Summary
The project objective is to develop robust technical approaches to demonstrate and validate the EO and other sensor-based monitoring applicability to support the European Commission’s New Common Agricultural Policy – NewCAP with special emphasis on the eco-schemes. The project will develop monitoring capabilities of Crop rotation, Fallow land, Extensive use of permanent grassland, Winter soil cover and catch crops, and Managing crop water demand to support both farmers (local level) and national paying agencies (country/regional level). Several innovative datasets and methods will be used and applied in the project such as the utilization of the IoT monitoring and geotagged photos which might improve the availability of reference data sets needed for method development and validation.
