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Eyes in the Sky, Boots on the Ground : Assessing Satellite- and Ground-Based Approaches to Crop Yield Measurement and Analysis in Uganda / Lobell, David B.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Lobell, David B.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture.
- Climate Change and Agriculture.
- Crop Cutting.
- Crop Model.
- Crop Yield.
- Crops & Crop Management Systems.
- Education.
- Educational Sciences.
- Food Security.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Inequality.
- Maize.
- Nutrition.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Remote Sensing.
- Smallholder Farmer.
- Local Subjects:
- Agriculture.
- Climate Change and Agriculture.
- Crop Cutting.
- Crop Model.
- Crop Yield.
- Crops & Crop Management Systems.
- Education.
- Educational Sciences.
- Food Security.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Inequality.
- Maize.
- Nutrition.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Remote Sensing.
- Smallholder Farmer.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (29 pages)
- Other Title:
- Eyes in the Sky, Boots on the Ground
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2018.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Crop yields in smallholder systems are traditionally assessed using farmer-reported information in surveys, occasionally by crop cuts for a sub-section of a farmer's plot, and rarely using full-plot harvests. Accuracy and cost vary dramatically across methods. In parallel, satellite data is improving in terms of spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution needed to discern performance on smallholder plots. This study uses data from a survey experiment in Uganda, and evaluates the accuracy of Sentinel-2 imagery-based, remotely-sensed plot-level maize yields with respect to ground-based measures relying on farmer self-reporting, sub-plot crop cutting (CC), and full-plot crop cutting (FP). Remotely-sensed yields include two versions calibrated to FP and CC yields (calibrated), and an alternative based on crop model simulations, using no ground data (uncalibrated). On the ground, self-reported yields explained less than 1 percent of FP (and CC) yield variability, and while the average difference between CC and FP yields was not significant, CC yields captured one-quarter of FP yield variability. With satellite data, both calibrated and uncalibrated yields captured FP yield variability on pure stand plots similarly well, and both captured half of FP yield variability on pure stand plots above 0.10 hectare. The uncalibrated yields were consistently 1 ton per hectare higher than FP or CC yields, and the satellite-based yields were less well correlated with the ground-based measures on intercropped plots compared with pure stand ones. Importantly, regressions using CC, FP and remotely-sensed yields as dependent variables all produced very similar coefficients for yield response to production factors.
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