Monitoring agricultural productivity and climatic adaptations in Mongolia 

The MAPCAM service aims at providing crop identification and crop productivity information through the growing season to support a number of different government regulatory, policy, planning and protection functions essential to the viability and sustainability of the agricultural sector, with the longer-term aim of establishing operational services for a range of different user organisations involved in agricultural management and development in Mongolia and other cereal-producing countries. MAPCAM crop type and crop growth monitoring products for cereal and fodder crops are primarily based on time series Sentinel-1 radar data, which are acquired reliably across the whole country at 10m resolution and 12-day frequency regardless of the weather, and produced and disseminated using cloud platform technology. The service mainly targets government stakeholders concerned with regulation, planning, reporting and protection (e.g. Ministries responsible for agriculture).