- Development and launching at the national scale of a multi uses database combining aerial photographs and satellite imagery

Context and objectives

Actually, the Belgian Ministry of Agriculture (DG3) dispose, in particular, of an aerial photographs database management system and of all the numerical orthophotographs of Belgium (at a resolution of 1 meter and dated 1995). The database has been developed for the implementation of the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS), the system concretising the regulation of the new Common Agricultural policy (CAP).
Up to now, this system has given full satisfaction. Consequently the Ministry would like to dispose of functionality’s necessary to manage imageries of satellites. Such a development is considered in order to totally integrate the remote sensing control of the farmer’s applications in the IACS. The main objectives of this integration to the IACS would be the efficacy increase and the cost decrease of the annual control by remote sensing. In particular, that should conduct to the following strategic advantages for the DG3 :
- maximal operational and computer integration of the control by remote sensing in IACS;
- maximal automation of computing processes;
- early remote sensing control diagnoses;
- computing development amortise thanks to variable applications.