EO-based area monitoring markers computed over the Cypriotic pilot region (2022)

In the context of the EU-funded project DIONE (No. 870378), the following EO-based monitoring marker maps were released over the two pilot regions, containing the results produced from a set of image analysis and machine learning techniques. The latest explores the benefits of Copernicus's multispectral high-resolution Sentinel-2 data acquired from 01-08-2021 until 03-09-2022 and provides tailored information on the needs of European paying agencies (e.g. CAPO and NPA), expressed with the following markers.

Mowing marker: used to detect mowing events on meadow/grass like Features Of Interest (FOI)

Mean-NDVI marker: used to detect erroneous claims with no vegetation

Homogeneity marker: used to determine if a parcel geometry consists of a single crop or if multiple things are growing on the parcel

Bare soil marker: used to detect observation where bare soil is present on the feature of interest. This indicates agricultural activity on the FOI (plowing, harvest)

Similarity and distance markers: used to give additional context to the crop classification and to detect erroneous claims

Land marker: used to detect the land type and non-productive EFAs of the FOI

Crop-type marker: used to detect the specific crop growing on the FOI

This dataset is comprised of the geopackage file "markers_summary.gpkg", which was computed for the Cypriotic pilot region. Descriptions are given below.

Markers summary dataset

Description of the information contained in the corresponding "markers summary" dataset

Attribute name
Description

 POLY_ID 
Unique polygon identifier

OBS_ALL
Number of all available observations

OBS_VALID
Number of all valid observations

CROP_CODE
Crop identifier

N_PIXEL
Number of S2 pixels within FOI

PLOTIDCROP
PLOT_ID_CROP

BS_APR_END
Number of bare-soil observations between 2022-03-01 and 2022-04-30 

BS_FEB_JUN
Number of bare-soil observations between 2022-02-01 and 2022-06-30

BS_JAN_APR
Number of bare-soil observations between 2022-01-01 and 2022-04-30

BS_JAN_MAR
Number of bare-soil observations between 2022-01-01 and 2022-03-31

BS_OCT_DEC
Number of bare-soil observations between 2021-10-01 and 2021-12-31

BS_OCT_SEP
Number of bare-soil observations between 2021-10-01 and 2022-09-30

P_CROP
The FOI label as predicted by the crop group model

CR_P_SCORE
The pseudoprobability of the crop-group prediction. A score close to 1 indicates that the model is very confident in the prediction

D_GROUP
Declared crop group

DIST_CROP
Most similar crop according to the distance marker

DIST_SC00
Distance marker score of a most similar crop

DIST_SCORE
Distance marker score of a FOI when compared to nearby FOIs with the same claim. A value close to 100 indicates that a FOI is not similar to other FOIs with the same claim.

HOM_CLASS
Homogeneous/Heterogeneous

HOM_SCORE
Homogeneity probability assigned by the homogeneity marker

P_LAND_GR
The FOI label as predicted by the land group model using crop groupings based on land use

LGRP_SCORE
The pseudoprobability of the crop-group prediction. A score close to 1 indicates that the model is very confident in the prediction.

D_LAND
Declared land group

M_NDVI_A_J
Mean NDVI value in interval 2022-04-01 till 2022-07-31

M_NDVI_F_M
Mean NDVI value in interval 2022-02-01 till 2022-03-31

M_NDVI_J_A
Mean NDVI value in interval 2022-01-01 till 2022-04-30 

MW_FEB_JUN
Number of mowing events between 2022-02-01 and 2022-06-30

MW_OCT_SEP
Number of mowing events between 2021-10-01 and 2022-09-30

MW_ALL
Number of mowing events in the observation period

SIM_CROP
Most similar crop according to similarity marker

SIM_SC00
Similarity marker score of a most similar crop

SIM_SCORE
Similarity marker score of a FOI when compared to nearby FOIs with the same claim. A value close to 100 indicates that a FOI is not similar to other FOIs with the same claim.