Satellite imagery shows how the Earth’s surface looks from above. It depicts the Earth’s surface at various spectral, temporal, radiometric, and increasingly detailed spatial resolutions, as is determined by each collection system’s sensing device and the orbital path of its reconnaissance platform. Satellites and the images they provide differ because they are used for...
Major challenges in the agriculture in India Plant health may not be in the news as much as climate change and other environmental issues going on in the world right now, but it can have a much more significant impact on people’s lives than most people realize. Humans have fought plant diseases and pests...
The deficit of water in the soil, causing vegetation water stress, is an important factor that negatively affects crop production. So, determining water stress, and appropriate irrigation scheduling are simultaneously important according to the crop’s nature to water stress at different growth stages. Irrigation scheduling is efficiently required to maximize the crop yield and...
Soil is a conglomeration of solids, liquid and air components. The solids consist of organic matter, minerals and micro-organisms. Liquid mainly comprise the water held between the solids and air comprises gaseous components released by various microbial processes, recycling of nutrients and exchange of gases with atmosphere occurring in the soil medium. Soil forms...
Soil moisture is defined as the water held in the pores of soil and this forms the water reserve available to quench the crop’s water requirement. Rainfall being the primary source of water, fills up the soil reserve which can extend from half meter to one meter in depth from surface or even deeper...
Earth’s climate has changed throughout the history. The climate is changing drastically now than at any point in history, mainly because of the anthropogenic activities. Living and coping the impacts of the most debated issue of climate change is no longer a choice but is essential for the survival. Climate change is growing as...
First published on December 11, 2018 Water is one of the most intrinsic element of the economy. Without access to clean water, almost all industry would suffer most prominently agriculture. Water scarcity is growing as a national concern as agriculture forms the backbone of the Indian economy and also plays a crucial role in...
First published on October 20, 2018 With the increase in population, demand for food is also increasing. The critical challenges in attaining food security include the adverse climatic changes and diminishing agricultural yield due to several factors such as shortage of water, pests, and other diseases. The prediction of crop yield in near real-time...
Soil 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 has major implications for seasonal forecasting. The land-atmosphere interactions can be modeled and analyzed to predict climate or simulate water budget. After precipitation, a certain amount of...
Cauvery, the one known for its bitter water dispute between the riparian states extends over states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, and the Union territory of Puducherry. The river is facing pollution right from where it originates — the Kodagu district, where it is also honored as the Ganga of the South . The...