Oil Seed Rape yield analysis using the Light Use Efficiency model in LandKlif project

The crop yield of Oil Seed Rape (OSR) is calculated using the light use efficiency (LUE) model for the state of Bavaria (adopted from Dhillon et al 2020). The yield output is received by inputting the synthetic dataset of Sentinel-2-MODIS with 10-meter spatial and 8-day temporal resolution (generated by Dhillon et al 2022) plus climate elements. The model output is validated using the Landesamt regional crop yield data of Bavaria for 2019 with an R2 of 0.82 and RMSE of 2.14 dt/ha. The NDVI and the yield product was created by Carina Kübert-Flock, Thorsten Dahms, and Maninder Singh Dhillon from TP 7 in LandKlif project.

LandKlif is funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts within the Bavarian Climate Research Network (bayklif).  Within the five year funding period of bayklif, five interdisciplinary senior research associations and five junior research groups are be financed with a total sum of 18 million Euro. LandKliF, as one of the five interdisciplinary senior research associations, addresses the effects of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services in semi-natural, agricultural and urban landscapes.