Oilseedrape is a major cash crop in Europe, often processed to oil that is used as a fuel additive. For the perspective from space, this means that characteristic yellow flowers are visible depending on weather and latitude from early April to late May. This true colour image near Bełżyce in Eastern Poland shows how this flowering event is a special time for crop classification and field boundary detection: for a few weeks the two main winter crops, winter cereals and oilseed rape are easy to separate. In between winter crops, fields used for spring crops are still mostly bare soil after sowing in late March or early April.
Agricultural parcel delineation is one of the most important applications of Sentinel-2 imagery in the framework of agricultural monitoring, often aided by deep learning algorithms. This allows checking of farmer subsidy claims, estimation of eventual fertilizer needs and optimal planning of machinery use. Crop classification is also an essential part of agricultural monitoring, both from the perspective of controlling subsidy claims and estimating yields. The ESA WorldCereal project uses Sentinel satellite data among others to provide seasonal global cropland and crop type maps at 10 m resolution which are also accessible through openEO.
We now have a pointless open area of field that is of no importance and is never visited.It was one of the best maps we had and the same for years.At some we have to let the old stuff be and move on not constantly tinkering with things that were fine while ignoring things which are so broken.
Many have been saying for years that the maps should have some relationship to the era of the vehicles involved or that we should have two divisions in WT to separate the eras even if its along a vague line.
I agree. Old fields of poland was great. Now it is just large, open fields that you have to rush through to get to cover.
Sadly, gaijin seems to have taken to trying to please the CoD players who dont like flanking and just want lanes to go down and fight cqc.
Fields of Poland is a ground forces map, using the same map as the Poland Map. It was added in Update 1.59 "Flaming Arrows". The difference between this map and the Poland map is that the battle area has been significantly increased; whereas on Poland the battle area is restricted to just that of the town and a small section of the surrounding area, on this map the battle area is nearly the full map (seen to the right).
The main town and surrounding area is familiar from the Poland map. The rest of the map is made up of mostly empty fields, with hills and sections of wooded area to provide cover from long range engagements. There are also small collections of farm building dotted around the map. The map is focused around long range combat, with players able to "snipe" each other from extreme range, due to the open nature of the map. The town area still provides an opportunity for close quarters combat, but the player must cross much more open ground in order to get there.
In AB point A will be in a small cluster of farm buildings in the north west of the map, B will be in a small cluster of farm buildings on the southern edge of the lake, and C is in the middle of the town (slightly to the west of the centre).In RB point A will be in a small cluster of farm buildings in the north west of the map, B will be in a small cluster of farm buildings on the southern edge of the lake, and C is in the middle of the town (slightly to the west of the centre).In SB point A will be in a small cluster of farm buildings in the north west of the map, B will be in a small cluster of farm buildings on the southern edge of the lake, and C is in the middle of the town (slightly to the west of the centre).
In AB the capture point is in a small cluster of farm buildings in the north west of the map.In RB the capture point is in a small cluster of farm buildings in the north west of the map.In SB the capture point is in a small cluster of farm buildings in the north west of the map.
In AB the capture point is in a small cluster of farm buildings on the southern edge of the lake.In RB the capture point is in a small cluster of farm buildings on the southern edge of the lake.In SB the capture point is in a small cluster of farm buildings on the southern edge of the lake.
In AB the capture point is in the middle of the town (slightly to the west of the centre).In RB the capture point is in the middle of the town (slightly to the west of the centre).In RB the capture point is in the middle of the town (slightly to the west of the centre).
In AB the capture points are located in a small cluster of farm buildings in the north west of the map, and a small cluster of farm buildings on the southern edge of the lake.In RB the capture points are located in a small cluster of farm buildings in the north west of the map, and a small cluster of farm buildings on the southern edge of the lake.In SB the capture points are located in a small cluster of farm buildings in the north west of the map, and a small cluster of farm buildings on the southern edge of the lake.
Farm fields of varying shapes and sizes cover many rural areas of Europe. The very narrow, rectangular plots in this photograph caught the eye of an astronaut as the International Space Station passed over west-central Poland. A tributary of the Oder River, the Warta River flows past the town of the same name. (Note that north is to the right in this photo.)
Damming of the Warta River in the 1980s created one of the largest reservoirs in the Lodz region of Poland. The dam was intended for agricultural irrigation, recreation, and for flood mitigation in the Warta River Valley. The upper end of the reservoir appears in the lower right of the image.
The rural town of Warta, an agricultural community established in the mid-1200s, is home to many small, privately owned farms that mostly produce grains. Research suggests that there are old historical roots for those long and thin agricultural sections.
Astronaut photograph ISS048-E-7144 was acquired on June 26, 2016, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using an 800 millimeter lens and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 48 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Sara Schmidt, GeoControl Systems, JETS Contract at NASA-JSC.
The oil industry in Poland began at Bbrka Field in 1853 [citation needed], followed by the first refinery in 1854. Poland was the third most productive region in the world in 1900. It now has only a small, mostly state-owned component, with production from its Permian Basin in the west, small and very old fields in the Carpathians in the south, and offshore in the Baltic Sea. For natural gas the country is almost completely dependent on legacy pipelines from the former Soviet Union.
Production of significant quantities of natural gas or petroleum from shale or tight (low permeability) reservoirs is in large part dependent on the social acceptance and technical and commercial viability of hydraulic fracturing. As of 2013 only 3% of the Poles opposed fracking.[1] Leasing for unconventional shale plays in Poland began in 2007.[2] But, as of 2013, the results of exploration efforts, as well as government regulation,[3] have been disappointing, and estimates of the size of the total resource have been substantially reduced.[2] Data indicates a substantial resource, but the permeability of the rocks, combined with the relative complexity of the faulting in some areas, have made success elusive. In 2013, the Energy Information Administration, a U.S. agency, estimated that 146 trillion cubic feet of shale gas and 1.8 billion barrels (29010^6 m3) of tight oil could be economically recovered from the shales in Poland using present technology.[2] However, an estimate published in March 2013 of recoverable shale gas reserves by the Polish Geological Institute was 24.8 trillion cubic feet.[4] It remains to be seen whether the lack of reservoir permeability can be overcome.
Poland has been dependent on a Soviet era gas pipeline system which brings in only expensive Russian gas. Power generation has been based on Poland's extensive reserves of coal, principally lignite. Development of a domestic gas industry to replace Russian imports is highly desirable as would the use of gas to retire or convert coal fired generation plants. Drilling for shale resources began in June 2010. But, as of July 2013, none of the wells which have been completed have produced gas in commercial quantities. ConocoPhillips, which purchased the most prospective geological area from Lane Energy Poland, was able to produce gas and oil in sustainable volumes. But, their costs were too high to justify the project. ExxonMobil,[5] which positioned itself in the Lublin Basin, a highly faulted area, could never get a sustainable test, despite spending huge sums on geological research. Chevron also stubbed its toe in the Lublin Basin area, after receiving some bad geological advice. Talisman Energy also failed, and Marathon Oil drilled where there was little/no prospective shale resource. All have pulled out, leaving the Polish Oil and Gas Company as the prime company in the shale gas and tight oil plays.[3]
In the absence of regulation acceptable to the drillers who have the technology and resources to engage in extensive exploration, as of 2013, the extent of the tight oil and shale gas resource in Poland remains unknown, although it is believed by some informed observers that it has the potential to supply the needs of Poland for hundreds of year.[1] However, using current technology, it is considered likely that it will be more of a national security mandate than a commercial venture any time soon.
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