Checks by monitoring Quality Assurance: Development activities
2022
LUKETIC Natasa | BORIO Daniele | DEVOS Wim | SEDANO SANTAMARIA Fernando
From early 2020 until the end of 2021, JRC’s GTCAP team developed the checks by monitoring quality assurance (CbM QA) methodology to address concerns expressed by the Member States (MS) and to follow a recommendation of the European Court of Auditors. During the two years, GTCAP set up dedicated activities to elaborate and frame this effort; these are described in this report. Interaction of the CbM expert community was ensured by organizing six plenary meetings, a dozen bilateral technical meetings with the MSs and one webinar. This collaborative approach brought together JRC scientists, MS quality managers, processing experts and DG AGRI officers to agree on purpose and scope of the development. The meetings also investigated the automated processing of the available Sentinel datasets in CbM as well as this data’s potential for inspecting, testing and assessing the automated results. The resulting CbM QA methodology offers a set of inspection tools and operational methods that streamline efforts to assist MSs to assure the robustness, transparency, reproducibility and veracity of their CbM systems. At the end of this report, we provide feedback from the first experimental implementation of the proposed CbM QA methodology provided by 5 MSs along with some proposals for improvements to accommodate all implemented CbM options. This document summarizes the activities and progress achieved in 2020 and 2021 by the GTCAP team on the CbM QA framework.
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