The CbM developed at the time when the Commission focused on legislating the performance-based CAP.
Only a single, early, CbM document achieved technical guidance status; all later JRC technical developments were published as voluntary methodology, technical report or tool.

Technical Guidance

Technical discussion documents

• WikiCAP: DS-CDP-2017-03 Discussion document on the introduction of monitoring to substitute OTSC JRC108353.pdf 5,031 kB
• WikiCAP: DS-CDP-2018-18 Second discussion document on the introduction of monitoring to substitute OTSC: rules for processing applications in 2018-2019 JRC112913.pdf 3,783 kB

WikiCAP: DS-CDP-2018-17 technical guidance on the decision to go for substitution of OTSC by monitoring 2018 JRC112918_published.pdf 1,966 kB

The voluntary CbM QA methodology

IMPORTANT: Despite the file names that hold "TG",  this methodology never reached Technical Guidance status (in contrast to LPIS QA) because the intended article was not introduced in the regulatory acts.

• WikiCAP: Checks by Monitoring Quality Assurance; development activities 2022 JRC128276_01.pdf 1,146 kB
• WikiCAP: CbM quality assurance; document set v1_2 2021 , a voluntary methodology proposed for 2020 and 2021
  • Inspection methodology 2021 v1_2 TG_CbMQA_1_2_11062021.pdf 1,589 kB
  • Annexes 2021 v1_2 TG_CbMQA_1_2_annexes.zip 4,121 kB
  • Presentation on multiple scheme conditions CbMQA_Step2_multiple_Schemes.pdf  292 kB
• WikiCAP: CbM quality assurance: draft document set v1_1  (for joint development) 2020
  • Inspection methodology 2020 v1_1 TG_CbMQA_1_1.pdf 1,676 kB
  • Annexes 2020  v1_1 TG_CbMQA_1_1_annexes.zip 4,512 kB
• WikiCAP: Checks by Monitoring quality inspection: EU requirements and  methodology - technical note 2020 CbMQA_DD_1_1.pdf 1,056 kB

Technical reports

• Original 2023: Use of geotagged photographs to evidence Land Cover and Land Use across EU policies JRC135007_Geotag_report_V5_Final.pdf 5,161 kB
• WikiCAP: Geodata and technologies for a greener agriculture in Europe 2023 JRC132383_jrc132383_final_05042023.pdf 3,681 kB
• WikiCAP: Key CbM concepts Conceptual basis of checks by monitoring; a partial revision of the earlier technical discussions 2022 JRC127678_final.pdf 1,716 kB
• WikiCAP: Documenting a CbM implementation; a structured template for documenting agricultural land monitoring systems 2022 JRC130662_final.pdf 2,121 kB
• WikiCAP: Proposed workflow for optimization of land monitoring systems; Copernicus Sentinel time series analysis within the Checks by Monitoring framework 2022 JRC130659_final.pdf 4,403 kB
• WikiCAP: Collection of Methods for Data Analysis; from Signal Selection to Marker Detection 2022 JRC130244_collection_of_methods_for_data_analysis_19sep2022.pdf 2,866 kB
• WikiCAP: Progress on Assessing the Validity of the Feature of Interest 2020 JRC123711_foi_assessment_final22.pdf 9,578 kB
• JRC publications repository:  Planet HHR Time Stacks tests in the 2019 crop season 2020 JRC121118.pdf 2,804 kB
• JRC publications repository: Applicability limits of Sentinel-2 data compared to higher resolution imagery 2019 JRC115564.pdf 2,721 kB
• WikiCAP: DS-CDP-2018-18 second discussion document on the introduction of monitoring to substitute OTSC: rules for processing applications in 2018-2019 2018 JRC112913.pdf 3,783 kB
• WikiCAP: DS-CDP-2017-03: discussion document on the introduction of monitoring to substitute OTSC 2017 JRC108353.pdf 5,031 kB

Software tools

• CbM QA template repository for v1_1 and v1_2 in the registry
• Signal Analyses for Land Monitoring Systems SALMS R-package can be found on jrc-cbm.readthedocs.io
• Open source software tools for parcel processing of the Sentinel data streams can be found on our github.com page