Highlighting crops with Agriculture Sandbox NL

Thanks to the benefits of the Agricultural Sandbox NL dataset tool, people working in the agriculture sector, but who are not satellite data experts, can monitor the health and development of crops, right down to each crop in individual fields. Using data from Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sandbox NL, the animation highlights differences in agricultural crop development between January and December in 2020. A combination data streams from Copernicus Sentinel-1’s VH and VV polarisation channels is used to show the sensitivity of the signals to the different growth stages of the crops. This information can directly be used to monitor all crops over the whole Netherlands simultaneously.

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