News

Validation of the large scale demonstration finished

In preparation of the global demonstration, the ESA WorldCereal team has finished the validation of the large scale demonstration. The results were discussed during the WorldCereal Prototype Review Meeting, which was held on December 7, 2021.

WorldCereal's first user workshop

The WorldCereal consortium is organizing its first user workshop on November 16, 2021.

Join the WorldCereal team at ESA’s Phi Week

Next week ESA is organizing the fourth edition of the Φ-week. Join the WorldCereal team to discover more about the project’s progress and next steps.

Results of our benchmarking exercise

"Mapping crops globally requires a careful workflow design taking into account quality, technical feasibility & ground truth reality!" - Kristof Van Tricht shares some results of the benchmarking exercise.

In-situ data for global crop mapping

WorldCereal counts on the global agricultural monitoring community to share high-quality in-situ data to train and validate the custom-developed crop classification algorithms.

Engaging the user community

To kickstart the WorldCereal project, the team organized an online agricultural survey to collect as many reference data as possible, and performed interviews with key user to refine the user requirements.

Agricultural data inventory

We are currently making an inventory of agricultural reference datasets. In particular, we are looking for spatially explicit information on land cover (cropland extent), crop type and irrigation practices. If you are willing and able to share a d

ESA Tender 'WorldCereal' granted

ESA's new project 'WorldCereal' is officially kicked off during a virtual meeting June 5, 2020. Discover more about WorldCereal and how we will develop an open-source, efficient, agile and robust EO based system to timely monitor the global cropla