Crop condition assessment program

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The Crop condition assessment program (CCAP) is developed and maintained by Statistics Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada through the National Land and Water Information Service (NLWIS) and National Agroclimate Information Service (NAIS) has partnered with Statistics Canada to provide this product free of charge to the public-at-large.

CCAP is providing weekly cropland and pasture monitoring throughout the growing season. A first web-based application allows a weekly monitoring of the regions of western Canada and northern Great Plains of the USA. In spring 2007, the Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis (RSGA) section within the Agriculture Division released a new version of the application, monitoring the whole Canadian agriculture area on 10 days periods. In 2008, the application is now updated on a 7-day cycle, and also covers the northern half of the United States.

Beginning in 1987, CCAP has provided a useful range of products to the agriculture industry and the farm community. These include satellite images, thematic maps, vegetation index graphs and tabular data of current and historical cropland and pasture conditions.

Demands by private industry, grain marketing agencies, agri-business, and governments to produce accurate, timely production forecasts well in advance of statistical survey estimates, have encouraged CCAP to include an experimental spring wheat yield forecast for western Canada as a useful tool for making management decisions.