Welcome to the CA-Syria's Agriculture and Land Monitoring Dashboard


Mercy Corps Syria Crisis Analysis Team

  • These two modules measure the health of agricultural land using distinct approaches that are useful for multiple purposes, including research and analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and program management.

  • The first module, the Agriculture Health Monitoring and Evaluation Tool allows users to draw farm outlines or upload shapefiles to visualize and statistically measure the change in vegetation health and water content, which is useful to identify problem areas in farm fields. The module also offers easy-to-use statistical tests (t-tests) that determine whether the change in vegetation health and plant water content is statistically significant. Further, the grouped tests are also available, allowing users to measure different agriculture interventions’ effectiveness in improving farm performance using objective satellite imagery indicators.

  • The second module, the Agriculture Degradation Tracking in Syria, features a new indicator describing the state of agriculture within small areas across the whole of Syria. The novel indicator quantifies the collective trends of several vegetation and soil health indicators and categorizes them into groups describing the overall “health” of agricultural land in each small area. These agriculture health categories are summarized at the sub-district level for targeting purposes, with the small area categorizations serving as a useful metric for targeting within a sub-district.

  • Data sources: Sentinel-1; Sentinel-2; Landsat 5/7/8/9





                  

                  

                  
                

                

                  

                    

                      

                        

                          

                        

                        

                          
                        

                      

                      

                        

                          

                            

                          

                          

                            

                            

                          

                        

                        

                          

                            

                          

                          

                            

                          

                        

                        

                          
                          

                            
                            
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Welcome to the Syria Agricultural Degradation Module

              

              

                

                  
Exclude low rainfall seasons, which are defined as growing seasons
           when rainfall levels were 15% or more below the long-run average.

                  

                    

                      
                      
                      
                    

                  

                  

                    
                    
                  

                  

                    
                    
                  

                

                

                  

                    

                      

                        
About

                        

                          
                        

                      

                      

                        

                          

                            
    
                              
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    This module categorizes the change in cropland health across Syria over the past decade, 
           specifically comparing three vegetation and soil health indicators measured during 
           the early conflict years (2012/2013 to 2017/2018) to measurements during past four 
           growing seasons (2018/2019 to 2022/2023).
    
                              
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    Additional information about the cropland in each hexagon is also
           included when selecting a hexagon, including crop type (winter/summer/both), 
           cropland water source (rainfed/irrigated/mix), and cropland activity level
           (fully active/partially active/etc.).
    
                              
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    Above the sub-district map on the upper-left hand corner, there is a
           toggle to visualize calculations that exclude and include low rainfall
           seasons, which generates a set of indicators calculated during “normal”
           rainfall conditions and another set of indicators calculated using 
           the entire dataset.
    
                              
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Step 1: Select a sub-district of interest by clicking on the map

                

                

                  
Step 2: Select a hexagon within that sub-district by clicking on the map
                    and find cropland health indicators and additional cropland
                    details at the bottom of the screen.

                

              

              

                

                  

                

                

                  

                

              

              

              

                

                  

                  

                  

                  
                  
                    
                    Full Data
                  
                

                

                  

                

              

              
              

              

            

            

              
Welcome to the Syria Water Harvesting Module!

              

                

                  
Select Province, District, and Subdistrict in the main panel,
               then select Suitability layer, Weights, and Thresholds in
               the Right Side Controlbar (click on grid icon to open). Click fetch button to view
               subdistrict raster map.