GrasSat - complementary tool for managing grassland production

GrasSAT - Tools for information to farmers on grasslands yields under stressed conditions to support management practices

Founded by: National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR)
Duration of the project: June 1, 2020 – April 30, 2024

Project contact: Remote Sensing Centre, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography
Professor Katarzyna Dąbrowska-Zielińska, e-mail:katarzyna.dabrowska-zielinska@igik.edu.pl

Partners: Poznan University of Life Sciences (PULS), Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE), GEOMATIC Michał Wyczałek-Jagiełło


Main objective:

The main objective of GrasSat project is a fully operational system in form of desktop and mobile application, which provides a complementary tool for managing grassland production, mainly for medium and large farms in Poland and Norway. Combining the effectiveness of the application with the support of external advisors is the key to improve grass production management. Experience of the team of remote sensing and grassland specialists will be the firm foundation of the tools to be prepared within the project.

Specific objectives:

The project objectives were defined as follows:

  • delivery of the service in the form of desktop and mobile application to optimize farm management like reducing the need for supplementary forage;
  • development of the method for grassland damage assessment, caused by drought or winterkill on the basis of multi-source satellite data and their synergy with meteorological data;
  • novel approaches will be generally based on innovative use of satellite data in the grassland management to increase yield and monitoring of grassland status.

Methodology:

The methodology for monitoring grass growth conditions and yield forecast will be based on synergistic use of remotely sensed data, process-based grassland models and reference in-situ data, indispensable for elaborating reliable models characterizing plant development. Using remote sensing to etimate the expected yield in a grassland can help farmers to prepare for importing forage and to detect areas with high water stress. In addition, process-based models can help estimate the impact of a drought of freezinf event on the yield. The project assumes the use of ground data for the calibration of satellite data.


Projects dissemination:

  • Dabrowska-Zielinska K., 2023, Approach based on innovated use of satellite data in the grassland management to increase yield and monitoring of grassland status, EuroGEO Workshop 2023, 2 - 4 October 2023, Bolzano, Italy.
  • Gurdak R., Dąbrowska-Zielińska K., Bochenek Z., Kluczek M., Goliński P., Persson T., Davids C., Wyczałek-Jagiełło M., 2022, Tools for information to farmers on grasslands yields under stressed conditions to support management practices, Living Planet Symposium, 23 - 27 May 2022, Bonn, Germany. POSTER
  • Dąbrowska-Zielińska K., Goliński P., Jørgensen M., Davids C., Persson T., 2021, Tools for information to farmers on grasslands yields under stressed conditions to support management practices – the GrasSAT project, Proceedings of the 21st Symposium of the European Grassland Federation Sensing – New Insights into Grassland Science and Practice, Grassland Science in Europe, Vol. 26, pp. 214-216. PAPER
  • Dąbrowska-Zielińska K., Goliński P., Jørgensen M., Davids C., Persson T., 2021, Tools for information to farmers on grasslands yields under stressed conditions to support management practices – the GrasSAT project, 21st Symposium of the European Grassland Federation Sensing – New Insights into Grassland Science and Practice, 17 - 19 May 2021, online hosted by the Universität Kassel (Germany). ABSTRACT
  • Gurdak R., Dabrowska-Zielinska K., Bochenek Z., Kluczek M., Golinski P., Persson T., Davids C., Wyczalek-Jagiello M., 2021, Tools for Information to Farmers on Grasslands Yields Under Stressed Conditions to Support Management Practices, 40th EARSeL Symposium 2021 European Remote Sensing-New Solutions for Science and Practice, 7 - 10 June 2021, online hosted by the University of Warsaw.
  • Gurdak R., Dabrowska-Zielinska K., Grzybowski P., 2020, Tools for information to farmers on grasslands yields under stressed conditions to support management practices, 2020, SPIE Security + Defence Digital Forum, 21-25 September 2020, Edinburgh. POSTER