Satellite Agricultural Monitoring in Ukraine at Country Level: World Bank Project
Nataliia Kussul, Андрій Шелестов, Hanna Yailymova, Bohdan Yailymov, Mykola Lavreniuk, Matviy Ilyashenko
Abstract
Ukrainian agricultural industry is one of the main sectors of economic growth. Nevertheless, Ukraine is way behind in the development. This is mostly due to the low level of modern technologies utilization by businesses and state entities. To ensure transparency, equity and reliability of Ukrainian land market, objective information on land use and crop state is required. The World Bank program “Supporting Transparent Land Governance in Ukraine” addresses these issues. Within the project, we performed satellite monitoring of land use in Ukraine, analyzed the feasibility of Google's cloud-based technology for processing large amount of data and developed a new platform to analyze the crop state using open and free Sentinel-1/2 satellite data. It is a 5-year project, which is extended for the whole country this year. We plan to make the technology of satellite monitoring operational and deployed in governmental institutions in 2023.