The South African National Space Agency has developed a system to monitor crops

The Earth Observation (EO) Directorate of the South African National Space Agency (Sansa) has developed an advanced crop-monitoring system for South Africa that will also be made available to other African countries, in due course. “We are able to monitor their [the crops’] condition through time,” Sansa EO acting MD Dr Paida Mangara told the thirty-seventh International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment (ISRSE) in Pretoria. “We want to implement it throughout the African region through our cooperation with Nepad,” he told Engineering News Online. “Currently, there are five countries which will pilot the system. We are developing the implementation plan, starting with these five countries.” Their names will be released at a later date, jointly with Nepad.