Monitoring crop phenology using a smartphone based near-surface remote sensing approach

Smallholder farmers play a critical role in supporting food security in developing countries. Monitoring crop phenology and disturbances to crop growth is critical in strengthening farmers’ ability to manage production risks. This study assesses the feasibility of using crowdsourced near-surface rem...

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Autores principales: Hufkens, Koen, Melaas, Eli K., Mann, Michael L., Foster, Timothy, Ceballos, Francisco, Robles, Miguel, Kramer, Berber
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145446
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author Hufkens, Koen
Melaas, Eli K.
Mann, Michael L.
Foster, Timothy
Ceballos, Francisco
Robles, Miguel
Kramer, Berber
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Foster, Timothy
Hufkens, Koen
Kramer, Berber
Mann, Michael L.
Melaas, Eli K.
Robles, Miguel
author_facet Hufkens, Koen
Melaas, Eli K.
Mann, Michael L.
Foster, Timothy
Ceballos, Francisco
Robles, Miguel
Kramer, Berber
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description Smallholder farmers play a critical role in supporting food security in developing countries. Monitoring crop phenology and disturbances to crop growth is critical in strengthening farmers’ ability to manage production risks. This study assesses the feasibility of using crowdsourced near-surface remote sensing imagery to monitor winter wheat phenology and identify damage events in northwest India. In particular, we demonstrate how streams of pictures of individual smallholder fields, taken using inexpensive smartphones, can be used to quantify important phenological stages in agricultural crops, specifically the wheat heading phase and how it can be used to detect lodging events, a major cause of crop damage globally. Near-surface remote sensing offers granular visual field data, providing detailed information on the timing of key developmental phases of winter wheat and crop growth disturbances that are not registered by common satellite remote sensing vegetation indices or national crop cut surveys. This illustrates the potential of near-surface remote sensing as a scalable platform for collecting high-resolution plot-specific data that can be used in supporting crop modeling, extension and insurance schemes to increase resilience to production risk and enhance food security in smallholder agricultural systems.
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spelling CGSpace1454462025-12-08T10:11:39Z Monitoring crop phenology using a smartphone based near-surface remote sensing approach Hufkens, Koen Melaas, Eli K. Mann, Michael L. Foster, Timothy Ceballos, Francisco Robles, Miguel Kramer, Berber insurance lodging phenology remote sensing winter wheat smallholders agricultural productivity crop modelling Smallholder farmers play a critical role in supporting food security in developing countries. Monitoring crop phenology and disturbances to crop growth is critical in strengthening farmers’ ability to manage production risks. This study assesses the feasibility of using crowdsourced near-surface remote sensing imagery to monitor winter wheat phenology and identify damage events in northwest India. In particular, we demonstrate how streams of pictures of individual smallholder fields, taken using inexpensive smartphones, can be used to quantify important phenological stages in agricultural crops, specifically the wheat heading phase and how it can be used to detect lodging events, a major cause of crop damage globally. Near-surface remote sensing offers granular visual field data, providing detailed information on the timing of key developmental phases of winter wheat and crop growth disturbances that are not registered by common satellite remote sensing vegetation indices or national crop cut surveys. This illustrates the potential of near-surface remote sensing as a scalable platform for collecting high-resolution plot-specific data that can be used in supporting crop modeling, extension and insurance schemes to increase resilience to production risk and enhance food security in smallholder agricultural systems. 2019-02-15 2024-06-21T09:04:31Z 2024-06-21T09:04:31Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145446 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133534 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab5ebb https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13050924 https://doi.org/10.23846/TW13FE11 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134751 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134917 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134941 Open Access Elsevier Hufkens, Koen; Melaas, Eli K.; Mann, Michael L.; Foster, Timothy; Ceballos, Francisco; Robles, Miguel; and Kramer, Berber. 2019. Monitoring crop phenology using a smartphone based near-surface remote sensing approach. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 265(February 2019): 327-337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.11.002
spellingShingle insurance
lodging
phenology
remote sensing
winter wheat
smallholders
agricultural productivity
crop modelling
Hufkens, Koen
Melaas, Eli K.
Mann, Michael L.
Foster, Timothy
Ceballos, Francisco
Robles, Miguel
Kramer, Berber
Monitoring crop phenology using a smartphone based near-surface remote sensing approach
title Monitoring crop phenology using a smartphone based near-surface remote sensing approach
title_full Monitoring crop phenology using a smartphone based near-surface remote sensing approach
title_fullStr Monitoring crop phenology using a smartphone based near-surface remote sensing approach
title_full_unstemmed Monitoring crop phenology using a smartphone based near-surface remote sensing approach
title_short Monitoring crop phenology using a smartphone based near-surface remote sensing approach
title_sort monitoring crop phenology using a smartphone based near surface remote sensing approach
topic insurance
lodging
phenology
remote sensing
winter wheat
smallholders
agricultural productivity
crop modelling
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145446
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