Sentinel-2 For Agriculture National Demonstration In Ukraine: Results And Further Steps

Agriculture is one of the key areas where Remote Sensing (RS) techniques can be efficiently implemented for solving wide range of tasks (crop mapping, crop monitoring, crop yield forecasting etc.) on regular basis. Sentinel mission represents really new opportunities in agricultural domain free of charge for non-commercial use satellite images with 10-20 m spatial resolution, 5-day revisit frequency with global coverage and compatibility to the Landsat missions. In this paper we present the results of Sentinel-2 national demonstration project in Ukraine executed during vegetation period of 2016 and coordinated by Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL). Within this demonstration Ukraine was selected as one of three sites for national demonstration due to high variability of agroclimatic conditions, relatively big fields and wide range of major crops over the territory of the country.