Given strong year-to-year variability, increasing competition for natural resources, and climate change
impacts on agriculture, monitoring global crop and natural vegetation conditions is highly relevant,
particularly in food insecure areas. Data from remote sensing image series at high temporal and low
spatial resolution can help to assist in this monitoring as they provide key information in near-real time
over large areas. The SPIRITS software, presented in this paper, is a stand-alone toolbox developed for
environmental monitoring, particularly to produce clear and evidence-based information for crop production
analysts and decision makers. It includes a large number of tools with the main aim of extracting
vegetation indicators from image time series, estimating the potential impact of anomalies on crop
production and sharing this information with different audiences. SPIRITS offers an integrated and
flexible analysis environment with a user-friendly graphical interface, which allows sequential tasking
and a high level of automation of processing chains. It is freely distributed for non-commercial use and
extensively documented.