Early Stage Crop/ Land Cover Type Classification by using SEN4CAP

Since 2017 NPA has been in a close collaboration with project the Sentinels for Common Agricultural Policy - Sen4CAP consortium. The project aims at providing to the European and national stakeholders of the CAP validated algorithms, products, workflows and best practices for agriculture monitoring relevant for the management of the CAP. The project idea is to pay particular attention to provide evidence how Sentinel derived information can support the modernization and simplification of the CAP in the post 2020 timeframe. NPA contribute to the success of the project with its experience, as well as provide data on the development of new products and test them. This report gives an overview of a collaboration between NPA and Sen4CAP focussed on the 2020 claim year. The main idea is to check if any results generated before and during applications submission period could be used as preliminary data. By using results of land cover classification, crop classification and activity monitoring it would lead to availability to check if it provides benefit in the beginning and during declaration period as preliminary data of crop type (summer, winter, land cover, land use). In Lithuania declaration process starts at the middle of April so in order to prepare necessary information before declaration we need to start gathering results from the beginning of April.