Available Products
GDA provides current and projected crop commodity information at sub-national, national, and global levels in a timely, reliable, accurate, useful, and cost-effective manner. GDA specializes in operational assessments and delivery of crop acreage, health, status and change over time, and on forecasts of crop conditions, yield, and production at sub-national levels.
GDA offers agricultural intelligence data products for all major regions across the globe for all major commodity crops. The data is derived from sophisticated analysis of domestic and international crops with satellite imagery.
GDA data supports critical, time sensitive decision making about global commodity crops and enhances the ability of agro-businesses and commodity traders to rapidly respond to and capitalize on emerging market opportunities both nationally and globally.
GDA crop products are differentiated from other crop data and informational products in that:
- GDA products are based on direct measurements of ground conditions on every monitored point on the globe and not on anecdotal evidence or random sampling schemes or indirect assessments
- GDA products are supported by both ancillary data (e.g., crop calendars, agricultural land maps, etc.) and a rich historical dataset on crop conditions and their established relation to satellite-observed conditions. These data and relations are spatial, co-located relations and not extrapolated from one area to the next. These are direct comparisons and relations of apples to apples!
- GDA products are more detailed spatially and temporally than other data on the market and they are more globally complete.
- GDA products offer a more complete assessment in one package and with one standardized, documented methodology. GDA products include both area and yield assessments making near-real time production forecasts a reality.
GDA products can be used to enhance economic opportunities for agricultural producers and commodity traders. They can aid in the provision of accurate and timely information on global crop production at a country or regional level, thereby helping producers make better marketing decisions. The products can allow for, among other things, the provision of early warning of unusual crop conditions or changes in the production outlook of a country or region, which, in turn, can assist the private marketplace in price determination and adjustment. GDA data products are of particular use for the commodity exchanges, U.S. Agribusiness, and U.S. Government agencies. Other commercial applications include land cover re-mapping activities, forest and agricultural monitoring and inventory, and assessments of agricultural/farmer compliance with environmental standards.