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→ the Ever Growing Use of Copernicus Across Europe’S Regions → THE EVER GROWING USE OF COPERNICUS ACROSS EUROPE’S REGIONS A selection of 99 user stories by local and regional authorities ACROSS EUROPE’S REGIONS REGIONS EUROPE’S ACROSS Transports, Civil Public Health Cultural Agriculture, Transports,Biodiversity Civil and PublicTerritorial Health Climate,Cultural Water Transports,Agriculture,Civil Protection Civil PublicBiodiversity Health and TerritorialTransports,CulturalTransports, CivilCivil Climate,PublicAgriculture,Public HealthHealth Water CivilBiodiversityCulturalCultural Protection and Transports,TerritorialTransports,Agriculture,Agriculture, Civil Civil PublicClimate,PublicBiodiversityBiodiversity Health HealthWater andand CulturalTerritorialTerritorialCivilCultural Protection Agriculture,Climate,Climate,Agriculture, WaterWater BiodiversityCivilCivilBiodiversity ProtectionProtection and and TerritorialTerritorial Climate,Climate, Water Water CivilCivil Protection Protection Infrastructure Heritage, Food, Forestry InfrastructureEnvironmental Management andHeritage, Energy InfrastructureInfrastructureFood, Forestry Environmental ManagementInfrastructureHeritage,Infrastructure andFood, Energy Forestry EnvironmentalHeritage,Heritage, InfrastructureManagementInfrastructureFood,Food, ForestryForestry andEnvironmentalEnvironmental Energy Heritage,ManagementManagementHeritage, Food,andandFood, Forestry EnergyEnergy Forestry EnvironmentalEnvironmental ManagementManagement and andEnergy Energy and Safety Tourism and and Fisheries andProtection Safety and Urban Tourism and andand Safety Fisheries Protection andandTourismand Urban SafetySafety and and Fisheries ProtectionTourismTourism andand andand andSafetyandand Urban Safety FisheriesFisheries ProtectionProtection TourismandandTourism UrbanUrban and and and andFisheries Fisheries ProtectionProtection and andUrban Urban Leisure Planning Leisure PlanningLeisure LeisureLeisure Planning LeisurePlanningPlanningLeisure PlanningPlanning USE OF COPERNICUS www.copernicus.eu | https://sentinels.copernicus.eu authorities and local regional by stories 99A selectionuser of THE EVER GROWING THE EVER GROWING → → THE EVER GROWING USE OF COPERNICUS ACROSS EUROPE’S REGIONS A selection of 99 user stories by local and regional authorities A selection of xx user stories by local and regional authorities | 1 Dear Reader, called for a long-term commitment for the development of a space-based system in support to EU policies and Europe’s international endeavours in protecting We, the European Commission, the European Space Agency and NEREUS – the the environment, adapting to global climate change, enforcing sustainable Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies, are pleased to present development and ensuring civil security. Putting European public users in the you the publication “The ever growing use of Copernicus across Europe’s regions”, driving seat, and recognising their pivotal role in stimulating and shaping the a collection of articles which document, for a non-specialist audience, the downstream market, the Programme is a clear example of European cooperation growing capabilities of European regions to benefit from Copernicus Sentinel at its best. data and information. Copernicus is achieving its operational maturity. The European Commission, the This edition builds upon the 2012 publication “The Growing Use of GMES across European Space Agency and NEREUS will continue to improve its uptake within Europe’s Regions” and provides an updated snapshot of how Copernicus is being Europe’s regions, yet the Programme is now speaking for itself as a decision- used, primarily by public authorities at local and regional levels, six years on. making tool in a broad range of application domains. The public officers, private Since 2012, the system has significantly evolved and, with seven Copernicus companies and researchers who contributed to this collection provide Sentinel satellites and six Copernicus Services in operation and with planning tangible accounts that the Copernicus-based information is now diffusing for the future well underway, data availability has expanded tremendously. into society. In doing so, they are amongst the best testimonials of the Awareness and understanding about the Programme have also increased and a Programme: We are confident you will recognise this whilst going through the refined set of activities has been put in place to stimulate the emergence of new pages of “The ever growing use of Copernicus across Europe’s regions”. Copernicus-based services and products. We wish you a pleasant reading, The current publication portrays 99 Copernicus user stories submitted by authors from almost all of the Copernicus Participating Countries. The geographical Philippe Brunet, Josef Aschbacher and Michele Emiliano and structural diversity of the examples collected here demonstrate that, from brownfield mapping in Wallonia to afforestation monitoring in Thuringia, from public utility management in Milan to farmland monitoring in Lithuania, Copernicus is truly a shared system producing common benefits across Europe. These articles also show that, in parallel to its global and EU-wide dimension, Copernicus is increasingly bringing concrete benefits to the daily lives of our citizens. With respect to the 2012 edition, local and regional administrations form a much larger group, pursuant to their responsibilities in key public policy domains and mandatory EU directives for which Copernicus provides relevant information, e.g. agriculture, regional development and environmental Philippe Brunet Michele Emiliano Dr. Josef Aschbacher Director of Earth Observation management. Their stories collectively testify to the Programme’s contribution Director of Aerospace, NEREUS President Programmes in modernising the public sector and enabling it to deliver more efficient Maritime, Security European Space Agency public services, thereby contributing to an increased quality of life and level and Defence Industries of satisfaction for European citizens. European Commission In June, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Baveno Manifesto, which (DG-GROW) 2 | → THE EVER GROWING USE OF COPERNICUS ACROSS EUROPE’S REGIONS A selection of xx user stories by local and regional authorities | 3 Cloud-free Europe This mosaic of cloud-free images from the Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite spans the entire continent of Europe, and more. The view stretches from Iceland in the northwest across to Scandinavia and Russia in the northeast, and from the northern tips of Norway and Finland to as far south as Algeria, Libya and Egypt. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017), processed by Sinergise/ESA 4 | → THE EVER GROWING USE OF COPERNICUS ACROSS EUROPE’S REGIONS A selection of xx user stories by local and regional authorities | 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS Copernicus in a nutshell 18 The Reinforcing Common Agriculture Policy 54 ARMESTO ANDRÉS, Ana Pilar; LAFARGA ARNAL, Alberto; Copernicus Sentinels in a nutshell 19 PETALIOS, Dimitrios; PAPOUTSIS, Ioannis; SITOKONSTANTINOU, Vasileios Copernicus progress since the 2012 edition in a nutshell 20 Sentinels for Flood and Yield Loss Mapping 56 Introduction 22 ATSTAJA, Zane; IJABS, Harijs; GRINEVICS, Juris Copernicus User Stories Geographic Index: Sentinels Verify Agricultural Subsidies 58 main areas of application as described in the user stories 29 VOORMANSIK, Kaupo; RAUDVERE, Kai A Farmsourcing Platform for a Smart Nitrogen Management 60 AGRICULTURE, FOOD, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES CURNEL, Yannick; GOFFART, Dimitri; PLANCHON, Viviane; GOFFART, Jean-Pierre; DELLOYE, Cindy Introduction 36 A New Detailed Crop and Natural Land Map 62 Overview 38 NAFRÍA, David A.; DEL BLANCO, Vicente; PAREDES, Vanessa; RODRÍGUEZ, Óscar O.; BENGOA, José L. Agriculture CAP Subsidies Control 42 VAITKUS, Gediminas Closing the Yield Gap with Calibrated Crop Maps from Germany 64 HUETTICH, Christian; DAHMS, Thorsten; CONRAD, Christopher Agricultural Damage Mapping in Hungary 44 NÁDOR, Gizella; FRIEDL, Zoltán; ROTTERNÉ KULCSÁR, Anikó; Copernicus Supports Precision Farming for an Apulian Vineyard 66 HUBIK, Irén; PACSKÓ, Vivien; SUREK, György IASILLO, Daniela; RIEU, Guillaume; PALUMBO, Giuseppe Agriculture Monitoring in Wallonia Using Sentinel Images 46 Copernicus for Efficient Farming in the Western Cape of South Africa 68 LUCAU DANILA, Cozmin; BERIAUX, Emilie; LETEINTURIER, Béatrice GOUDRIAAN, Ruben; JARMAIN, Caren; ROUX, Andre Copernicus Data and CAP Monitoring in Romania 48 Crop Condition Monitoring at Field Level 70 FLUERARU, Cristian; CUCU-DUMITRESCU, Catalin; GHAZARYAN, Gohar; DUBOVYK, Olena; GRAW, Valerie; BUDILEANU, Marius; COPACENARU, Olimpia KUSSUL, Nataliia; SCHELLBERG, Jürgen Earth Observation Data to Detect Irrigated Areas: Eo-Based Agro Monitoring System an Application in Southern Italy 50 to Support Regional Decision-Making 72 DE MICHELE, Carlo; FALANGA BOLOGNESI, Salvatore; BELFIORE, Oscar Rosario GRANELL, Carlos; CASTELEYN, Sven; BUSETTO, Lorenzo; PASCUCCI, Simone; GARCÍA-HARO, Javier; GITAS, Ioannis; HOLECZ, Francesco; Earth Observation for Smart Farming and CAP Performance 52 STAVRAKOUDIS, Dimitris; CONFALONIERI, Roberto; BOSCHETTI, Mirco MARIANOS, Nikolaos; KALATZIS, Nikolaos; SYKAS, Dimitrios TABLE OF CONTENTS Free Internet Programme for Danish Farmers 74 Forest Monitoring Service for South Tyrol 92 HØRFARTER, Rita SONNENSCHEIN, Ruth; UNTERTHINER, Guenther Precision Farming: Management of Grasslands 76 Forestland Decay in Maresme Using Sentinel-2 Imagery 94 NICOLAS, Hervé; DUSSEUX, Pauline; AIRIAUD, Alain TARDA, Anna
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