Irrigation losses: Satyukt’s AET product to rescue

Evapotranspiration (ET) is one of the ways in which land and atmosphere interact with each other. It is the collective process of evaporation from the soil and transpiration from plants. Estimating evapotranspiration loss and crop-water requirement can be beneficial in identifying the loss and can hence help in reducing irrigation loss. With the recent...

Evapotranspiration and precision irrigation

Evapotranspiration is the process by which water is transferred from the land to the atmosphere by evaporation from the soil and other surfaces and by transpiration from plants. Estimating evapotranspiration loss and crop-water requirement can be beneficial in identifying the loss and can hence help in precision irrigation. With the recent advancements in remote...

High spatio-temporal resolution soil moisture : A welcome change

 India has witnessed many natural disasters like floods, landslides, cyclones, forest fires, earthquakes, drought, etc.  To comprehend risks due to such disasters, it is necessary to integrate satellite and field-based observations and to work towards risk reduction principles. Satellites provide synoptic observations of the natural disasters at regular intervals that helps in better gearing...

“VATI” updates: Upload the farm details, and analyse the crop health

First published on October 11, 2018 Many times, the spatiotemporal variation of yield is observed in the same agriculture land because of the variation in soil structure and properties. The land-atmosphere interactions responsible for these variations can be modeled and analyzed to predict crop-water requirement, crop health and agricultural yield. The underlying parameters(agrohydrological parameters)...

Monitoring Crop health using microwave remote sensing

First published on November 15, 2018 Crop health is dependent on Agro-hydrological factors such as soil moisture, soil type, Rainfall, evapotranspiration etc. With the emergence of satellite sensors, these parameters that influence the health of the crops can be monitored and analyzed in near real time. Detecting how these parameters vary over time helps...

Farmers in dilemma, as dry spell over Bihar shows no sign of withdrawal

According to reports by IMD, Bihar has been witnessing deficiency of rainfall from the past seven years with an increasing number of dry days. . The abnormal pattern of rainfall may affect the agrarian economy of the state adversely as agriculture generates nearly 24.84% of the State Domestic Product. As water remains one of...

Surface mines in Rajasthan can be identified using remote sensing

First published on October 27, 2018 Rajasthan with 79 (Out of these, 57 minerals are being currently mined) different types of major and minor minerals is a leading producer of Zinc, Feldspar, Wollastonite, silver, Rock phosphate, Gypsum, Red ochre. While industrial mining has significant financial importance and usually follows legal procedures for mining exploitation...