Crop Condition Assessment Program, 2014
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Released: 2014-11-04
The weekly satellite images for the 2014 growing season have been processed by Statistics Canada and are now available on the Crop Condition Assessment Program (CCAP) website.
In addition, the 2014 mean value of the one kilometre resolution satellite picture elements within each of the census agriculture regions or census consolidated subdivisions of Canada that contains pasture and/or cropping activity is now available on CANSIM. The inter-annual weekly reference period is from mid-April to mid-October.
The CCAP is a free web mapping application that provides timely, objective cropland and pasture monitoring information on a weekly basis for Canada's entire agricultural region, along with the northern part of the United States.
The program combines state-of-the-art satellite remote sensing with geographic information systems and dynamic web mapping technologies. It is the longest running near real-time, operational, web-based, crop and pasture condition monitoring program using satellite data in Canadian history.
An additional satellite data source with an improved resolution of 250 metres, implemented in 2010, is also available for the 2014 edition of the CCAP.
Satellite imagery is received every Monday from early April until mid-October. Weekly updates are made to the web application within minutes of receiving the satellite data for near real-time use by the entire agriculture community.
Current conditions are compared with a 27-year normal, allowing easy mapping of areas under stress, such as drought, flooding or frost events. The web application includes other features such as thematic maps and data in graph and tabular format for four types of different geography layers, from the census agriculture region to the township level. The entire historical database from 1987 onward is included in the application.
Also included is an experimental yield forecast for spring wheat, durum wheat, barley, corn for grain, soybeans and canola. These yield forecast models use historical yield estimates, agro-meteorological data and current satellite image data to estimate crop yields in near real-time.
Note to readers
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, through the Growing Forward program, has partnered with Statistics Canada to provide the Crop Condition Assessment Program application free of charge. The Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, part of Natural Resources Canada, has also contributed by providing software for processing the input satellite data.
The publication Crop Condition Assessment Program, 2014 (Catalogue number22-205-X), is now available from the Browse by key resource module of our website under Publications.
Click on the link to access the web application.
Contact information
For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact us (toll-free 1-800-263-1136; 514-283-8300; infostats@statcan.gc.ca) or Media Relations (613-951-4636; statcan.mediahotline-ligneinfomedias.statcan@canada.ca).
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