Conference Agenda

AFRI4CAst - Supporting Food Security and Food Safety in Africa

Emmanuel Lekakis, Evangelos Oikonomopoulos

AgroApps SA, Greece

Data centric solutions to applied crop type classification at scale

Samuel Jonathan Barrett, Ana P S G D D Toro

Regrow Ag

EOCROP: Towards a digital twin of cropping systems based on ingestion of EO into process-based crop models

Jadu Dash¹, Lisa Emberson², Clive Blacker³, Roger Lawes⁴, Yan Zhao⁵, Tom Bishop⁶

¹University of Southampton, United Kingdom; ²The University of York,United Kingdom; ³Aganalyst Limited,United Kingdom; ⁴CSIRO, Australia; ⁵University of Queensland, Australia; ⁶University of Sydney, Australia

Using a boundary guided multi-task model for agricultural parcel delineation from remote sensing images.

Hang zhao^1,2, Bingfang Wu^1,2, Miao Zhang^1,2, Mingxing Wang^1,3

¹State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; ²College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; ³College of Resources and Environment, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China

Advancing agriculture: leveraging Earth Observation and Agro-Ecological Zoning (AEZ) modeling

Federica Chiozza¹, Filippo Sarvia¹, Dario Spiller¹, Rutendo Mukaratirwa¹, Sidra Shafiq¹, Shahla Asgharinia¹, Victor Munene¹, Kittiphon Boonma³, Swun Wunna Htet³, Sylvia Tramberend², Günther Fischer², Matieu Henry¹

¹Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy; ²International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Laxenburg, Austria; ³Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand

Estimation of winter cereals yield exploiting remotely derived phenometrics from LAI time-series

Francesco Nutini, Federico Filipponi, Lorenzo Parigi, Mirco Boschetti

national research council, Italy

Machine learning-based detection of wheat lodging score using hyperspectral measurements

Mehmet Furkan Celik, Roshanak Darvishzadeh, Padmageetha Nagarajan, Andrew Nelson

Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

Satellite-based customer complaints management tool for the potato industry

Josef Pichler, Peter Santbergen, David Alexander Kolitzus

GEO4A, Netherlands, The

Assessment of drought impact on grasslands productivity in Wallonia using Sentinel-2 multiannual time series

Cozmin LUCAU - DANILA¹, Yannick CURNEL¹, Alban JAGO¹, Himdi HAMZA², Richard LAMBERT², Viviane PLANCHON¹

¹Walloon Agricultural Research Centre, Belgium; ²Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Harnessing Data-Driven Models for Agricultural Drought Monitoring through the integration of remote sensing, ground data and meteo-climatic variables: first results

Filippo Bocchino^1,3, Riccardo Contu¹, Lorenza Ranaldi¹, Antonio Denaro³, Laura Rosatelli³, Camillo Zaccarini³, Deodato Tapete⁴, Alessandro Ursi⁴, Maria Virelli⁴, Patrizia Sacco⁴, Valeria Belloni¹, Roberta Ravanelli¹, Mattia Crespi^1,2

¹Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy; ²Sapienza School for Advanced Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; ³Institute of Services for the Agricultural and Food Market (ISMEA) - Agricultural Risk Management Department; ⁴Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy

Subnational Statistics from Field-Level Yield Estimation and Forecast: Evaluation of Models Ingesting Sentinel-2 Data.

Pierre Loup Houdmont¹, Martin Claverie², Pierre Defourny¹

¹UCLouvain, Belgium; ²JRC EU-Commission, ISPRA, Italy

Enhancing WorldCereal global wheat crop calendars: A Integration of remote sensing data with phenological modeling

Italo Giuliano Moletto-Lobos¹, Belen Franch^1,2, Andreu Guillem-Valls¹, Inbal Becker-Reshef², Shabarinath Nair², Kristof Van Tricht³, Jeroen Degerickx³, Christina Butsko³

¹University of Valencia, Spain; ²Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; ³Vlaamse Instelling Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO), Mol, Belgium

Upscaling and downscaling approaches for early season rice yield prediction using Sentinel-2 and machine learning for precision nitrogen fertilisation

Giorgio Impollonia, Michele Croci, Stefano Amaducci

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Irrigation monitoring from space: a novel method assimilating high-resolution Sentinel-1 soil moisture data into a crop water balance model and prospects for future research

Pierre Laluet¹, Wouter Dorigo¹, Luis Enrique Olivera-Guerra⁶, Víctor Altés^3,4, Giovanni Paolini³, Nadia Ouaadi^2,5, Vincent Rivalland², Lionel Jarlan², Josep Maria Villar⁴, Olivier Merlin²

¹Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria; ²Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), Université de Toulouse, CNES-CNRS-IRD-UPS-INRAE, Toulouse, France; ³isardSAT, Marie Curie 8-14, Parc Tecnològic Barcelona Activa, Barcelona, Spain; ⁴Soils and Water Research group, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain; ⁵GMME/SURFACE, Meteo-France/CNRM, Toulouse, France; ⁶Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ-UPSACLAY, UMR 8212, IPSL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Detecting land use change and defining agricultural land loss in recent years in the case of urbanisation: A case study of Northern Cyprus

can kara¹, nuhcan akcit²

¹Department of Architecture, Near East University, Nicosia, North Cyprus; ²Department of Geodetic and Geographic Information Technology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Development of rice and wheat crop masks over the Gharbia governorate in Egypt using Sen2like images.

César José Guerrero Benavent¹, Belen Franch Gras^1,2, Italo Moletto Lobos¹, Javier Tarín Mestre¹, Kate Cyran¹, Ahmed El Baroudi³

¹Global Change Unit, Parc Científic, University of València (Paterna), 4498, Spain; ²Dept of Geographical Sciencies, Univesity of Maryland, College Park MD 20742, United States; ³Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tanta, 31527 Tanta, Egypt

Applicability of spectral heterogeneity for measuring crop diversity in two agroforestry systems

Gina Maskell

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

Leveraging Earth Observation for estimating the Global Burden of Crop Loss

Anna Maria Szyniszewska¹, Bryony Taylor¹, Molly Brown², Nicola Pounder³, Salar Mahmood¹, Dan Bebber⁴, Gaby Oliver¹, Cambria Finegold¹

¹CABI, United Kingdom; ²University of Maryland, USA; ³Assimila, UK; ⁴University of Exeter, UK

Salinity and water stress captured by satellite leaf area index and land surface temperature assimilated into a crop-energy-water balance model

Nicola Paciolla¹, Chiara Corbari¹, Davide Gabrieli², Greta Rossi¹, Pietro Teatini³, Ester Zancanaro³, Drazen Skokovic⁴, Josè Sobrino⁴, Francesco Morari²

¹Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²DAFNAE, Università di Padova, Italy; ³ICEA, Università di Padova, Italy; ⁴Universitat de Valencia, Spain

COMPASS – A decision support system for irrigation scheduling for wheat farmers from Northwest Mexico

Francelino Augusto Rodrigues Junior¹, Mohamed Jabloun², Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio³, Kevin Shannon⁴, Neil Crout⁵

¹Independent Consultant, Italy; ²The James Hutton Institute, Craigie buckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, UK.; ³International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), El Batan, Mexico.; ⁴Hexcuity Limited, Bee House 140 Eastern Avenue, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, OX14 4SB; ⁵University of Nottingham, School of Biosciences, Sutton Bonington, LE12 5RD, UK.

Early-season crop yield prediction using high-resolution satellite data and crop models: from sub-field to regional level

Matteo G. Ziliani, Boonyarit Changaival, Kim Fischer, Rim Sleimi, Paulius Sarka, Albert Abelló, Florian Werner

HYDROSAT, Luxembourg

Innovative operational services and research activities combining earth observation data and AI in Norway

Jonathan Rizzi, Nicolai Munsterhjelm, Robert Barneveld, Arnt Kristian Gjertsen, Shivesh Karan, Thi Phuong Huyen Vu, Bjørn Tobias Borchsenius

NIBIO, Norway

Prediction of Species Richness and Diversity in Sub-alpine Grasslands Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Random Forest Machine Learning Algorithm

Katlego Mashiane, Abel Ramoelo, Samuel Adelabu

University of the Free State, South Africa

Sentinel-2 data fusion with GEOSAT 2 very high resolution data

César Fernández, Silvia Fraile, Carolina de Castro, Maria Elena Calleja, Rafael Sousa, Lucia García, Ruben Niño

GEOSAT Satellites, Spain

Assessing Water Use Efficiency in Agroecosystems Using High-Resolution Satellite Data: A Case Study of Olive Plantations

Jamal Elfarkh, Bouchra Ait Hsaine

Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco

Quantifying the impact of Sri Lanka's fertilizer ban on rice yields with Sentinels

Mutlu Ozdogan¹, Sherrie Wang², Devaki Gose³, Eduardo Fraga³, Ana Fernandes³, Gonzalo Verela³

¹University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America; ²MIT, United States of America; ³World Bank, United States of America

Enhancing Wheat Water Productivity and Area Yield Index Insurance through WaPOR database for Agro-Advisory Services in Ethiopia

Mulugeta Tadesse¹, Desalegn Tegegne¹, Muluken E. Adamseged¹, Dagmawi Melaku¹, Mussie Alemayehu², Mohammed Abdella¹

¹IWMI East Africa; ²FAO Ethiopia

Forecasting the population development of within-season insect crop pests in sub-Saharan Africa: the Pest Risk Information Service

Charlotte Day¹, Taylor Bryony¹, Styles Jon², Mibei Henry¹, Beale Tim¹, Oronje MaryLucy¹, Shaw Andy², Mahony Josie², Lowry Alyssa¹

¹CABI, United Kingdom; ²Assimila Ltd, United Kingdom

AI tools in Agri DSS pipeline - the case of irrigated sugarbeet

Carlos Ferraz

HEMAV Technology, S.L., Spain

AgroSuite – Innovative Earth Observation Solutions for Agricultural Insurance

Peter Navratil

GAF AG, Germany

Detecting Drought-induced Crop Failure in Winter Cereals using Sentinel-2

KAREN TORRES^1,2, ADRIA DESCALS^1,2, ALEIXANDRE VERGER^1,2,3, JOSEP PEÑUELAS^1,2

¹Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals - UAB; ²CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB; ³CIDE, CSIC-UV-GV

Synergizing In-Situ Data Lifecycle through Collaborative Initiatives for Crop Mapping

Arun Kumar Pratihast¹, Hendrik Boogaard¹, Juan Carlos Laso Bayas², Santosh Karanam², Steffen Fritz², Kristof Van Tricht³, Jeroen Degerickx³

¹Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR), Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands; ²International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria; ³Vlaamse Instelling Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO), Mol, Belgium

Fight Xylella Fastidiosa (Fixyll): downstream services in support of Xylella containment actions

Pietro Sciusco

Planetek Italia s.r.l., Italy

Fusing Sentinel-3 and ECOSTRESS observations for a more accurate, high-resolution crop water stress indicator

Louis Snyders¹, Jeroen Degerickx¹, Jonathan Leon Tavares¹, Aolin Jia², Tian Hu², Kaniska Mallick², Veronika Otto³, Joris Blommaert¹

¹VITO, Belgium; ²LIST, Luxemburg; ³VISTA, Germany

Operational Machine Learning Models for Nation-level Yield Predictions

Inti Luna¹, Vasileios Sitokonstantinou¹, Maria Piles¹, Jordi Muñoz¹, Gustau Camps-Valls¹, Filip Sabo², Michele Meroni², Francesco Collivignarelli², Petar Vojnovic², Herve Kerdiles², Felix Rembold², Mario Zappacosta³, Jonathan Pound³

¹Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) - Universitat de València,46980 Paterna, València, Spain; ²European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 21027 Ispra, Italy; ³Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Developing an early indicator of drought from EO-derived crop Biophysical Variables: Insights from Cereal Crop Regions in Europe

Zaib un nisa, Booker Ogutu, Jadu Dash

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Temporal characterization of crop phenology using satellite imagery and field surveys across the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon

Fadi Sami KARAM, Nadine Nassif, Abdul Halim Mouneimne, Carole El Hachem, Ingrid Saadeh

Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Lebanese University, Main Road to Mkalles Roundabout, Dekwaneh, Lebanon

NPK DSS - A Model for Optimizing the Timing and Spatial Distribution of Fertilization

Alessandro Vignati, Francesco Saverio Santaga

Agricolus SRL, Via Settevalli 320, 06129 Perugia, Italy

NPK DSS - A Model for Optimizing the Timing and Spatial Distribution of Fertilization

Alessandro Vignati, Francesco Saverio Santaga

Agricolus SRL, Via Settevalli 320, 06129 Perugia, Italy

ICAERUS: Innovations and Capacity Building in Agricultural, Environmental, and Rural UAV Services - Crop Monitoring and Drone Spraying Use Cases

AIKATERINI KASIMATI¹, VASILIS PSIROUKIS¹, ESTHER VERA², ALDO SOLLAZZO², SPYROS FOUNTAS¹

¹Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos Str., 11855 Athens, Greece; ²Noumena, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 690, 08010, Barcelona, Spain

Open data for information on water accessibility by women in Machakos County, Kenya

Nancy Kananu Marangu

Chemichemi Foundation, Kenya

Development of high resolution irrigation estimates in the Italy under drought stress.

Muhammad Usman Liaqat¹, Luca Brocca¹, Jacopo Dari^1,2, Paolo Filippucci¹

¹Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, National Research Council, Perugia, Italy; ²Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Harvest estimation in barley and wheat plots using Sentinel-2 Imagery

Miguel Herrezuelo, Vicente Burchard-Levine, Benjamin Mary, Héctor Nieto

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain

Combining Earth Observation data and Machine Learning to estimate industrial tomato yield response to climate change in Piacenza province, Italy

Sara Magazzino¹, Maria Luisa Quarta¹, Noemi Fazzini¹, Maximilien Houël², Monia Santini³, Sofia Pellegatta⁴, Rob Carrillo⁵

¹MEEO S.r.l., Italy; ²SISTEMA GmbH, Austria; ³CMCC Foundation, Italy; ⁴Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy; ⁵Trust-IT Services, Italy

EO Africa Water Resource Management: support to farmers and planners to improve irrigation water management

Anna Maria Deflorio¹, Vito Depasquale¹, Pietro Sciusco¹, Ahmed Ali Ayoub Abdelmoneim², Bilal Derardja², Mohammed El-Shirbeny³, Dionisis Grigoriadis⁴, Maria Ieronymaki⁴, Emmanouela Ieronymidi⁴, Roula Khadra², Theophilos Valsamidis⁴, Espen Volden⁵, Hosam Bendary⁶

¹Planetek Italia s.r.l., Italy; ²CIHEAM Bari (International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies - Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Italy; ³National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo; ⁴Planetek Hellas - 44 Kifisias Avenue, 15125 Marousi, Athens, Greece; ⁵ESA ESRIN; ⁶Sixth of October for Agricultural Projects company (OSAP)

Online Crop Modelling Service to Support Irrigation and Agricultural Insurance via the Danube Information Factory

Márton Tolnai

CropOM-Hungary Kft., Hungary

Spotting the drought: A crop digital twin reveals how 2022's record summer affected cereal grain yields in Switzerland

Lukas Valentin Graf^1,2, Gregor Perich^1,2

¹Terensis GmbH, Switzerland; ²Crop Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Improved crop monitoring and yield estimation by integrating satellite and in-situ sensor data

Isabelle Piccard¹, Laurent Tits¹, Sam Oswald¹, Kristof Van Tricht¹, Giorgia Milli¹, Koen Uyttenhove², Koen Van Rossum¹

¹VITO, Belgium; ²AVR bvba, Belgium

EuroCrops

Ayshah Chan^1,2, Maja Schneider¹, Marco Körner^1,2

¹Technical University of Munich (TUM), TUM School of Engineering and Design, Chair of Remote Sensing Technology, Arcisstr. 21, Munich, Germany; ²Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI)

Waterbox model: a new approach to precise monitoring of crop water needs and excess

Mauro Roscini, Matteo Cardinali, Emanuele Ranieri

Agricolus srl, Italy

Sentinel-2 and Eco-schemes: Shaping the Future of Agriculture under CAP 2023-2027

Filippo Sarvia¹, Samuele De Petris¹, Alessandro Farbo¹, Francesco Parizia¹, Gianluca Cantamessa², Elena Xausa², Enrico Borgogno-Mondino¹

¹Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, L.go Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy; ²Agenzia Regionale Piemontese per le Erogazioni in Agricoltura (ARPEA), Via Bogino 23, 10123 Torino, Italy

High-resolution baseline of soil organic carbon stocks on a large scale: Insights from a regional living laboratory on crop rotation in Emilia-Romagna

Michele Croci¹, Gohar Ghazaryan², Andrea Ferrarini¹, Giorgio Impollonia¹, Claas Nendel², Stefano Amaducci¹

¹Departement of Sustainable Crop Production, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Piacenza, via Emilia Parmense, 84, 29122 Piacenza, PC, Italy; ²Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany