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Building an operational system for crop monitoring and yield forecasting in Morocco
- Source :
- Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics: Information for Sustainable Agriculture, 12-16 August 2013, Fairfax, VA, USA
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Morocco has an agricultural production system for cereals which is dominated by rainfed, low yielding cereal production which is highly vulnerable to fluctuations in rainfall. Crop yield forecasting systems could play a significant role to reduce the vulnerability of the Moroccan agriculture to weather risks in the framework of a food security strategy. This paper describes the efforts that were carried out for adapting the European Crop Growth Monitoring System to Moroccan conditions for crop monitoring and regional yield forecasting. Results demonstrate that the correlations between CGMS output and regional reported yields can be strongly improved by relatively simple changes to the parameterization of the crop model and a different strategy for the initialization of the soil water balance.
- Subjects :
- Earth Observation and Environmental Informatics
Food security
business.industry
Agroforestry
Crop yield
Agricultural engineering
Remote sensing
Operational system
Morocco
Risk analysis (business)
Agriculture
Aardobservatie en omgevingsinformatica
Environmental science
Production (economics)
Agricultural productivity
Crop model
business
Yield forecasting
Productivity
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBN :
- 978-1-4799-0868-4
- ISBNs :
- 9781479908684
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics: Information for Sustainable Agriculture, 12-16 August 2013, Fairfax, VA, USA
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....37a8333c3c4d2fc828a3727effc8b83f