Optical and radar remote sensing applied to agricultural areas in europe

2008

The global population growth, as well as the social and economic importance that the agricultural sector has in many regions of the world, makes it very important to develop methods to monitor the status of crops, to improve their management, as well as to be able to make early estimates of the agricultural production. One of the main causes of uncertainty in the production of crops is due to the weather, for example, in arid and semiarid regions of the world, periods of drought can generate big losses in agricultural production, which may result in famine. Thus, FAO, during their summit in June 2008, stressed the need to increase agricultural production as a measure to strengthen food secu…