ServicesRemote sensing monitoring and validation

Technical consultancy

Remote sensing monitoring and validation

Consultancy support for teams that need Earth observation products connected to a monitoring question, appropriate ground evidence, transparent validation, and usable spatial deliverables.

Earth observation workflow and farm-scale soil organic carbon mapping output

Who this helps

FAO- and CGIAR-style programmes, public agencies, NGOs, research consortia, agri-environment teams, and senior consultants preparing land, agriculture, soil, water, coastal, or climate-monitoring work.

Common project questions

  • Which EO covariates and time windows are appropriate for the area and decision?
  • What field or reference evidence is needed to validate the output?
  • How should uncertainty and transferability be communicated?
  • Which layers and summaries will work in GIS, dashboards, reports, or stakeholder review?

Support options

  • Advisory review of an existing monitoring concept or spatial product
  • Defined AOI and EO covariate-processing package
  • Validation design, benchmarking, and uncertainty review
  • Phased workflow from evidence inventory to map, reporting, and handover

Deliverables

  • AOI and data inventory
  • EO covariate stacks and documented processing
  • Monitoring maps and GIS-ready layers
  • Validation plan, error diagnostics, and uncertainty outputs
  • Dashboard-ready layers, figures, and methods or limitations notes

Boundaries and limitations

Map quality depends on reference data, observation timing, cloud and bare-soil availability, spatial scale, and local calibration. Outputs are not presented as guaranteed predictions, and regulatory or operational use may require local expert review and additional validation.