models, more and better data on harvests is needed. An important bottleneck during development was the availability of harvest data at parcel level. The data available in the database of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries are at farm level and had to be 'plotted' to the parcels belonging to the farms. In order to come to a production-worthy solution, the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries would therefore have to invest in additional data collection in the future, with which the models could be re-trained.
During the project, a number of research topics emerged for possible follow-up projects, such as:
- Harvest forecasting: is it possible to predict the harvest when only a part of the phenology curve is available, i.e. when the growing season is still in progress?
- Effects of pre or post crop on the observed phenology of the main crop.
2. Development of a smartphone app for geotagged photos and plot features via augmented reality.
Execution is still in process (Spring 2022).
Media
- Nieuwsbericht departement Landbouw en Visserij
- Artikel in Vilt, 14 januari 2023
- Artikel in Landbouwleven, 18 januari 2023
- Artikel in Boerenbond, 13 januari 2023