Winter wheat production in the Russian Federation represents one of the sources of uncertainty for the international commodity market. In particular, adverse weather conditions may induce winter kill resulting in large yields’ losses. Improving the monitoring of winterwheat in Russia with a focus on winter-kill damage and its impacts on yield is thus a key challenge.This paper presents the methods and the results of the biophysical variables retrieval on a daily basis as an input for crop growth modeling at parcel level over a 10-years period (2003-2012) in the Russian context. The field campaigns carried out on 2 sites in the Tula region from 2010 to 2012 shows that it is possible to characterize the spatial and temporal variability at pixel, field and regional scale using medium resolution sensors (MODIS) over Russian fields.
d’Andrimont, R., Waldner, F., Bartalev, S., Plotnikov, D., Kleschenko, A., Virchenko, O., de Wit, A., Roerink, G., & Defourny, P. (2013). Biophysical variables retrieval over Russian winter wheat fields using medium resolution. Proceedings of the ESA Living Planet Symposium. Published. ESA Living Planet Symosium, Edinburg, UK. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/219083