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Production
Estimates and Crop Assessment Division |
March 31, 2004
USDA/FAS assessed crop conditions within the Maize Triangle during the last week of February, 2004. Below are crop condition pictures from the trip.
Northern Gauteng, Northwest, and Mpumalanga Provinces
The crop tour route is shown below. The first image is the crop tour route overlaid on a crop density map derived from Landsat imagery. The second image is the crop tour route over a relative yield model from the FEWS project. The crop tour confirmed that the relative yield model closely reflected the crop conditions on the ground.
Figure 1. Crop Tour Route Over a Crop Density Map (derived from Landsat Imagery)
Figure 2. Crop Tour Route Over a Relative Yield Map