Greenhouses baseline and damage assessment in Lebanon

Two new datasets have been published on the Agro-informatics Platform within the food security channel. The new data provides information on the greenhouse baseline and damage assessment in Lebanon.

The greenhouse baseline data refers to the period before the 2023-2024 conflict and was generated using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery with a resolution of 10 meters. The overall accuracy of remote sensing analysis was 94 percent. A visual interpretation using VHR (WorldView-2 [50 cm], WorldView-3 [30cm] and Google Earth) was undertaken in four governorates. The map represents the distribution of greenhouse areas in a hexagonal grid.

The damage assessment data depicts the impact of the 2023–2024 conflict on greenhouses. In addition to the remote sensing analysis, visual interpretation using very high-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery from WorldView-2 (50 cm) and WorldView-3 (30 cm) was undertaken by comparing images from before October 2023 and 2024 in four of the most conflict-affected governorates. The map shows the distribution of damaged greenhouse areas using a hexagonal grid for the two visual interpretations. Two independent assessments were conducted with a difference of less than 3 percent between visually interpreted points and delineated greenhouses.

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