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    Special Interest Group | Agriculture

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    Welcome

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    Agriculture plays a key role in the Earth future, being connected directly or indirectly to more than one of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
    Earth observation plays a well known key aspect in planning and monitoring agricultural practices. Precision farming uses satellite imagery to model and spatialize several aspects related to crop growth, such as plant health, water stress, yield prediction, pest detection, damage from extreme events, just to name a few.
    The agriculture Special Interest Group (SIG) aims to foster research collaboration among institutions and accross specific disciplines that use data from remote sensing to monitor agriculture. This will be done through several activities:
    • collaborating with other societies, such at working groups in the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and other associations that have common interests with this EARSeL SIG;
    • promoting publications in peer reviewed scientific journals, by organizing special issues on specific topics;
    • joining efforts in related activities, like summer schools, public engagement and outreach;
    • organizing/co-organizing workshops and seminars.

    Special Issue EuJRS – Manuscript deadline: 31 December 2026

    Thank you to everyone who joined us in Prague for the 44th EARSeL Symposium and made it such a success!

    See you in Athens in 2026 for the 45th EARSeL Symposium — don’t miss it!

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    Activities

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    During the EARSeL Symposium, a range of activities will take place, including workshops, special sessions organized by partner societies, and dedicated special issues in leading journals.

    ===> SPECIAL ISSUE "Smart Earth Observation for a Sustainable Future"  IN THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING!

    ===> EARSeL Symposium Athens 2026: "4th EARSeL SIG Workshop on Agriculture"

    List of Topics:

    • Support for risk modeling and management in agriculture
    • Evaluation of direct and indirect economic benefits of EO products and services in agriculture
    • EO data integration with other services (e.g. agro-meteo networks, phenological networks, etc…)
    • Mapping yield for crop monitoring and optimization
    • Mitigation of environmental impact in farming activities (e.g. monitoring gas emissions, reduction of impact from treatments, optimization of water usage, etc…)
    • Damage assessment for multiple purposes (insurance, economic loss estimation, etc…)
    • Definition of quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) products specific for agricultural applications
    • Regional/Continental/Global Applications of EO in Agriculture
    • Mapping and monitoring biodiversity in agricultural landscapes
    • Monitoring crop management practices (e.g. land use intensity, growing strategies) in the context of climate change adaptation and mitigation
    • Advantages and pitfalls of deep/machine learning and AI-based approaches
    • Spatial and temporal capability of generalization of EO-based models, wide area mapping / historical land use mapping
    • Supporting Common Agricultural Policies (CAP)
    • Products and Services Officiality in the CAP framework

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    Contacts

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    Enrico Corrado Borgogno Mondino, PhD
    Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences – University of Torino
    Largo Paolo Braccini, 2
    C10095 GRUGLIASCO (TO), Italy

    phone: +39 011 670 55 23
    e-mail: enrico.borgogno[at]unito.it
    homepage: Enrico Borgogno Mondino | Uni TO

    Mirco Boschetti, PhD
    Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment – CNR IREA
    Via Alfonso Corti,12
    20133 MILANO, Italy

    phone: +39 02 23699297
    e-mail: mirco.boschetti[at]cnr.it 
    homepage: Mirco Boschetti | CNR IREA

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    Mailing list

    If you wish to be part of the SIG and exchange with other european colleagues, then just please mail to one (or both) of the chair person (details are provided above in the Contact section).