Development of a Monitoring and Forecasting System of Crop and Pasture Production for Managing Climate Risks
- Lead PI: Dr. Walter E. Baethgen
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Unit Affiliation: International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)
- September 2010 - September 2013
- Inactive
- South America ; Uruguay
- Project Type: Research
DESCRIPTION: IRI will develop a literature review on the use of remote sensing; create a MODIS image bank; collect field data to work with MODIS; collect soil and crop information for the calibration of DSSAT models for corn and soybeans; and work on estimates for the Water Requirement Satisfaction Index of maize. Calibrate and validate the Century model for simulating pasture growth and production in different agro-ecological zones, claibrate and test crop simulation models and explore remote sensing methods
OUTCOMES: Calibrated Hyperion imaging to identify corn and soybean crops with over 80% accuracy. Most other results are listed in Spanish.