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Quantitative information
on agriculture and water use
Maurits Voogt
Chief Competence Center
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Introduction
Technology
Regional scale information
Field scale data
Applications
INTRODUCTION
Introduction
eLEAF
• Since 2000
• Wageningen based
• Global experience
• Agricultural water management
• Crop monitoring
• PiMapping®
Experience on all continents
What is PiMapping® ?
Pixel Intelligence Mapping
PiMapping® technology is a toolbox of algorithms:
• Based on satellite imagery and meteo data
• Resulting in quantative data in mm, kg, °C, etc
• Information on Water, Vegetation & Climate
Detailed
quantitative
data
such as
Biomass Production
[kg/ha]
eLEAF’s data components
Data Components
WATER
Actual Evapotranspiration (E, T, interception),
precipitation, top soil moisture, water stress, storage
change reservoirs, storage change aquifers, water
productivity, water accounting, irrigation performance
VEGETATION Actual biomass production, Land cover, Fractional
vegetation cover, Leaf Area Index LAI, fPAR, crop
coefficient, crop yield, CO2 flux, sowing date, harvest date,
physical land degradation, anthropogenic land degradation
CLIMATE
Surface temperature, air temperature, air humidity, wind
speed, cloud cover, solar radiation, sensible heat flux (H),
latent heat flux (LE)
TECHNOLOGY
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Energy balance
• SEBAL: Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land
• Successor: ETLook
SEBAL
Vegetation index
albedo, temperature, cloud cover
Weather station data
Actual water use
B io 
d t
production and yield
 A P A R  t   tBiomass
  Rn  G   c p
ET 
es  ea 
 r 
    1  s 24 
ra 
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ra
REGIONAL INFORMATION
GSCP Yemen
• Groundwater and Soil Conservation Project
• Objective: quantify ground water abstraction
Actual water use
How much water is
used in 2006?
Actual water use
Overconsumption Yemen
• Average: 139 mm/year
• Locally up to 1000 mm/year
FIELD SCALE DATA
FieldLook.com
FieldLook.com
Weekly updates:
• Growth
• Moisture
• Minerals
• Returns
Available in:
• Spain, Canada, Russia,
Ukraine, South Africa,
Netherlands, Belgium
In field variability
25 March
23 July
25 May
12 Aug
4 Sept
7 July
8 Sept
Just NDVI...?
• Smooth NDVI curve
• Biomass production
varies from week to
week [kg/ha/wk]
• Actual transpiration
[mm/wk]
• Transpiration deficit
[mm/wk]
Satellite imagery
eLEAF requires satellite imagery on:
• High resolution
• Large areas
• Daily updates
APPLICATIONS
Applications
eLEAF’s data components can be used:
• For monitoring
• To advice
• In automated applications
Monitor: water productivity
2004-5
Spatial distribution of good
and bad practices.
Learn from each other and
improve to the same level.
2005-6
0.015
frequency
2004-5
0.010
0.005
0.000
0
150
300
450
600
liters water needed to produce 1 liter of wine
750
Advice: haulm killing
Van Es Rosetta:
• Haulm killing is planned on September 5
• Heterogeneous crops on September 4
• Dosing of chemicals should vary as well
Applications: Irrigation planner
• PiMapping® technology
measures and forecasts
soil moisture
• Irrigation planner
indicates when irrigation
is required
Value Adding Partners
eLEAF is building a global network
of Value Adding Partners
• What can you do with quantative data?
Thank you for your attention
[email protected]
Chief Competence Center