2023-09-22 17:57:00
To develop this mapping, an international team led by VITO developed WorldCereal, a publicly available system that uses satellite images from the European Union’s Copernicus program.
This system provides the first large-scale, high-resolution global maps of grain and corn production. These maps are also updated following each agricultural season.
WorldCereal is open source software, meaning it is accessible not only to national and international institutions, but also to the private sector, such as insurance companies.
In 2022, the system was used to objectively map agricultural activities in Ukraine. To do this, the Flemish institute collaborated with NASA. ESA and VITO are investigating the possibility of expanding WorldCereal to other agricultural crops.
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