Remote sensing of vegetation: potential applications for index insurance
In food insecure regions of the world index insurance can represent an effective instrument to improve farmers’ access to credit and foster investments aimed at increasing crop productivity (e.g. fertilizers, high-yielding seeds and other technologies). Insurance indexes are usually based on rainfall measurements from weather stations. However, there is often a shortage of rainfall data because of the sparse network of meteorological stations in developing countries. Earth Observing (EO) systems providing optical imagery with high temporal resolution can be used to fill this gap and deliver timely information on actual crop and pasture development for the design of index insurance indicators. Opportunities and challenges of remote sensing indicators are discussed in this contribution.
MERONI Michele;
KAYITAKIRE Francois;
BROWN Molly;
2013-09-09
European Commission
JRC71519
978-92-79-27783-2,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC71519,
10.2788/713,
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