Abstract
New needs have arisen from member states and paying agencies (PA) to achieve the compliance assessment from farmers in the frame of the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Traditional field inspection (on-the-spot checks) and computer-aided photointerpretation (CAPI) carried out by each PA over a sample of 5% of the applicants are being replaced by a 100% sample Copernicus satellite-based system (checks by monitoring, CbM). This new approach will be an integral part of the Area Monitoring System that will be part of the Integrated Administrative Control System (IACS) in the post-2020 CAP. Among all the aid schemes having to be analyzed, there are some specific aids in which the detection of irrigation of certain crops can result in a no-compliance resolution. Apart from that, the knowledge of the truly irrigated area in each campaign has always been data of great interest in irrigation planning, crop yield statistics, and water management, and now more than ever. Although several sources of information exist, there is no consensual methodology for estimating the actual irrigated area. The objective of this study is to propose a methodological approach based mainly on Copernicus Sentinel and IACS data not only to detect the surface of herbaceous crops that have been actually irrigated but also to derive a product suitable to be incorporated into the CAP monitoring process system. This methodology is already being used operationally during the ongoing campaign 2020 by Castile and León PA.
Highlights
As of 22 May 2018, the European Commission (EC) adopted new rules [1] as a movement to simplify and modernize the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) allowing for the first time the usage of a range of modern technologies when carrying out checks for CAP payments
It is worth noting that this on-the-spot Check (OTSC) system only checks 5% of the dossiers randomly selected from the whole of applicants, either with field visits or computer-aided photointerpretation (CAPI)
We compute the widely used F-score, which is the harmonic mean of user’s accuracy (UA) and paying agency (PA)
Summary
As of 22 May 2018, the European Commission (EC) adopted new rules [1] as a movement to simplify and modernize the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) allowing for the first time the usage of a range of modern technologies when carrying out checks for CAP payments These new rules enable data from the EU’s Copernicus Sentinel satellites and other Earth Observation (EO) platforms to be used as evidence when checking farmers’ fulfillment of requirements under the CAP for area-based payments, either direct payments to farmers from European agricultural guarantee fund (first pillar of the CAP) or rural development support payments (second pillar of the CAP). This transition period or phase-in period should be limited in time to ensure equal treatment of beneficiaries [1]
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