DROMAS
Project duration: 2013Â to 2015
Project manager: Lubos Kucera
The DROMAS project was implemented as a feasibility study supported by the ESA ARTES Integrated Applications Program. The study resulted in the design of services for periodic monitoring of agricultural vegetation aiming at provision of timely information about the status of agricultural crops to support decision making on local, regional and country level. The service uses the time series of satellite imagery and in-situ data collected with the help of satellite navigation.
Two types of services has been developed within the study - periodical full country monitoring of agricultural vegetation and support of farm management at agricultural parcel level.
First service is addressed to state and EU authorities that may improve the risk analysis to target field inspection for the crosscompliance control within the CAP. At the same time it will be possible to improve the monitoring and assessment of impacts of natural disasters on agricultural production (drought, flood, hail, storms, etc.). Landsat 8 and Sentinel imagery will be assesed and validated together with in-situ data within the entire vegetation season.
The farm management service will enable monitoring of agriculture crops on single agricultural parcel and comparison with historical data. The processing of time series of satellite imagery provides analysis of crop spatial variability to assess existing farming management practice.
Both services are currently prepared for pilot evaluation in the framework of following 3-year demonstration project under the IAP programme.
Gisat
was founded in 1990 as a first Czech company providing geoinformation services in the area of remote sensing. The company is oriented on complex and innovative services within the domain of remote sensing and GIS. The wide scope of services is based on partnerships with all major Earth observation satellite data providers. Gisat has extensive long-term experiences with leadership of international p