ASAP - Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production
Description
What is ASAP: ASAP is a web-based decision support system for the early warning of hotspots of agricultural production anomalies (crop and rangeland) developed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission for food security crisis prevention and response planning anticipation.
What this application can do for me:
- Provide information on crops and pastures conditions worldwide
- Provide early warning on crops and pastures production and short narratives for countries affected by anomalies of agricultural production
- Provide Earth Observation and weather indicators triggering the warnings
Where:
The monthly early warning assessment focuses on more than 80 countries where:
- food security and rural development are European Development Fund (EDF) focal sectors or
- the country is included in the list of food insecure countries monitored by the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning
ASAP provides access to three types of platforms at three different spatial levels:
- Access to country level information with the Hotspot Assessments page, which gives an overview of the crop and rangeland conditions in a specific country, on a monthly basis for the assessment part;
- Access to warnings and agrometeo data at subnational level with the Warning Explorer, an interface for visualizing crop or rangeland monitoring data (vegetation biomass, rainfall, temperature, water satisfaction index, etc in the form of maps and graphs) at sub-national level every 10 days.
- Access to field level information with the High Resolution Viewer through the display of high resolution satellite data (Sentinel 1, Sentinel 2, Landsat 8 and 9).
- In addition, Seasonal Rainfall Forecast maps for the whole globe and for (sub)continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania) show the probability of drier than normal, normal, or wetter than normal weather over various time periods within the next six months (updated on a monthly basis).
ASAP utilizes various sources of data such as ECMWF ERA-5 and HRES weather data (temperature, global radiation, rainfall above latitude 50N and below 50S, etc.), CHIRPS rainfall by Climate Hazards Group, MODIS NDVI processed by BOKU University, Wien, Austria. The High Resolution Viewer is based on Google Earth Engine while Seasonal Rainfall Forecast maps are derived from from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) multimodel seasonal forecasts.
To access the ASAP and start using it, please, use the following link: ASAP - EC (europa.eu)