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 Assessment of the Grassland Yield Variability over France: Soil Types and Interpolation Reference Points Management, Outputs Aggregation Through a GIS
Track:  Agriculture
Author:   Isabelle Donet
Philippe CLASTRE
Françoise RUGET
The ISOP Project (Prairies Information and Objective Survey) aims to assess in real time the grassland yield variability for 200 geographical areas in France. It uses daily meteorological data interpolated at each area centroid and also soil characteristics and percentages. Cultural practices information, obtained through a national survey, is also introduced. A crop model (STICS) is then applied to assess the grassland yield for each configuration (about 6,000 simulations foreseen in all). At the end, the results are compared to the statistics and aggregated at different spatial scales to be provided to the French Agriculture Ministry.

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