DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7139348
title: EO-based area monitoring markers computed over the Cypriotic pilot region (2022)

description: In the context of the EU-funded project DIONE (No. 870378), the following EO-based monitoring marker maps were released over the two pilot regions, containing the results produced from a set of image analysis and machine learning techniques. The latest explores the benefits of Copernicus's multispectral high-resolution Sentinel-2 data acquired from 01-08-2021 until 03-09-2022 and provides tailored information on the needs of European paying agencies (e.g. CAPO and NPA), expressed with the following markers. <strong>Mowing marker:</strong> used to detect mowing events on meadow/grass like Features Of Interest (FOI) <strong>Mean-NDVI marker:</strong> used to detect erroneous claims with no vegetation <strong>Homogeneity marker:</strong> used to determine if a parcel geometry consists of a single crop or if multiple things are growing on the parcel <strong>Bare soil marker:</strong> used to detect observation where bare soil is present on the feature of interest. This indicates agricultural activity on the FOI (plowing, harvest) <strong>Similarity and distance markers:</strong> used to give additional context to the crop classification and to detect erroneous claims <strong>Land marker:</strong> used to detect the land type and non-productive EFAs of the FOI <strong>Crop-type marker:</strong> used to detect the specific crop growing on the FOI This dataset is comprised of the geopackage file <em>"markers_summary.gpkg", </em>which was computed for the Cypriotic pilot region. Descriptions are given below. <strong>Markers summary dataset</strong> <strong>Description of the information contained in the corresponding "markers summary" dataset</strong> Attribute name Description POLY_ID Unique polygon identifier OBS_ALL Number of all available observations OBS_VALID Number of all valid observations CROP_CODE Crop identifier N_PIXEL Number of S2 pixels within FOI PLOTIDCROP PLOT_ID_CROP BS_APR_END Number of bare-soil observations between 2022-03-01 and 2022-04-30 BS_FEB_JUN Number of bare-soil observations between 2022-02-01 and 2022-06-30 BS_JAN_APR Number of bare-soil observations between 2022-01-01 and 2022-04-30 BS_JAN_MAR Number of bare-soil observations between 2022-01-01 and 2022-03-31 BS_OCT_DEC Number of bare-soil observations between 2021-10-01 and 2021-12-31 BS_OCT_SEP Number of bare-soil observations between 2021-10-01 and 2022-09-30 P_CROP The FOI label as predicted by the crop group model CR_P_SCORE The pseudoprobability of the crop-group prediction. A score close to 1 indicates that the model is very confident in the prediction D_GROUP Declared crop group DIST_CROP Most similar crop according to the distance marker DIST_SC00 Distance marker score of a most similar crop DIST_SCORE Distance marker score of a FOI when compared to nearby FOIs with the same claim. A value close to 100 indicates that a FOI is not similar to other FOIs with the same claim. HOM_CLASS Homogeneous/Heterogeneous HOM_SCORE Homogeneity probability assigned by the homogeneity marker P_LAND_GR The FOI label as predicted by the land group model using crop groupings based on land use LGRP_SCORE The pseudoprobability of the crop-group prediction. A score close to 1 indicates that the model is very confident in the prediction. D_LAND Declared land group M_NDVI_A_J Mean NDVI value in interval 2022-04-01 till 2022-07-31 M_NDVI_F_M Mean NDVI value in interval 2022-02-01 till 2022-03-31 M_NDVI_J_A Mean NDVI value in interval 2022-01-01 till 2022-04-30 MW_FEB_JUN Number of mowing events between 2022-02-01 and 2022-06-30 MW_OCT_SEP Number of mowing events between 2021-10-01 and 2022-09-30 MW_ALL Number of mowing events in the observation period SIM_CROP Most similar crop according to similarity marker SIM_SC00 Similarity marker score of a most similar crop SIM_SCORE Similarity marker score of a FOI when compared to nearby FOIs with the same claim. A value close to 100 indicates that a FOI is not similar to other FOIs with the same claim.