CROP STATE AND AREA ESTIMATION IN UKRAINE BASED ON REMOTE AND IN- SITU OBSERVATIONS

This paper highlights the current state on establishing a network of test sites in Ukraine within the Joint Experiment for Crop Assessment and Monitoring (JECAM) project of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). The results achieved so far on developing methods for crop state and area estimation using satellite and in situ observations are presented. The agromonitoring portal that provides access to geospatial products is described as well.