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.
Description and overview of the application can be found here: Joint Research Centre (europa.eu)
What this application can do for me:
- Provide information to the early warning community and inputs to multiagency food security assessments
- Provide timely warnings and short narratives for countries affected by anomalies of agricultural production
- 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 the list of food insecure countries monitored by the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning
ASAP provides use of platforms:
- Hotspot assessment (with country assessment page rendering function, it gives overview of the crop and rangeland conditions in a specific country)
- Warning Explorer (interface for crop monitoring data at sub-national level updated every 10 days). Warning Explorer facilitates browsing, selecting and visualizing specific indicators, such as vegetation, precipitation and water indices, temperature differences and rainfall; explore graphs and statistics for sub-national units.
- High Resolution Viewer (quickly load high resolution satellite data (Sentinel 1, Sentinel 2, Landsat 8 and 9).
- Seasonal Forecast maps for the whole globe and regions (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America,Oceania) which show the probability of the most likely category (drier than normal, normal, wetter than normal) over the selected time period.
ASAP utilizes different data from various sources, such as ERA-5 and ERA-HRES provided by ECMWF, CHIRPS by Climate Hazards Group, MODIS NDVI by the Institute of Surveying, Remote Sensing and Land Information, BOKU University, Wien, Austria. High Resolution Viewer gives output of map layers retrieved from Google Earth Engine. Seasonal Forecast maps are based on the precipitation extracted from the Copernicus Climate Change Service C3S multimodel seasonal forecast.
To access the ASAP and start using it, please, use the following link: ASAP - EC (europa.eu)
Learn more
To learn more about the ASAP, please, use the following video tutorial: ASAP - Anomaly Hot Spots of Agricultural Production: short tutorial - YouTube