After the 2014/2015 design and preliminary implementation phase, the different functionalities of the ERMES services were further operationalized and tested during the 2016 European rice growing season exploiting the full suite of ERMES products and services.
This allowed to consistently monitor the European Rice growing season at different scales: from regional (e.g., rice districts) to local (e.g., farms and single rice parcels). ERMES services thus provided a huge amount of information to end-users and stakeholders, which could be visualized through the ERMES geoportals. The information provided allowed to better monitor rice growth, and was used for advanced applications, such as the production of regular rice blast risk bulletins and the implementation of Variable Rate Technology fertilizations. Highlights on some of the more interesting products/applications realized is provided in the “Results and Achievements” section of the ERMES Website. We link here the main 2016 news for ease of use:
ERMES Products Support Variable Rate Fertilisation: Successful Real-world Experiment in Greece
Cooperation of ERMES and RICEGUARD FP7 Projects for Estimating Rice Blast Infection Risk Accurately
Final versions of ERMES geoportal and AgriNotebook deployed
Rice mapping in Europe: 2016 ERMES results
Derivation of time series of LAI maps from Sentinel-2A
Detection of diseases in paddy rice fields with Sentinel-2
Early season field monitoring with VHR SAR data to highlight problems in germination
Monitoring the 2016 rice phenonological cycle in Europe
Sentinel-1A data for Land Cover mapping of Gambia