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International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XXXIX-B8, 2012 
XXII ISPRS Congress, 25 August — 01 September 2012, Melbourne, Australia 
GLOBAL MONITORING FOR FOOD SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT 
— RECENT ADVANCES OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS 
TO AFRICAN AND SIBERIAN SHOW CASES 
Klaus U. Komp' 
Carsten Haub? 
12 EFTAS Remote Sensing Transfer of Technology, Oststrasse 2-18, 
48145 Muenster, Germany — klaus. kompt@eftas.com 
Commission VIII, WG VIII/6 
KEYWORDS: Ecosystems, Agriculture, Environment, Monitoring, Land Cover, Change Detection 
ABSTRACT: 
After four decades of space borne remote sensing, the unmapped white patches have mostly disappeared. Those basic information 
give the foundations to the observation of changes and even the introduction of monitoring programmes for a various number of 
features in the natural and human landscape of our planet. Recent indicators for climatic change together with worrisome alterations 
in regional food production versus the constantly increase of human population demand the design and implementation of reliable 
land management tools which will serve the food security as well as the sustainable use of resources of the ecosystem in its 
respective regional context. The positive responses and convincing results of ESA service elements in the efforts towards food 
security in several African countries have been the basis for the transfer of the methods into another region, the Western Siberian 
corn-belt. The large extends of cropping schemes in West Siberia demand advanced remote sensing methods to be applied in order to 
compare the impacts of climatic change not only on the agricultural production but also on risks for the ecosystem. A multi scale 
approach of remote sensing methods is introduced in analogy to the African activities. An adopted monitoring concept is developed 
using a nearly daily product of medium resolution for wide areas, high resolution sensors for stratified sample areas and in-situ 
observations. Beyond methodological research, the ability of remote sensing is contributing to operational solutions that can ensure 
the nutritional and ecological future of our planet. 
KURZFASSUNG 
Nach vier Jahrzehnten Satellitenfernerkundung sind die meisten weißen Stellen auf der Weltkarte verschwunden. Solche 
Basisinformationen sind die Grundlage für die Beobachtung von Veränderungen und erlauben sogar den Einstieg in das 
systematische Monotoring einer Vielzahl von Elementen der natürlichen und anthropogenen Landschaften unseres Planeten. Rezente 
Indikatoren eines Klimawandels sowie Besorgnis erregende Veränderungen regionaler Ernährungsproduktion bei weiterem 
Bevölkerungswachstum erfordern die Entwicklung und Implementierung verlässlicher Landentwicklungsinstrumente, die sowohl der 
Ernährungssicherung wie auch einer nachhaltigen Ressourcennutzung des Ökosystems im regionalen Kontext dient. Das positive 
Echo und überzeugende Ergebnisse der ESA Serviceelemente für Ernährungssicherung in verschiedenen afrikanischen Staaten 
waren die Grundlage für die Methodenübertragung in eine andere Region, den westsibirischen Getreidegürtel. Die großräumigen 
Anbaumuster Westsibiriens erfordern die Anwendung erweiterter Fernerkundungsmethoden, um die Klimafolgenabschätzung nicht 
nur hinsichtlich der Agrarproduktion, sondern auch hinsichtlich der Ökosystemrisiken zu untersuchen. Analog zu den afrikanischen 
Aktivitäten wird ein mehrstufiger Ansatz von Fernerkundungsmethoden implementiert. Dazu gehört ein angepasstes 
Monitoringkonzept, das nahezu tägliche Produkte mittlerer Auflösung großflächig nutzt, sowie HR-Sensoren für stratifizierte 
Stichprobenflächen und Feldbeobachtungen. Die Leistungsfähigkeit der Fernerkundung trägt dazu bei, dass jenseits methodischer 
Forschung auch operationelle Lösungen die ernährungssichernde und ökologische Zukunft unseres Planeten sichern. 
1. INTRODUCTION derived technology can bring added value. These include 
monitoring parameters reflecting crop condition, agricultural 
  
  
Since the early 1970ies civil space borne remote sensing has 
been contributing to a second discovery of the world, the white 
patches of our maps have mostly disappeared. Those basic 
information give the foundations to the observation of changes 
and even to the introduction of monitoring programmes for 
various features in the natural and human landscape of our 
planet, like the changes by flooding, or draught, landslides or 
erosion, deforestation or desertification, land cultivation or 
urban sprawl and many more. Recent indicators for climatic 
change together with worrisome alterations in regional food 
production versus the constantly increase of human population 
demand the design and implementation of reliable land 
management tools which will serve the food security as well as 
the sustainable use of resources of the ecosystem in its 
respective regional context. 
The Global Monitoring for Food Security (GMFS) focuses on 
those aspects of food security monitoring where satellite 
production and overall vegetation health. For test areas, it has 
established an operational service for crop monitoring in 
support of Food Security that can serve policy makers and 
operational users on various scales by providing spatial 
information on variables that affect Food Security. In view of 
the global need for improved food security and sustainable land 
management schemes, the paper investigates the potential of 
methodological transfer of the African results into a moderate 
climate environment. The SASCHA project focuses on regional 
shifts of agricultural production in consequence of changing 
environmental conditions. The joint reflection of different land 
management developments in different continents is using 
comparable methodological tools. The system adapts existing 
technologies from the Global Monitoring for Environment and 
Security (GMES) initiative to region-specific LULC classes. 
The motivation for this article is the long term experience that 
around the world there are always the rural areas that suffer