Space enabled rice monitoring in the Mekong delta

The GEORICE innovator addresses research priorities within the Group of Earth Observation Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM) initiative related to SAR techniques for rice monitoring. The project developed and demonstrated EO products for crop rice stage monitoring based on the high temporal frequency of Sentinel-1 over the Mekong delta to derive statistics of rice planted area and their phenological stages. GEORICE algorithms have been implemented on a cloud platform and demonstrated to national users in Vietnam up to national scale.