Achieving global food security has been high on the political agenda for years. It was included in the first of eight UN Millennium Development Goals “to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger” and it is now also included in the second of 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, aiming to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture” by 2030.
According to an FAO report, food production will need to increase with 70% to achieve this goal. Apart from merely looking to increase agricultural production, the focus should also be on reducing environmental impacts, impacts of climate change, spikes in food prices, and production cost. In other words, sustainable agriculture will be key.
This requires global, independent, timely and qualitative information and monitoring. With a variety of services in agricultural monitoring, VITO Remote Sensing supports both public and private organizations to take informed decisions.
- Multi-scale approaches integrate data and observations from various platforms
- Concensus of evidence approaches, built on the information coming from different independent sources
- Web-based interface to access, manipulate and share your data
- From ready-made services to tailor-made solutions
Applications in agriculture
Technology and Data Products & Services Used
- Remote sensing for digital signal and image processing
- EO Data made easily accessible
- The image processing chain
- Continuously improving image quality
With a wide set of applications and (web)services, we make sure remote sensing data are delivered as valuable, useful information in exactly the way you need them.
Image analysis, image quality, web services.....
Every day, VITO Remote Sensing processes a wide range of satellite images, ranging from low to very high resolution optical missions, all with their own specifications.
This mission continues the SPOT-VEGETATION mission with improved resolution.
Remote sensing generates enormous amounts of data. However, further image processing is needed to unlock the insights within.
With tailor-made algorithms, workflows and hosting services, VITO provides the answer to your specific information needs.
When you rely on remote sensing information for high level decisions, you want to leave as little room for error as possible. That’s why accurate and precise data is extremely important in deriving the correct information.
