SATFARM Services aims to derive new remote sensing indicators of climate-smart agricultural practices that provide enhanced resilience in the face of weather extremes resulting of climate change
The project will combine a previously unexplored extensive time-series field data set containing a range of in-situ reported agricultural practices with remotely sensed time-series measurements obtained from several sensors.
The resulting indicators will be visualized on an open-access online web-portal for farmers, extension services and decision makers. These enhanced indicators will permit detection, tracking and faster adoption of resilience-enhancing agricultural practices in Lower Austria, although the project envisions a future where the indicators are employed at European level. IIASA coordinates the project and provides data analysis.
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15 February 2023
From farm to space and back: adapting Austrian agriculture to climate change
Juan Carlos Laso Bayas and colleagues reflect on the outcomes of the SATFARM Services project, which set out to create models that demonstrate the potential of satellite data to track climate-smart agricultural practices and visualize indicators to track their success in a prototype web platform for Austrian farmers.