Monitoring Agricultural ResourceS (MARS)

 For the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy, the European Commission needs timely information on the agricultural production to be expected in the current season. This is a main concern of the MARS-project (Monitoring Agricultural ResourceS) of the AGRI4CAST and FOODSEC units of the Directorate General Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission in Ispra (Italy).     Available products include:     Graphs and maps of weather indicators based on observations and numerical weather models     Graphs and maps of crop indicators based on agro-meteorological models     Graphs and maps of vegetation indices and cumulated dry matter based on remote sensing images