[FAO x Data Strategy] How to Use Earth Observation Data for Agricultural Statistics & SDG Monitoring

Collecting data and predicting real time crop area and yield is difficult and expensive. FAO, through the EOSTAT project, is helping countries in overcoming this challenge and building their technical capacity to consistently collect agricultural statistics through integrated earth observation data, physical modelling, and ground truth data collection.

Experts from the UN statistical community discovered how EOSTAT is implemented, and learned more about its innovative aspects with respect to traditional approaches for the production of crop statistics based solely on field surveys and with respect to conventional EO approaches based on statistical relationships with vegetation indexes.