Chattisgharh,” The rice bowl” of India mainly practices rain-fed agriculture( 72 per cent of agriculture ¹) and hence the need to monitor the agriculture stress induced by several factors, such as shortage of water, overuse of pesticides etc is of prime importance.

Passive microwave sensors provide soil moisture globally at a coarser spatial resolution whereas active microwave sensors have higher spatial but low temporal resolution (2–4 weeks). Using soil moisture data directly from any of these sensors will have compromised spatial or temporal resolution. Satyukt Analytics Pvt Ltd has developed an innovative methodology which merges active and passive microwave data to obtain soil moisture data of high spatiotemporal resolution. Some of the applications where this high-resolution soil moisture data would be useful are:

• • Optimal irrigation in farms
  • Improved flood risk estimation
  • Monitor agricultural drought in near real time
  • Likely crop Yield
  • Irrigation Management
  • Improved weather forecast
  • Analyze the impact of an irrigation project
  • Automatic billing of farm based on the actual irrigation

1. http://agriportal.cg.nic.in/PortEn/Default.aspx