1. Nataliia Kussul Space Research Institute NASU-NSAU
EO for agriculture monitoring in Ukraine within international initiatives GLAM and JECAM
Nataliia Kussul
Space Research Institute NASU-NSAU

2. Who we are: Current Expertise & International Activities
Space Research Institute National Academy of Science & National Space Agency of Ukraine
Department of Space Information Technologies
Active participation in the Working Group on Information System and Services (WGISS) of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS).
Participation in international collaborative activities within GEO Working Plan
UN-SPIDER RSO

3. Space Research Institute (Ukraine) in GEOSS
GEO Work Plan
IN-05 GEOSS Design and Interoperability
Architecture Implementation Pilot 2 (AIP-2)
“Sensor Web for Flood Applications”
DI-01 Informing Risk Management and Disaster Reduction
“Namibia SensorWeb Pilot Project”
AG-01 Global Agricultural Monitoring and Early Warning
GEO-GLAM
JECAM
GEO-UA Conference on “Earth Observations for Sustainable Development and Security” (2008, 2010, 2012)
Prof. José Achache, GEO Secretariat Director, at GEO-UA Conference, 2008
Meeting at NASA on Namibian SensorWeb Project, 2011
Meeting at University of Maryland on GEO-GLAM and JECAM, 2011

4. JECAM-Ukraine Test sites were officially established in 2011
Kyiv oblast (SRI)
Crop area estimation
In-situ measurements
crop types, along the roads and segment surveys
Pshenychne (National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine)
Biopar parameters retrieval and crop growth model calibration
crop types, crop height, LAI, fCover, soil parameters
Lviv oblast (The State Science-Technological Centre of Soil Fertility Protective)
Crop rotation identification
Administrative map of Ukraine and location of Kyiv and Lviv region
Map of intensive observation sub-site
Relationship between humus and satellite-derived biomass

5. JECAM-related tasks (cont’)
SOAR-JECAM
“SAR parameters optimization for crop classification”
Based on Radarsat-2 quad-polarized images
GEO-GLAM
Winter Wheat Yield Forecasting for the whole Ukraine
Based on satellite data, meteorological observations, crop growth model
ESA Sentinel2-Agriculture
Participation as a “Champion User”
SPOT-4 will observe JECAM Ukraine every 5 days to simulate Sintenel-2

6. Area frame sampling (segments) and along the road surveys (curves)
Methodology: the EC project “The Monitoring Agricultural ResourceS” (MARS)
Project ЕС JRC “Crop area estimation with satellite images in Ukraine”,
Data:
MODIS
AWiFS
Landsat-5/TM
LISS-III
RapidEye
Area frame sampling (segments) and along the road surveys (curves)
The benefit from satellite data usage:
Decrease of work cost in 1.5 times

7. SOAR-JECAM SAR parameters optimization for crop classification Data
Radarsat-2 (quad-pol)
27 and 30 August 2012
EO-1/ALI
28 July and 05 August 2012
Major crop types
Maize
Soybeans
Sunflower
Sugar beet
Winter and spring crops (wheat)
Radarsat-2,
RADARSAT-2 Data and Products © MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.(2012) - All Rights Reserved.
EO-1,

8. SOAR-JECAM (cont’) Classification algorithms Overall accuracy DT SVM
NN (MLP)
Overall accuracy
80.4% (MLP)
Classification map of Radarsat-2 and EO-1/ALI images using ensemble of MLPs

9. Crop rotation identification
Lviv oblast
Satellite data
Landsat7 ( )
Landsat5 ( )
Crop rotation violation
Winter rapeseed
Landsat
Landsat

10. Winter wheat yield forecasting
Three approaches
empirical regression-based model using MODIS data,
empirical regression-based model using meteorological parameters, and
adapted for Ukraine Crop Growth Monitoring System (CGMS) based on WOFOST crop growth simulation model and meteorological parameters;

11. Winter wheat forecast for 2012
Operational forecasting of winter wheat yield in Ukraine for 2012 based on Earth observation
Winter wheat forecasts for Ukraine for 2012 as of 2 June 2012

12. Collaboration with Univ. of Maryland on GEO-GLAM
Meeting in College Park, MD, USA, 07 November 2011
Discussion of tasks and current results in JECAM, and participation in GEO-GLAM
Meeting on GEO-GLAM in Kyiv, 07 April 2013
Discussion of progress in JECAM and SOAR-JECAM
Participation of Ukraine in GEO-GLAM Implementation Phases 1 and 2
Meeting at University of Maryland on GEO-GLAM and JECAM, 2011
Meeting in Kyiv on GEO-GLAM and JECAM, 2013

13. Geoportal: delivery of EO products (jecam.org.ua)
soybean, 90 ha
Not planted,
40 ha

14. Summary – 1/2 Active participation in JECAM Main tasks (using EO)
3 tests sites officially established in 2011
Main tasks (using EO)
Crop area estimation
Crop yield forecasting
Winter wheat at NUTS2 level
Crop rotation identification
Winter rape seed
Involvement of end-users
The State Science-Technological Centre of Soil Fertility Protective => crop rotation identification
Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center => crop yield forecasting

15. Summary – 2/2 SOAR-JECAM Geoportal
Feasibility of using SAR images for crop mapping for Ukrainian landscape
Geoportal
Delivery of EO products to end-users via Web
Planned contribution to GEO-GLAM Phases 1 and 2
Participation in ESA Sentinel2-Agriculture
As a “Champion User”

16. Thank you!