Satellite Applications for Development and Humanitarian Challenges

A catalogue of satellite applications from around the world that address sustainable development and humanitarian challenges. This catalogue demonstrates the various use cases for which space technology can be applied and gives examples of applications that have been developed and deployed.

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Catalogue

  • Using satellite imagery in conflict-affected areas in Mali to support WFP’s emergency response

    Agriculture and Food Security, World Food Programme (WFP)

    A pilot study was carried out by the World Food Programme (WFP) Mali in the Mopti region in 2019 where earth observation data was used to detect cropland abandonment in hard-to-reach areas to assess the physical impacts of conflict on croplands and therefore detect populations in likely need of food assistance.

  • Yemen’s agriculture in distress

    Agriculture and Food Security, Conflict and Environment Observatory

    This project uses open-source datasets to show the agricultural areas in distress and investigate to what extent the conflict has been responsible for the deterioration.

  • Sustainable Technology Adaptation for Mali’s Pastoralists (STAMP)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Orange

    STAMP aims to improve resilience among climate affected pastoralists, through access to and use of geo-satellite derived data. This will result in an information service tailor-made to pastoralists’ information and decision making needs, giving them more predictability for their movements.

  • EvIDENz – Earth Observation based information products for drought risk reduction on the national level

    Agriculture and Food Security, Center for Remote Sensing of the Land Surfaces (ZFL) at the University of Bonn

    The overall objective of the EvIDENz project is to develop and demonstrate methods and products on drought risk assessment that respond to national needs for the example of South Africa and Ukraine, and defined indicators of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR).

  • Implications of climate, land-use and land-cover changes for pastoralism in eastern Sudan

    Agriculture and Food Security, STARS

    This study examines the changes in climate and land-use/land-cover (LULC) along the livestock seasonal migration routes in El Gedaref region (eastern Sudan).

  • Crop Observation, Management and Production Analysis Services System (COMPASS)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Rezatec

    The project will provide customer specific decision support tools to help growers, including smallholders, improve their technical, environmental and financial performance.

  • Creating Consumer Profiles For Rural Africa

    Agriculture and Food Security, Fraym

    Satellite imagery, household surveys, and cloud computing can be used to reveal population characteristics in countries, cities, and neighborhoods across the entire African continent.

  • Satellite Technologies, Innovative and Smart Financing for Food Security (SATISFY)

    Agriculture and Food Security, International Food Policy Research Institute

    It proposed a market-based innovative risk management solution in the form of Risk-Contingent Credit (RCC), a linked or bundled financial product that incorporates insurance protection, providing a risk-efficient balance between business and financial risks.

  • FruitLook

    Agriculture and Food Security, eLeaf

    FruitLook provides weekly, semi real-time information on crop growth, evapotranspiration deficits and crop nitrogen status for irrigation blocks in orchards and vineyards in key growing areas of the Western Cape.

  • Innovative Data Project to Support Efforts in Combating Fall Armyworm

    Agriculture and Food Security, Self Help Africa

    A pilot project by Self Help Africa using satellite imagery, heat mapping and mobile phone technology to gather data for the fight against an invading pest that threatens Africa’s food crops, has won an international award for innovation.

  • Crop Mycotoxin Management

    Agriculture and Food Security, SPATIAL BUSINESS INTEGRATION GMBH

    Disease risk maps showing the in-field risk zones of the most important wheat diseases during the vegetation period.

  • SAT4Farming

    Agriculture and Food Security, Rainforest Alliance

    SAT4Farming, an initiative to reach thousands of small-scale cocoa producers with information and services to improve their productivity and sustainability. It is designed to use digital technology and satellite imagery to create individual Farm Development Plans (FDPs) that guide farmers over a seven-year period.

  • Ag|knowledge 4.0

    Agriculture and Food Security, GEOCLEDIAN GMBH

    Ag|Knowledge 4.0 is a novel concept of an online platform providing the required integrated analytical services and indicators for agricultural risk monitoring.

  • Improving Food Security and Agricultural Competitiveness (IFSAC)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Satellite Applications Catapult

    The Satellite Applications Catapult has been working with users from across the agricultural sector in Latin America to educate and demonstrate how satellite technologies can help optimise the production of rice, soybean, and table grapes.

  • EOLO

    Agriculture and Food Security, FARM TECHNOLOGIES SRL

    EOLO is a service to support agronomists and corn growers in their daily decisions about irrigation and phytosanitary treatments, with the goal to save costs related to water, energy costs and treatments.

  • Tumaini

    Agriculture and Food Security, CGIAR

    The tool is a mobile application that merges expertise on banana genetic resources with artificial intelligence to quickly identify common afflictions that threaten bananas, allowing farmers and extension workers to act quickly and save their crops.

  • Kenya: an insurance scheme based on satellite data for vulnerable pastoralists

    Agriculture and Food Security, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

    In 2010 ILRI, Cornell and other partners, launched an insurance scheme based on satellite imagery to predict and compensate insured pastoralists for livestock losses due to drought.

  • Agriculture & Rural

    Agriculture and Food Security, GeoVille

    Satellite Earth observation is a powerful technique for continuously providing geospatial information across the agricultural value chain, to measure productivity and increase efficiency of agriculture, identify sustainability of farming practices and strengthening the resilience of rural communities.

  • ESRI Land Cover

    Agriculture and Food Security, Impact Observatory

    A 10-meter resolution map of Earth’s land surface from 2020. High-resolution, open, accurate, comparable, and timely land cover maps are critical for decision-makers in many industry sectors and developing nations. These maps improve understanding of important topics such as food security, land use planning, hydrology modeling, and resource management planning. In addition, national government resource agencies use land cover as a basis for understanding trends in the country's natural capital, which helps define land planning priorities and is the basis of budget allocations.

  • Accurately assess agriculture risk

    Agriculture and Food Security, UP42

    Determine risk factors associated with reducing or eliminating crop yield based on historical weather, geohazards, and crop health.

  • BioGenerator

    Agriculture and Food Security, Action Against Hunger

    The BioGenerator uses satellite data to analyse plant production, or biomass, during the rainy season. Detecting production anomalies allows areas vulnerable to drought to be targeted. The BioGenerator is used by the SAP (Early Warning System) in Mali.

  • Satellite Supported Financial Inclusion for Smallholders (SSFIS)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Sensonomic

    This project addresses the non-functioning market for capital allocation to smallholders.

  • Agriculture

    Agriculture and Food Security, Satsure

    Satellites give us detailed geographical and climate records of any place in the world, from the 1990s to today. We build on field research by collecting and analyzing this data and combining it with other relevant information like commodity prices and news coverage.

  • Turning over a New Leaf for Agricultural Financing with Frequent Crop Monitoring from Space

    Agriculture and Food Security, ICEYE

    ICEYE provides timely and reliable data with its growing SAR satellite constellation, with customized solutions to help boost agricultural financing and improve control processes.

  • Croplytics

    Agriculture and Food Security, Agsmartic

    Croplytics® integrates sensor data and satellite imagery to translate data into actionable information for agribusinesses. It deploys the soil sensors on ground, uses satellites data, collects weather data, calculates ET and thereby build a model to provide agronomists and farmers with timely and large-scale diagnostics on crop issues.

  • We help African smallholder farmers adapt to climate change

    Agriculture and Food Security, Plant Village

    Satellites continually scan African fields meaning continental wide monitoring and prediction is possible. PlantVillage utilizes many open-access tools that use remote sensing (MODIS / Landsat / NOAA / Sentinel / SMOS / FEWS NET).

  • Yield Forecast

    Agriculture and Food Security, eLeaf

    It uses up to date satellite based crop production information and crop specific yield models to provide further information on future outcomes.

  • WaPOR

    Agriculture and Food Security, FAO

    Using WaPOR it is possible to detect signals of vegetation stress linked to weather patterns, allowing farmers, government agencies and the international community to prepare for changes in agricultural output and to implement mitigation measures.

  • Using satellite imagery in conflict-affected areas in Mali to support WFPÕs emergency response

    Agriculture and Food Security, World Food Programme (WFP)

    A pilot study was carried out by the World Food Programme (WFP) Mali in the Mopti region in 2019 where earth observation data was used to detect cropland abandonment in hard-to-reach areas to assess the physical impacts of conflict on croplands and therefore detect populations in likely need of food assistance.

  • YemenÕs agriculture in distress

    Agriculture and Food Security, Conflict and Environment Observatory

    This project uses open-source datasets to show the agricultural areas in distress and investigate to what extent the conflict has been responsible for the deterioration.

  • Improved Agricultural Monitoring Systems through Satellite Imagery for Iran

    Agriculture and Food Security, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

    Establish an operational Agriculture Monitoring System based on sustainable methods, tools and technology, that improves the quality of agriculture information and reporting based on the integral use of geospatial technology.

  • NDVI Analysis

    Agriculture and Food Security, UN HABITAT

    Using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) remote sensing method, regional agricultural activity and vegetation on the ground was monitored and analysed by registering the spectral signature of chlorophyll and therefore the vegetation canopy, on a satellite sensor using a sequence of images over time.

  • AfriScout

    Agriculture and Food Security, Global Communities

    AfriScout’s unique crowd-sourcing system of geolocated alerts enables pastoralists to enhance collaboration on land management by allocating specific areas to different herders.

  • Sustainable Technology Adaptation for Mali’s Pastoralists (STAMP)

    Agriculture and Food Security, SNV Netherlands

    The STAMP (Sustainable Technology Adaptation for Mali's Pastoralists) project improves resilience among pastoralists affected by extreme climate events through access and use of geo-satellite derived data via the development of a dedicated information service.

  • Monitoring Ephemeral Water Bodies in Ferlo

    Agriculture and Food Security, AGRHYMET/SERVIR-WA

    The Monitoring Ephemeral Water Bodies in Ferlo, Senegal Service is a web-based platform for assessing water availability in all known ponds, thus facilitating water management in arid areas such as the Ferlo Region of Senegal.

  • Space-age technology points African herders in right direction

    Agriculture and Food Security, Cornell

    In a pilot project launched by Cornell researchers, satellite images and cell-phone apps will combine to help them find forage for their animals.

  • Project Concern International

    Agriculture and Food Security, USAID

    Project Concern International has developed customized digital community grazing maps overlaid with vegetation data derived from NASA satellites.

  • Establishing an operational waterhole monitoring system using satellite data and hydrologic modelling: Application in the pastoral regions of East Africa

    Agriculture and Food Security, U.S. Geological Survey

    A multi-source water balance modelling approach driven by satellite data was used to operationally monitor daily water level fluctuations across the pastoral regions of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia.

  • EO4SD – Desert Locust impact assessment

    Agriculture and Food Security, Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS)

    The objective of the study was to evaluate the use of a time series technique that, when used with robust field training data, could be used to help identify agricultural fields showing anomalous vegetation signatures for targeted locust response and mitigation efforts.

  • Tanzania National Food Security Bulletin

    Agriculture and Food Security, Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture

    National Food Security bulletins developed using the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor, Global Agriculture Monitoring System (GLAM) and Early Warning Explorer.

  • Uganda government project

    Agriculture and Food Security, GEOGLAM

    In 2017 the Office of the Prime Minister of Uganda used GEOGLAM satellite data to detect and forecast drought and initiate a proactive risk reduction and response plan three months earlier than they previously had.

  • Using satellite multispectral imagery for damage mapping of armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) in maize at a regional scale

    Agriculture and Food Security, Society of Chemical Industry

    The objectives of this study were to determine suitable spectral features for armyworm detection and to develop a mapping method at a regional scale on the basis of satellite remote sensing image data.

  • MODHEM Burkina Faso

    Agriculture and Food Security, Netherlands Space Office (NSO)

    The Mobile Data for Moving Herd Management (MODHEM) project in Burkina Faso uses satellite data to inform pastoralists on the best locations for pastures and water areas via their mobile phones. Additionally, an early warning system will warn pastoralists of flooding, drought, and disease.

  • Stock Water

    Agriculture and Food Security, Space Climate Observatory

    StockWater aims to put in place a system for monitoring the load of dams based on satellite data, and a specific processing system, thereby facilitating the work of the public authorities in this area.

  • EO4SD – Rice-SDP

    Agriculture and Food Security, eLeaf

    EO4SD defined and will develop a cluster of land information services that will be delivered to the ADB and their stakeholders in the form of mapping and monitoring tools and training activities in order to enhance the success of the respective projects in Cambodia.

  • Sustainable Technology Adaptation for MaliÕs Pastoralists (STAMP)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Orange

    STAMP aims to improve resilience among climate affected pastoralists, through access to and use of geo-satellite derived data. This will result in an information service tailor-made to pastoralistsÕ information and decision making needs, giving them more predictability for their movements.

  • EO4SD – The Atlas Mountains Rural Development Project (PDRMA)

    Agriculture and Food Security, eLeaf

    A cluster of land information services that were delivered to IFAD and the national level stakeholders: Land cover change mapping, Tools to assess land degradation and environmental conditions, Value chain assessment.

  • Water Availability

    Agriculture and Food Security, Pixalytics

    Pixalytics has derived soil moisture content, water body height and water extent – which includes both water bodies and saturated ground – information using microwave data from Earth observation (EO) satellites that can be used to identify and map water sources and water availability.

  • Rangeland Analysis Platform

    Agriculture and Food Security, University of Montana

    The Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) is an interactive web application designed to assist in managing and monitoring America’s valuable rangelands.

  • aWhere

    Agriculture and Food Security, Mercy Corps

    aWhere delivers weather-based agricultural intelligence to farmers, companies, development agencies and governments to enable data-driven decisions on adapting to increased weather variability at a local to global scale.

  • Crop Monitor

    Agriculture and Food Security, GEOGLAM

    Open, timely, and science-driven information on crop conditions in support of market transparency and early warning of production shortfalls.

  • NASA SERVIR – Regional Cropland Assessment and Monitoring Service

    Agriculture and Food Security, RCMRD/NASA SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa

    The service facilitates a crop modeling framework to assess drought and yields estimates using CHIRPS data for precipitation estimates and crop type maps derived from Landsat and Sentinel.

  • Enhancing Food Security in African AgriCultural Systems with the support of Remote Sensing (AfriCultuReS)

    Agriculture and Food Security, GMV

    To contribute towards an integrated agricultural monitoring and early warning system for Africa, supporting decision making in the field of food security.

  • Crop Insurance & Satellite-Based Solutions For Farmers’

    Agriculture and Food Security, Earth Observation System (EOS)

    Satellite monitoring is an effective tool capable of observing the state of crops. It can be used by the agricultural insurance companies to a great advantage.

  • Yield index insurance products to protect farmers

    Agriculture and Food Security, Pula Advisors

    Pula is an agricultural insurance and technology company that designs and delivers innovative agricultural insurance and digital products to help smallholder farmers endure yield risks, improve their farming practices, and bolster their incomes over time.

  • Accelerating the Implementation of the Core Agriculture Support Program

    Agriculture and Food Security, University of Tokyo

    The consultant developed the system that provides near-real-time satellite-based drought indices and provincial level drought warning information for policy makers.

  • Improving Agricultural and Rural Statistics for Food Security

    Agriculture and Food Security, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

    This technical assistance project assisted the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) of the Philippines in implementing the Agricultural Land Information System (ALIS), a tool for an area sample survey method using personal computers that estimates agricultural land area and enables area sampling with minimal labor and low budgets.

  • EO4SD- Great Green Wall Initiative

    Agriculture and Food Security, eLeaf

    The EO4SD project provided data, information and methods designed for monitoring land degradation/regeneration as well as desertification and land use trends.

  • Sen2-Agri

    Agriculture and Food Security, European Space Agency (ESA)

    Sen2-Agri aims to provide the international user community with validated earth observation (EO) algorithms and best practices for agricultural monitoring.

  • MexiCorn

    Agriculture and Food Security, Space Climate Observatory

    This project proposes the creation of an operational tool using data from optical and microwave sensors onboard of Earth observation satellites to monitor corn-growing areas.

  • Climate-Resilient Rural Livelihoods in Mongolia

    Agriculture and Food Security, Deimos Engenharia

    The project is assisting the ADB ”Establishment of Climate-Resilient Rural Livelihoods” project, which in turn supports the Mongolian government’s efforts to develop a sustainable, climate resilient livestock sector and combat the degradation of grasslands due to overgrazing and climate change.

  • IRRISAT-MOROCCO

    Agriculture and Food Security, Space Climate Observatory

    IRRISAT-MAROC aims to implement a system to help optimize irrigation water using satellite data.

  • EvIDENz Ð Earth Observation based information products for drought risk reduction on the national level

    Agriculture and Food Security, Center for Remote Sensing of the Land Surfaces (ZFL) at the University of Bonn

    The overall objective of the EvIDENz project is to develop and demonstrate methods and products on drought risk assessment that respond to national needs for the example of South Africa and Ukraine, and defined indicators of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR).

  • EO4SD – Satellite-derived information to assess the consequences of armed conflict on the agriculture sector

    Agriculture and Food Security, eLeaf

    An ESA EO4SD-Agriculture and Rural Development project provided an analysis of agricultural production (losses) in areas under conflict in Syria.

  • Vimesco-rice

    Agriculture and Food Security, Space Climate Observatory

    The objective of this project is to provide users in Vietnam with a demonstrator of operational tools for the dynamic monitoring of rice crops using radar-based remote sensing data.

  • Vietnam Data Cube (VDC)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Vietnam National Space Center (VNSC)

    VNSC has developed and operated the Vietnam Data Cube (VDC), a country scale system of ODC which focus on the SAR data since the fact that Vietnam are expecting its own SAR satellite in next few years. The VDC is currently collecting satellite data: Landsat, Sentinel-1 & -2, ALOS-2 from the USGS, ESA, and JAXA for research and monitoring purposes in fields such as forest monitoring, rice monitoring and water quality monitoring in Vietnam.

  • AfriCultuReS Decision Support System (ADSS) Community Version

    Agriculture and Food Security, South African National Space Agency

    The project will deliver space based agricultural production services that are aligned with the African Space Policy and Strategy and AfriGEOSS, the African segment of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) in the domain of food security.

  • agriBORA

    Agriculture and Food Security, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)

    agriBORA is an integrated SaaS platform focused on utilizing location-based insights to de-risk smallholder agriculture systems through the use of data-driven services and digital tools.

  • Kenyan Livestock Insurance Programme (KLIP)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Government of Kenya

    The Kenyan Livestock Insurance Programme (KLIP) is provided by the government to protect the most vulnerable pastoralists in Kenya. KLIP uses an algorithm that combines survey data on livestock mortality with EO data on vegetation cover to develop an index that predicts livestock mortality. During drought conditions and forage scarcity, the index predicts livestock loss. If this prediction is above a certain level of loss, it triggers an insurance pay-out.

  • InsSAT

    Agriculture and Food Security, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography

    The main objective of the InsSAT service was to offer a fully functional and operational system of automatic processing and analysis of satellite, meteorological and if necessary also aerial data, focused on providing tools for assessment and settlement of insurance claims in the agricultural sector.

  • National Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning Bulletin

    Agriculture and Food Security, Office of the Prime Minister Uganda

    U-NIEWS monthly bulletin can be used to understand the conditions of crops and pasture, food insecurity, weather/climate forecast and to determine the anticipated disasters which may occur in the days to come while providing the disaster and humanitarian response status update based on monthly statistics. The information in this bulletin can be used as baseline information for planning processes while detail information may required for respective locations through relevant local and technical agencies for local level planning.

  • Monitoring Rice Paddy and Flood in the Lower Mekong Basin

    Agriculture and Food Security, HCMC Space Technology Application Center

    This proposal aims to establish cloud computing services to host, process and analyse big Earth observation (EO) data and geospatial information for our projects focused on a) monitoring rice paddy (agriculture) and b) flood (disaster and water resources management).

  • NASA SERVIR – Regional Drought Monitoring and Outlook System

    Agriculture and Food Security, ICIMOD/SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya

    The system includes a set of drought indices designed for use at different stages of agricultural operation through consultation and user needs. The system produces seasonal outlook on the indicators of precipitation, soil moisture, evapotranspiration and temperature to evaluate potential drought hazards.

  • GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring Flagship Initiative

    Agriculture and Food Security, GEOGLAM

    The Ministry of Agroindustry in Argentina relied on both EO and the capacity of the GEOGLAM network to produce a precise and robust mapping of areas impacted by a major drought in 2018.

  • GEORICE

    Agriculture and Food Security, GEOGLAM

    The project focuses on making full use of Sentinel-1 observations for operational rice mapping products demonstrated over the Mekong river delta.

  • Kenya Crop Monitor

    Agriculture and Food Security, Kenya Ministry of Agriculture

    Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, Livestock and Fisheries has issued the country’s first national crop monitor, with support from NASA SERVIR, Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), and the Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM). Information on crop conditions from across Kenya was made publically available in the first edition of the crop monitor in May 2018.

  • NASA SERVIR – Frost Monitoring and Forecasting Service

    Agriculture and Food Security, RCMRD/NASA SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa

    The Frost Monitoring and Forecasting service provides timely information on the current and future probability of a frost occurrence to help farmers in the Kenyan highlands prepare and reduce crop losses.

  • SERVIR Nepal

    Agriculture and Food Security, NASA

    In Nepal, the NASA SERVIR programme developed maps to highlight district-level crop anomalies based on a NDVI to inform the government’s service delivery to food-insecure districts.

  • GIACIS – Geodata for Innovative Agricultural Credit Insurance Schemes

    Agriculture and Food Security, ITC University of Twente

    The purpose of the Public-Private Partnership is to expand financial service delivery to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia with a geodata-driven risk-mitigation (insurance) product that offers a basic safety net to protect them against weather related perils. In partnership with local financial institutions, the insurance product will be bundled with credit to purchase agricultural inputs. In combination with weather prediction services, the insured credit package will locally be made available through ICT infrastructure services (branchless banking). The project consortium will align to the rural finance strategy (RFS program) as managed by ATA. This allows for a systematic synergetic approach to provide financial inclusion, promote investment for agriculture, broker sustainable production methods and provide risk transfer tools. The followed system approach creates a suitable legal, institutional and organizational framework.

  • Harvesting Farmer Network

    Agriculture and Food Security, Harvesting Inc

    Harvesting provides an Agri-Lending suite which enables financial service providers to use their own historical data alongside alternative inputs such as satellite data, and thus make the lending life cycle more efficient. Harvesting’s goal is to help drive financial inclusion by providing actionable data to financial institutions to enable provision of loans.

  • Apollo Agriculture

    Agriculture and Food Security, Apollo Agriculture

    Apollo Agriculture helps small-scale farmers maximise their profits in Kenya by bundling credit for farm inputs with insurance. Apollo Agriculture uses machine learning, EO, and mobile phones to deliver credit, farm products, and customised advice to farmers efficiently and at scale.

  • FarmDrive

    Agriculture and Food Security, FarmDrive

    FarmDrive explores the use of satellite imagery to augment its data collection and analytics for evaluating loans to smallholder farmers in Kenya.

  • Geodata Based Information Services for smallholder farmers in Bangladesh

    Agriculture and Food Security, Netherlands Space Office (NSO)

    GEOBIS uses spatial and other geodata for providing effective, time and location specific advisory services to smallholder farmers in Bangladesh. It is aimed at improving agricultural productivity and farmer income, upgrading agricultural zoning and at improving the management of weather related emergencies.

  • GEOPOTATO – Geodata to control potato late blight in Bangladesh

    Agriculture and Food Security, Netherlands Space Office (NSO)

    The G4AW supported project, GEOPOTATO, aims to sustainably improve resource-use efficiency in potato production in Bangladesh by providing farmer with an EO-derived decision-support service to control the late blight fungal disease. The alert service is e provided on subscription to farmers, through SMS or voicemail.

  • NASA SERVIR – Locust Monitoring

    Agriculture and Food Security, AGRHYMET/SERVIR-WA

    The Locust Monitoring service, P-Locust, is a geospatial model for the timely location of desert locust development and gregarization risk zones in the western region of Africa.

  • Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI)

    Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) is an innovative crop pest and disease risk forecasting product designed for smallholders and commercial producers in developing countries. Bringing together a broad range of stakeholders, including plant protection authorities, space experts, private sector companies, and the farmers themselves, PRISE uses state-of-the-art crop and pest modelling techniques to provide users with advanced warning of a damaging outbreak and appropriate advice to mitigate crop losses.

  • Pest and Disease Surveillance via High-Resolution Satellites

    Agriculture and Food Security, Pennsylvania State University

    David Hughes of Pennsylvania State University in the U.S. is leveraging real-time, high-resolution satellite imagery of smallholder farms along with artificial intelligence to automatically detect crop pests and diseases in Africa.

  • NASA SERVIR – Ecological Modeling Service

    Agriculture and Food Security, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD)/SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa

    This service provides data on mapping, monitoring and assessing invasive species to local governments.

  • NASA SERVIR – Enhancing Drought Resilience and Crop Yield Security

    Agriculture and Food Security, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)/SERVIR Mekong

    The Enhancing Drought Resilience and Crop Yield Security for the Lower Mekong Service provides drought nowcasts and forecasts at the regional level in the Lower Mekong Region and provincial level in Vietnam using hydrological and crop model information through the Regional Hydrologic Extremes Assessment System (RHEAS), a state-of-the-art water resources nowcast and forecast framework.

  • CropWatch Cloud

    Agriculture and Food Security, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI)

    CropWatch Cloud is a cloud-based crop monitoring platform providing an agroclimatic, agronomic information service, with a unique solution for developing countries aspiring to conduct their own crop monitoring, in order to achieve food security.

  • EO4SD – Sustainable land management and food security

    Agriculture and Food Security, eLeaf

    In Ethiopia, EO4SD provided satellite-based data and capacity training to the teams of the World Bank’s Sustainable land management project – Phase II, IFAD’s Participatory Small-scale Irrigation Development Programme – Phase II, and UNDP-implemented Integrated Landscape Management to Enhance Food Security and Ecosystem Resilience child projects.

  • Crop Yield Decision Support in Ghana

    Agriculture and Food Security, Assimila Ltd

    This project provides information on maize yields in Ghana, such as current yields to help plan harvesting, transport and processing, future yields to inform markets and enhance long term food security and past yields to help farmers benchmark and improve productivity. The monitoring and forecasting system is based on the integration of physical crop models, meteorological data and Earth observation satellite imagery.__Information is provided to farmers, supply chain actors, governments and international organisations.

  • Downscaling Regional Crop Yields to Local Scale Using Remote Sensing

    Agriculture and Food Security, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

    A simple method for disaggregation of district-level production statistics over crop pixels by using a remote sensing approach.

  • Forecasting Agricultural output using Space, Agro-meteorology and Land based observations (FASAL)

    Agriculture and Food Security, India Ministry of Agriculture

    In India, the Ministry of Agriculture developed Forecasting Agricultural Output using Space Agro- meteorology and Land-based Observations (FASAL).

  • iSDAsoil

    Agriculture and Food Security, iSDA Africa

    They help smallholder farmers across Africa increase their productivity using advanced technologies.

  • Stanford researchers measure African farm yields using high-resolution satellites

    Agriculture and Food Security, Stanford

    Stanford researchers have developed a new way to estimate crop yields from space, using high-resolution photos snapped by a new wave of compact satellites.

  • Earth Observations For Field Level Agricultural Resource Mapping (EO-FARM)

    Agriculture and Food Security, University of Maryland

    The EO-FARM project is a collaboration with Swiss Re Foundation, using Earth observations data to enhance food security and resilience in small-holder dominated regions by revolutionizing fundamental datasets needed for agricultural monitoring and enhancing government Crop Insurance programs.

  • Innovative Data Collection Methods for Agricultural and Rural Statistics

    Agriculture and Food Security, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

    Alternative methods such as advances in satellite based technology are explored in this Technical Assistance to help countries adopt better approaches in estimating rice crop area and production, and consequently develop better evidence-based policy making.

  • Land Cover® plus Crops (Remote Sensing Applications Consultants)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Remote Sensing Applications Consultants (RSAC)

    http://www.ceh.ac.uk/crops2015 Overview Land Cover plus Crops is a solution developed by Remote Sensing Applications Consultants (RSAC) to provide detailed annually updated crop maps of Great Britain. It provides parcel-level information derived from Earth observation (EO) data for every field in the country. It is now being applied in developing countries to offer improved understanding of […]

  • Land Resource Evaluation Service for Agricultural Activity and Production (Booker Tate)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Booker Tate

    http://www.booker-tate.co.uk Overview High resolution Earth observation (EO) imagery and digital surface models are used to provide rapid assessment of land resources for defining Areas of Interest (AOI) for more specific ground truthing via detailed topographical, soil and geotechnical surveys to assess land agriculture potential. This gives a rapid assessment of land potential for agriculture by […]

  • EO4Cultivar/Agri-track (Environment Systems) (IPP funded)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Environment Systems

    http://www.envsys.co.uk/agriculture Overview Agri-track enables agri-businesses to receive up-to- date crop monitoring and forecasting information in formats they are familiar with (data, alerts, maps) that are compatible with their own corporate or crop management systems, enabling them to make near-real time decisions based on crop intelligence that scales from the field to countrywide. Crop- specific monitoring […]

  • Agriculture Simulations (Sensonomic)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Sensonomic

    http://www.sensonomic.com Overview Agriculture Simulations makes use of Earth observation (EO) data to solve challenges for agricultural planning, harvesting, logistics and long-term food systems resilience in a changing climate. It gives dynamic insight into complex human and natural systems by combining computational simulations and EO data. It enables both short-term operational and long-term strategic decision-making by […]

  • WeatherSafe Platform (WeatherSafe)

    Agriculture and Food Security, WeatherSafe

    www.weathersafe.co.uk Overview The WeatherSafe platform provides field specific advice for coffee farmers. This is generated from satellite Earth observation (EO) data and bespoke weather forecasts, offering early warnings for pest and disease, supporting agronomist and farmer decisions making, helping farmers make faster, better choices which directly impact both the quality and quantity of coffee produced. […]

  • Pest Prediction (CABI)

    Agriculture and Food Security, CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International)

    www.cabi.org Overview Pest Prediction aims to produce cutting edge research to provide pest and disease monitoring and forecast information, integrating multiple sources of data, Earth observation (EO), meteorological and vertical looking radar, to support decision making in the sustainable management of insect pests and diseases. Predictive models on wheat rust severity that are passed to […]

  • Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) (CABI) (IPP funded)

    Agriculture and Food Security, CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International)

    www.cabi.org Overview Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) is an innovative crop pest and disease risk forecasting product designed for smallholders and commercial producers in developing countries. Bringing together a broad range of stakeholders, including plant protection authorities, space experts, private sector companies, and the farmers themselves, PRISE uses state-of-the-art crop and pest modelling techniques to […]

  • Advanced Coffee Crop Optimisation for Rural Development (ACCORD) (Earth-i) (IPP funded)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Earth-i

    www.earthi.space Overview Advanced Coffee Crop Optimisation for Rural Development (ACCORD) provides proactive, targeted crop management information to improve the livelihoods and incomes of smallholder coffee farmers in Rwanda and Kenya. The crop management advice, which is delivered via a mobile app, is derived from satellite Earth observation (EO) and advanced micro-climate information. The information helps […]

  • Grape Production Climate Resilience (Rothamsted Research)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Rothamsted Research

    www.agritechinchina.org Overview Making grape production more resilient to weather and climate using Earth observation (EO) and smart sensors. Solution benefits Exploits satellite EO data and smart sensor technology (for soil, weather, crop conditions) and GIS modelling to: reduce water inputs, and improve frost and disease management identify suitable regions for new vineyard development improve sustainability […]

  • Ecological Production Management Information System (EcoProMIS) (Agricompas) (IPP funded)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Agricompas

    www.agricompas.com Overview The EcoProMIS platform is developed per crop and country to address the economical, technical and environmental challenges faced by a wide range of agricultural stakeholders. By combining satellite Earth observation (EO) with comprehensive crop production data we create “Knowledge for Free” for growers and partners, and “Decisions for a Fee” for customers. Solution […]

  • Earth Observation for Flood and Drought Resilience (Airbus Defence and Space) (IPP funded)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Airbus Defence and Space

    www.intelligence-airbusds.com/agriculture Overview Earth Observation for Flood and Drought Resilience focuses on alleviating poverty for farmers that currently have little or no access to insurance by demonstrating the efficacy of Earth observation (EO) data for supporting the micro-insurance market. It also focuses on building social and economic resilience to drought and flood by providing economic impact […]

  • Drought and Flood Mitigation System (DFMS) (RHEA) (IPP funded)

    Agriculture and Food Security, RHEA

    www.dfms.co.uk Overview The Drought and Flood Mitigation Service (DFMS) provides robust meteorological, hydrological, and other Earth observation (EO) information as observations, forecasts, and data archives. Products for monitoring, near and long-term planning, and historical analysis are provided through an on-line portal to users in the government, commercial agriculture, and development sectors. Focussed on reducing the […]

  • Crop Observation, Management & Production Analysis Services System (COMPASS) (Rezatec) (IPP funded)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Rezatec

    www.rezatec.com/resources/projects/mexican-compass/ Overview The Crop Observation, Management and Production Analysis Services System (COMPASS) uses satellite Earth observation (EO) data to help smallholder farmers manage their sugar cane and wheat agriculture. It helps optimise crop productivity by identifying factors that cause the yield gap between crop potential and actual field performance. It also provides agronomic support to […]

  • SIBELIUs (eOsphere) (IPP funded)

    Agriculture and Food Security, eOsphere

    www.eosphere.co.uk Overview Improved severe-weather resilience for herding communities using satellite Earth observation (EO). The solution provides improved capacity for distributing new and upgraded environmental information products. Solution provides information regarding pasture, snow and drought, including absolute regional averages, anomalies and trends, to stakeholders supporting herding communities including the insurance sector, government agencies coordinating livestock and […]

  • Satellite Data Services: Near Real Time Imagery (Environment Systems)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Environment Systems

    https://data.envsys.co.uk Overview Satellite Data Services is a cloud-based service delivering access to near-real time analysis-ready satellite imagery and derived products from the Sentinel-1 and 2 satellites. We handle pre- processing and associated costs, so you do not have to. Low cost monthly or annual subscriptions give users access to analysis ready satellite data under an […]

  • Ecometrica Platform (Ecometrica) (IPP funded as Forests 2020 project)

    Agriculture and Food Security, Ecometrica

    Overview The Ecometrica Platform brings together Earth observation (EO) ‘big data’ and turns it into strategic, geo-analytical insights for use by businesses and governments worldwide. An easy to use web interface enables non-experts to easily interact with and rapidly analyse large, complex environmental datasets – from forest protection to disaster response, sustainability metrics to full […]