[31.05.2010 ] Quantifying hail damage for crop loss assessment
Hail damage results in losses of approximately 3% of total broad-acre crop production every year across the Darling Downs region of Queensland. Current practices of hail damage assessment are both time and labour intensive. The use of remote sensing and geographic information systems can provide alternative techniques for the assessment of crop hail damage. Remote sensing is currently providing valuable data for precision agriculture and land-use / land-cover mapping but rarely has it been used for insurance and loss calculation. Results have indicated the usefulness of Landsat 7
ETM+ imagery in the calculation of area and quantum of damage for loss adjusting purposes.
Author:
Owen Chandler, Armando Apan, Rod Pullinger, and Ken Bullen
07.06.2010 Adjusting Hail and Storm Damage on Maize seminar - September 8-10, 2010, Switzerland International Association of Agricultural Production Insurers offers a seminar on hail and storm damage on corn. The seminar is jointly organized by the association and Swiss Hail. the seminar will be conducted on September 8-10, 2010 in Egerkingen. Enrolment - by August 1, 2010. 12.04.2010 Remote Sensing Index-Based Crop Insurance Working Group meeting - August 10-11, 2010, USA The 2nd International Working Group On Remote Sensing Index-Based Crop Insurance will take place on August 10-11, 2010 in San Francisco, CA at the Fairmont Hotel. Practical technical issues related to implementing satellite derived index based crop insurance will be discussed.
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