About the technology
University of Toronto’s Aerospace Team – Space Systems Division is conducting a technological demonstration of crop residue mapping from the low-earth orbit using hyperspectral short wave infrared satellite remote sensing. Their Field Imaging Nanosatellite for Crop residue Hyperspectral mapping (FINCH) mission will map different crop residues using spectral mixture analysis.
Satellite imagery for tracking crop residue
GROSSE ISLE (2023-2026)
Five fields on Innovation Farms are being tracked by the EnMAP hyperspectral satellite mission until the FINCH satellite mission launches. Each season, University of Manitoba researchers capture images of these fields using a drone equipped with a hyperspectral system to improve knowledge of soil and crop residue reflectance spectra. In previous seasons, EMILI has used an app created by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) to capture images of crop residue influenced by soil disturbance events (such as seeding, tillage and harvest) to groundtruth the satellite and drone imagery.
