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GrassLands - First Cut - Yearly, 10m


DLR
EOC
Agriculture
Mowing
Cutting
Meadow
Grassland Management
Sentinel-2
opendata

The timing of the first mowing event per year strongly impacts grassland functions and ecology, such as the provision of habitats and species composition. As grasslands in Germany are managed on small-scale units and grass grows back quickly, satellite information with high spatial and temporal resolution is necessary to capture grassland mowing dynamics. Based on Sentinel-2 data time series, mowing events are detected throughout Germany and the date of the first mowing event per year is extracted. The grassland mowing detection approach operates per pixel, including preprocessing of the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) time series and a calibrated rule-based grassland mowing detection which is specified in more detail in Reinermann et al. 2022, 2023.

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  • Reinermann, S., et al. (2022). Detection of grassland mowing events for Germany by combining Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series. Remote Sensing 14(1647): 1-27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14071647
  • Reinermann, S., et al. (2023). Multi-annual grassland mowing dynamics in Germany: spatio-temporal patterns and the influence of climate, topographic and socio-political conditions. Frontiers in Environmental Science 11: 1040551. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1040551

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Grassland Mowing - First Cut

The layer shows the date of first mowing event.

Title: STAC
Endpoint: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/ogc/stac/v1
Collection: GL_MOW_DE_P1Y_FC
Request: Collection (JSON)
Preview: Collection (HTML)
Items: Request (JSON)

Title: EOC Land Map Service
Endpoint: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/land/wms
Layer: GL_MOW_DE_P1Y_FC
Capabilities: GetCapabilities (XML)
Preview: GetMap (Openlayers)

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GrassLands - Mowing Frequency - Yearly, 10m

2025-04-15