Earth’s climate has changed throughout history. The climate is changing drastically now than at any point in history, mainly because of the anthropogenic activities ¹². Living and coping the impacts of the most debated issue of climate change is no longer a choice but is essential for survival. Climate change is growing as a global concern because it affects most sectors and prominently agriculture. As agriculture forms the backbone of the Indian economy, climate change analysis over the agriculture sector helps to tackle the unprecedented challenges posed by changing the climate.

Understanding climate change is the key to cope up with it. Climate change induced by both hydrologic and anthropogenic activities alters the Earth’s energy and water budget, near-surface climate, agro hydrological parameters, and many other parameters. Hence modelling agro-hydrological variables such as soil moisture, evapotranspiration, vegetation indices, etc in near real-time can be beneficial to model climate changes and foretell extreme events. Agro hydrological variables due to its inherent memory can “remember” extreme climatic events long after the conditions responsible for the anomaly is forgotten by the atmosphere, is a key aspect of land-atmosphere interactions and hence can predict climate changes.

 Satyukt analytics expert in microwave remote sensing is able to predict analyze these agro-hydrological parameters and can predict these changes well in advance. This would help farmers to cope up with the climate changes without compromising on yield.

1. https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/
2. https://www.edf.org/climate/why-you-need-care-about-climate-change-now