Publication Testing of satellite-based yield estimation for agricultural statistics - The SatAgrarStat project

Since its start, the European Copernicus earth observation programme with its Sentinel satellites has ensured the continuous monitoring of the Earth’s surface with an unprecedented level of temporal, spatial and technical quality. The remote sensing data offer information of greater spatial detail, such as information on the current state of agricultural crops. As part of the SatAgrarStat pilot project (satellite-based yield estimation for agricultural statistics), the Federal Statistical Office, the statistical offices of four Länder and the Julius Kühn Institute examined whether the linking of plant growth models with vegetation parameters deduced from remote sensing could open up new avenues to estimate yield potentials.

Authors: Jasmin Arnold, Patric Brandt, Heike Gerighausen

Article published in "WISTA – Scientific Journal", 6-2021