Mapping of management practices on permanent grasslands using Sentinel-2: A case study of Northern Slovakia

Year, pages: 2022, 299 - 315

This paper proposes a framework for identifying management practices on permanent grasslands based on a time series of remote sensing imagery. We assume that by using such an approach it is possible to check compliance with the legal conditions for granting CAP support for agricultural practices. We evaluated grassland management in the Medzilaborce region with Sentinel-2 optical satellite images. We proposed a set of indicators of mowing and grazing based on a rule-based assessment developed over a visual inspection of true color imagery as well as a phenological time series. We further used a land block database and evaluated the management using a specific traffic light system. We found that the grasslands in the studied area are managed extensively, not within time limits for granting CAP subsidies. Results suggest that this framework underestimates the proportion of the managed area of studied land blocks.

Opravil, Š., Pazúr, R. 2022. Mapping of management practices on permanent grasslands using Sentinel-2: A case study of Northern Slovakia. In Geografický časopis, vol. 74, no.4, pp. 299-315. 0016-7193. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/geogrcas.2022.74.4.15

Opravil, Š., Pazúr, R. (2022). Mapping of management practices on permanent grasslands using Sentinel-2: A case study of Northern Slovakia. Geografický časopis, 74(4), 299-315. 0016-7193. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/geogrcas.2022.74.4.15

Publisher: Geografický ústav SAV, v. v. i./Institute of Geography of the Slovak Academy of Sciences