Closed
3 years and a half (2011-2015)
Earth Observation
Agriculture and forestry management
121 000 €
Technicians from national institutions
Students
Enhancing Earth Observation Capacity for Agriculture & Forest Management in Africa
AGRICAB is a project designed to strengthen the use of Earth Observation across the African continent. It builds on the data provided through the GEONETCast system, combining satellite information with other data sources and predictive models. This integration paves the way for improved planning and more informed management of agriculture and forestry.
For the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS), AGRICAB comes to reinforce the momentum of earlier initiatives, particularly the studies conducted within the NWSAS framework for water abstraction assessment.
As such, AGRICAB contributes to consolidating existing achievements while expanding monitoring tools, placing them at the service of sustainable natural resource management.
- European Union - EU
- 1:25,000-scale land cover map based on high-resolution satellite images of Touggourt, Médenine, and Tripoli;
- Spatio-temporal mapping of vegetation cover in the NWSAS area based on time series of vegetation indices (Mod13Q1) from 2004 to 2014.
GEONETCast
- Installation of an Earth observation data receiving station at the OSS;
- Publication of an information note on GEONETCast data and a survey of the African remote sensing community to better adapt the products to spatial observation needs;
- Case study to address vegetation anomalies in the OSS area of operation using data received via the GEONETCast station and time series made available by VITO.