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food-security

WorldCereal releases global seasonal crop type maps
  • Agriculture,
  • food security,
  • worldcereal

WorldCereal releases global seasonal crop type maps

By Sven Gilliams 20.04.2023

In June 2020 the WorldCereal consortium started on a scientific adventure to develop an opensource, agile and robust system for global agricultural..

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Will our potatoes be fried before the yield?
  • Agriculture,
  • WatchITgrow®,
  • EO Data,
  • food security,
  • CurieuzeNeuzen in de Tuin

Will our potatoes be fried before the yield?

By Bart Deronde 11.08.2022

Last summer extreme rainfall caused devastating floods in the South of Belgium. This summer we’re experiencing a major drought, the fifth in the last six..

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What happens on the fields? Monitoring the crop calendars
  • Agriculture,
  • food security,
  • e-shape,
  • eurogeo,
  • geo

What happens on the fields? Monitoring the crop calendars

By Kasper Bonte 07.07.2021
About a year ago, we introduced you to the H2020 e-shape project. Based on user need analysis, we started updating and developing agricultural services to..
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e-shape to support sustainable agriculture in Europe
  • Agriculture,
  • food security,
  • e-shape,
  • eurogeo,
  • geo

e-shape to support sustainable agriculture in Europe

By Sven Gilliams 08.06.2020

Just past the first anniversary of the e-shape project, you should by now all know our slogan; We e-shape EuroGeo!! But what does it mean? What is..

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ASIS, the tool for global agriculture drought monitoring
  • Agriculture,
  • EO Data,
  • food security,
  • drought monitoring,
  • ASIS

ASIS, the tool for global agriculture drought monitoring

By Roel Van Hoolst 16.10.2018

The balance between the food demand and availability is becoming more and more fragile in many parts of the world. To feed the rapidly growing population,

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A Sentinel shake for early crop mapping
  • Agriculture,
  • Multitemporal image analysis,
  • Sentinel,
  • food security,
  • deep learning,
  • radar,
  • optical

A Sentinel shake for early crop mapping

By Kristof Van Tricht 17.07.2018

The growing world population and its related ever-growing food demand requires a close monitoring of the agricultural landscape and timely estimates of..

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EO data for agricultural insurance
  • Agriculture,
  • EO Data,
  • food security,
  • Index insurance,
  • SDG's

EO data for agricultural insurance

By Francesco Rispoli 06.03.2018

Tonight at dinner you might not think about poverty, hunger, and poor nutrition, but unfortunately that’s not the case for one in nine people in the..

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Supporting food security from space
  • Time series,
  • Agriculture,
  • Multitemporal image analysis,
  • PROBA-V,
  • Sentinel-2,
  • food security

Supporting food security from space

By Erwin Goor 15.12.2017

For a food secure world, agriculture needs to get digital, i.e. we need “smart” agriculture to ensure food for all. Combining and analyzing this “Big..

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