Registration is now open for final IGAD Coffee Break Webinar on 27 October 2021 from 13:00 to 13:30 CEST
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The next webinar part of the Research Data Alliance Interest Group for Agricultural Data (IGAD)’s new Coffee Break initiative will take place on 27 October 2021 from 13:00 to 13:30 CEST. The webinar, titled Analysis of time series of Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 data – the new quality of information for Agriculture will feature Karel Charvat, from Plan4all.
Satellite Crop Detection technologies are focused on detection of different types of crops on the field in the early stage before harvesting. Their classification is one of the key themes of the common agricultural policy within the initiatives of the European Commission. Currently, data obtained from Remote Sensing (RS) are used to solve tasks related to the identification of the type of agricultural crops and modern technologies in the issue of post processing this kind of data sources.
During this webinar, Karel Charvat will discuss the importance of the common classification methods for crops including:
- Supervised classification, which is the technique most often used for the quantitative analysis of remote sensing image data. At its core is the concept of segmenting the spectral domain into regions that can be associated with the ground cover classes of interest to a particular application. In supervised classification the user or image analyst “supervises” the pixel classification process. The user specifies the various pixel values or spectral signatures that should be associated with each class.
- Image segmentation, which is defining object fields directly, can be considered as a more advanced method. Till now the method is working with Sentinel 2 and most of the solutions are working with data from one period.
Registration is now open. Interested participants can register for the webinar here. |
Speaker
Karel Charvat graduated in theoretical cybernetics. He is a member of International Society for Precision Agriculture, Research Data Alliance, vice chair of Club of Ossiach, CAGI, and CSITA. From 2005 to 2007, he served as President of the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture Food and Environment (EFITA). Currently, Karel is chair of OGC Agriculture DWG and is a Plan4all representative in GEO. He also works on implementation on the national INSPIRE Geoportal. Karel is also active in the Plan4all association. He has long time experience in ICT for Environment, transport, Agriculture and Precision Farming. Even more, he is one of the promoters of Open and Big Data in Agriculture in Europe.
More about the IGAD Coffee Break
The new IGAD Coffee Break webinar series, which features eight different webinars and presenters running from 16 June to 27 October 2021. The innovative initiative will help to create an ongoing dialogue and encourage the exchange of experiences and ideas on agricultural research and innovation within the IGAD community and beyond. To watch past Coffee Break webinars in full visit the RDA/IGAD YouTube channel here.
