OTTAWA — Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has partnered with Statistics Canada to provide the Crop Condition Assessment Program application. The Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, part of Natural Resources Canada, has also contributed by providing software for processing the input satellite data.
Weekly data on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index for the period from April 10 to May 28, 2023, are now available as part of Statistics Canada’s Crop Condition Assessment Program (CCAP).
The CCAP provides information on crop and pasture conditions derived from satellite images for all agricultural regions of Canada. The CCAP database contains the mean value of the 1-kilometre resolution and the 250-metre resolution satellite pixels within each of the census agriculture regions, census divisions and census consolidated subdivisions of Canada with pasture or cropland activity.
The application will be updated on a weekly basis during the entire growing season.
Crop Condition Assessment Program, April 10 to May 28, 2023:
Seeding progress and weather conditions: Average precipitation was recorded from Sarnia to Quebec. Temperatures across Eastern Canada were average.
Crop conditions throughout Ontario and Quebec were ranked as lower when compared with the average (1987 to 2022)
