Detection and sharing of anomalies in the vegetative vigor of durum wheat in italy

Precision Agriculture (PA) can give a significant contribution to improve food production and its environmental sustainability. The widespread availability of satellite data, distributed globally by Earth Observation (EO) systems, allows today to access and exploit these data in favour of PA techniques. In the present paper, we discuss a methodology, based on satellite (Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope) and geospatial multi-temporal data, clustering, geospatial analysis, and information technologies in order to identify anomalies in the vegetative vigour of two thousand durum wheat fields (about 9000 ha) in Italy. The obtained data represent a significant source of information in guiding the on-field work of agronomists and farmers.