Crop Condition Monitoring, Assessment, and Forecast
Available Crop Condition Monitoring Products
- Crop Condition eReports (Current Scheduled Delivery: Monthly, throughout the growing season. Ad hoc delivery requests: up to 24 – 72 hour turn around)
- Crop Condition GIS maps (Current Scheduled Delivery: Monthly, throughout the growing season. Ad hoc delivery requests: up to 24 – 72 hour turn around)
- On-line Interactive Crop Condition Service
GDA provides detailed analysis of crop conditions during the current growing season and a comparison of the current season to previous years at sub-national and national levels. Uniquely, GDA analysis includes prediction of crop conditions for the remaining part of the growing season. GDA focuses on operational delivery of crop intelligence to improve the timeliness and accuracy of current and projected crop commodity information.
GDA relies on daily historical and current time series satellite imagery for direct observation and analysis of crop status/conditions. To assess and forecast crop conditions, GDA monitors all domestic and international areas of commodity crops.
MODIS NDVI Imagery (South Africa) over Time (Images courtesy NASA/LPDAAC)
MODIS NDVI Imagery Aggregated into NDVI Time-Series data
The statistics of crop conditions are presented in tabular, graphic, and map forms and relate current season to the previous year, average/typical season, and other historical seasons. Absolute and relative (% difference from previous year and historical average) values as well as historical trend and 5-year average values are provided. Furthermore, crop maps can be requested in a GIS format.
Sample GIS Maps showing Start of Season parameter both as date values and percentage increase/decrease from previous year
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