Released September 21, 2011
Organic agriculture provides healthy food and protects the environment by practising methods that avoid the widespread dissemination of chemicals. European Space Agency is now helping to develop the use of satellite images for certifying crops as organic.
Products can be labelled 'organic' only if they are produced according to a set of standards, undergo an evaluation and pass a yearly inspection. Since organic and conventional crops are treated differently, their characteristics are also different.
--continued on spaceref.com, http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=34716
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