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Revision as of 11:46, 26 March 2014
Welcome to the Mars Crop Yield Forecasting System (MCYFS) wiki. Here you will find documentation, articles, events and general information about the MCYFS. There is no restriction on reading any of the content, but for editing you need to log in. If you are new to work with Mediawiki software have a look at the FAQ page where you find manuals and frequently used code in this wiki.
To serve different audiences the WikiMCYFS has different levels of information with a corresponding writing style:
- non-expert
- scientific
- expert
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Introduction
For the implementation of the CAP, the European Commission requires information on European crop production of the current growing season. To acquire this information, the MARS-project was started. The project is supervised by two units of the European Commission's JRC in Ispra (Italy): Agri4Cast and Foodsec. The MARS-project is now running in an operational context what is called the MCYFS.
The MCYFS uses near real time data like observed weather, weather forecasts and remote sensing data. On regular intervals new yield statistics are added. Static input data consist of soil maps, crop parameters and administrative regions. With these input data crop conditions can be simulated and crop specific end-of-season yield forecasts are made. With software tools the data can be accessed, analyzed and presented. While the operational management of the MCYFS has been outsourced, the Mars Unit is in charge of research and development, main output quality control, analyses and publication of the MARS bulletins.
The MCYFS consists of an ensemble of methodologies and tools that are grouped into 5 modules.
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