PASTURES FROM SPACE – DELIVERING THE INFORMATION TO FARMERS

摘要

The Pastures from Space (PFS) project has developed the technology to predict pasture growth rate (PGR) for Mediterranean annual pastures (Donald et al. 2004). The Department of Land Information, Satellite Remote Sensing Services (DLI-SRSS), producesthe PGR product operationally from satellite, meteorological and paddock data inputs (see Figure 1). The PGR product (Mata et al. 2004) is comprehensive in that all grazing properties in southern Australia are covered weekly using the MODIS sensor, which provides a maximum resolution of 6 ha.