Satellite crop monitoring is the technology which facilitates real-time crop vegetation index monitoring via spectral analysis of high resolution

satellite A satellite or artificial satellite is an object intentionally placed into orbit in outer space. Except for passive satellites, most satellites have an electricity generation system for equipment on board, such as solar panels or radioi ...

images for different fields and crops which enables to track positive and negative dynamics of crop development. The difference in vegetation index informs about single-crop development disproportions that speaks for the necessity of additional agriculture works on particular field zones—that is because satellite crop monitoring belongs to

precision agriculture Precision agriculture (PA) is a farming management strategy based on observing, measuring and responding to temporal and spatial variability to improve agricultural production sustainability. It is used in both crop and livestock production. ...

methods. Satellite crop monitoring technology allows to perform online crop monitoring on different fields, located in different areas, regions, even countries and on different continents. The technology's advantage is a high automation level of sown area condition and its interpretation in an interactive map which can be read by different groups of users. Satellite crop monitoring technology users are: * agronomists and agriculture companies management (crop vegetation control, crop yield forecasting, management decisions optimization); * business owners (business prospects estimates, making reasonable decisions on capital investments, providing information for management decisions); * investors and investment analysts (investment potential estimation, making investment decisions, making sustainable forecasts); * insurance brokers (data collection, clients claims verification, scale of rates and insurance premium amounts calculation); * agriculture machinery producers (integration of crop monitoring solutions with agriculture machinery board computers operations, functional development); * state and sectoral organisations engaged in agriculture,

food security Food security speaks to the availability of food in a country (or geography) and the ability of individuals within that country (geography) to access, afford, and source adequate foodstuffs. According to the United Nations' Committee on World ...

and ecological problems."The role of satellite monitoring in food security problems solution", Institute for Environment and Sustainability(EC): Global monitoring of agriculture and food security
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eoMapper

Space profits

FAO

International Efficient Agriculture Solutions and Standards Association

Satellite Crop Monitoring Review

GEOSYS

Ministry of Agriculture of China
E-agriculture Earth observation satellites Biogeography Remote sensing Environmental monitoring Satellite imagery

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