Agricultural Crop Monitoring and Assessment driven by Satellites

The main objective of the DROMAS service is to enable operational full country monitoring of agricultural crops to respond to the needs of the Czech State Agricultural Intervention Fund (SAIF). The focus is to support the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) in the Czech Republic, namely the on-the-spot control of aid applications and management of the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS). The service will be based on an innovative tool providing continuously updated information on crop types and crop cover within a single crop vegetation period to the national administration. The service products are thematic maps with an associated metadata layer for anomaly detection allowing agro-environmental degradation and agricultural crop damages to be monitored on the agricultural parcel level. All products are enhanced by field survey validation. The service will be provided on-line via web mapping services.