The AGRISAT_XXI project is being developed in FCUP (Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto), CICGE (Centro de Investigação em Ciências Geo-Espaciais) and ISA (Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon). The research team is composed of 9 elements (table below), two being a fellowship researcher funded by the FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal).
| Name | Institution | Academic degree | Role |
| Mário Manuel Cunha | FCUP and CICGE | PhD | Principal Researcher |
| André Ribeiro Marçal | FCUP and CICGE | PhD | Researcher |
| Arlete da Silva Rodrigues | FCUP and CICGE | PhD | Researcher |
| Isabel Pôças | FCUP and CEER | PhD | Researcher |
| Luis Alberto Pereira | ISA and CEER | Aggregation | Researcher |
| Teresa Afonso do Paço | ISA and CEER | PhD | Researcher |
| Ricardo Duarte Rosa | ISA and CEER | PhD | Researcher |
| Tayeb Raziei | FCUP and CICGE | PhD | Researcher |
| Ana Patrícia Costa | FCUP and CICGE | BSc | Fellowship Researcher |
| Sara Gonçalves | FCUP | BSc | Fellowship Researcher |
The overall goal of this research proposal is to test the adequacy of different EOS data for the monitoring of agricultural crops, towards defining the more suited tools to support future research on impacts of global changes in agricultural ecosystems.
Considering that global change impacts on agricultural crops will mostly concern vegetation dynamics (dates of occurrence of phenological events, vegetation growth and yield) and water use/water requirements, the specific goals of this research proposal include:
- To evaluate the sensitiveness of satellite sensors with different characteristics for describing the vegetation dynamics in agricultural crops; for this evaluation, different conditions of vegetation cover will be tested: continuous cover vs discontinuous cover; herbaceous vegetation vs shruby/arboreous cover; gg
- To evaluate the adequacy of several vegetation indices;
- for the monitoring of vegetation dynamics in agricultural crops, considering different conditions of vegetation cover and different crop systems; bbbb
- To evaluate the adequacy of remotely sensed data derived from satellite sensors with thermal band to obtain evapotranspiration (ET) estimates for agricultural crops with different vegetation/ground cover conditions
PROJECTS TASKS
Task 1 – Evaluation of EO data adequacy for the monitoring of agricultural crops and agricultural ecosystems
Task 2 – Vegetation indices to characterize the vegetation dynamics: continuous vegetation cover vs discontinuous vegetation cover
Task 3 – Satellite based energy balance as a tool for the monitoring of impacts of global change in water use / water demand
