This document discusses the Copernicus Programme and use of Sentinel satellite data for agriculture and forestry. It provides an overview of the Copernicus programme, including its three components: space, in-situ, and services. It describes the five Sentinel satellite missions and their characteristics. The document outlines how Sentinel data can be used for applications like crop monitoring, soil moisture mapping, and detection of clearcuts. It highlights the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service and available agriculture products. In conclusion, it discusses benefits of the open data policy and upcoming Copernicus user events.

1. Copernicus Programme
and Sentinel Data for
Agriculture and
Forestry
GI2015
Dresden, 15. 9. 2015
Lenka Hladíková
CENIA, Czech Environmental Information Agency
Lenka
Hladíková
CENIA
Department of
Geoinformatics
and Remote
Sensing

2. 1) Agriculture and forestry from satellite images
2) The Copernicus programme - an overview
3) Copernicus for agriculture and forestry
Outline
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3.  getting the information:
• in a short time
• on larger areas
• on a regular basis
• not visible to human eyes
Main benefits of remote sensing
3Source: http://cema-agri.org
 advantages:
• analyse of the current
status or long-term trends
• reduction of field surveys

4.  wide use of the remote sensing data
and techniques:
Utilization of remote sensing data
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meteorology
hydrology
geology
transport
emergency
management
vegetation
monitoring
urban planning
agriculture
Source: EEA
mapping
forestry

5.  wide use of the remote sensing data
and techniques:
Utilization of remote sensing data
5Source: EEA
forestry
meteorology
emergency
management
vegetation
monitoring
mapping
transport
agriculture
hydrology
urban planning
geology

6. What we can identify from the images?
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crop identification and
status
Source: EEA
soil moisture
delineation of the field
boundaries
 modelling of crop
prediction
 input for precision
farming (irrigation,
fertilizers etc.)

7. What we can identify from the images?
7Source: EEA, idnes.cz, www.protectadks.org
identification
of clearcuts
damage after natural
disasters
forest type and structure
or modelling of long-
term trends

8. Possible users
8Source: https://fldpi.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/farmer.jpg
farmers
local level
 farmers
 images with better spatial
resolution
regional / global level
 governments
 control allocation of subsidies
 grassland or forest management
 support for shaping of national
and EU agricultural policies
public sector

9. Practical use on national level - example
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Clear-cuts detection from the Landsat image used for
the national forest inventory.
Source: Forest Management Institute, Czech Republic

10. Introduction of Copernicus
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 the EU Earth Observation and Monitoring
programme, previously known as GMES
 coordinated by the European Commission in close
cooperation with the European Space Agency
 together with the Galileo programme (satellite
navigation) forms the main pillar of the EU space
policy
 open data policy

11. Space component (ESA)
 Sentinel satellites
 Contributing missions
 Ground segment
Copernicus - 3 components
In-situ component (EEA)
 In-situ data for Copernicus services
Services (European Commission)
 Land
 Atmosphere
 Security
 Emergency Management
 Marine
 Climate Change 11

12.  5 Sentinel missions (identical A and B units)
 various data parameters (multispectral or radar
data, different spatial and temporal resolution...)
and possible utilization
Space component
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13. Sentinel satellites
Sentinel 1 Sentinel 2 Sentinel 3 Sentinel 4 Sentinel 5
characteristics
radar
mission
multispectral
high
resolution
mission
4 sensors
(multispectral,
radar,
microwave) of
medium
resolution
multispectral
geostationary
mission for
atmosphere
monitoring
multispectral
polar orbit
mission for
atmosphere
monitoring
spatial
resolution
5 – 40 m 10, 20, 60 m 300 – 500 m 8 km 5 – 15 km
temporal*
resolution
6 days 5 days 27 days 60 min 29 days
launch date
(A/B unit)
April 2014 June 2015
November
2015
2018 2019
February
2016
March 2016 February 2017 2018 2027
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14. https://sentinel.esa.int
information about
S1-S5
access to
satellite images
Sentinel
toolboxes
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15. https://scihub.esa.int
Sentinel images
available after simple
registration
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16. https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/
toolboxes
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Sentinel toolboxes
 visualisation, processing and
analyzing of images
 free download
 opensource

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Copernicus services for agriculture
Copernicus Land Monitoring
Service
 Corine Land Cover
 High Resolution Layers
 Global maps
Corine Land Cover
HRL - tree cover
density, grassland
global maps - LAI
http://land.copernicus.eu

18.  open data policy-> services and satellite images
provided for free for all users
 data and services available on regular basis with
short revisit time
 sustainable data supply
Main benefits of Copernicus
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building of public services upon the
Copernicus data and information
cheaper services built upon satellite data
wider use of the remote sensing data and
techniques

19. Living Planet Symposium + CZ User Forum
 Living Planet Symposium - 9. - 13. May 2016 in Prague
 organized by ESA
 abstract submission deadline: 16. October 2015
 side event: Czech User Forum
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http://lps16.esa.int
http://www.konference-
copernicus.cz/en/content/home

20. Thank you for your
attention!
lenka.hladikova
@cenia.cz